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Carlow Union Workhouse
Carlow Union Workhouse
Carlow Union Workhouse was constructed in the years c1842-1844 on a site on the Kilkenny Road, Carlow. It was designed to accommodate 800 inmates and cost £9,000 to build. It was demolished in the 1960's. This photograph was taken by Jim Banbury for the Office of Public Works c.1955.
Dept of the Environment & Local Government Photographic Unit
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Soup Depot, Cork
Soup Depot, Cork
This is an engraving that was used in The Illustrated London News 13 March, 1847. It shows a crowd at the central soup depot on Barrack Street in Cork during the famine. This depot was the first establishment of the kind opened in Ireland for the distribution of food to the poor. It is believed that approximately 1300 poor persons were relieved here daily. http://adminstaff.vassar.edu/sttaylor/FAMINE/index.html
Views of the Famine: Vassar College NY USA
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Dunshaughlin Poor Law Union - 16.10.1847 - Inmate Pay for Cleaning
Dunshaughlin Poor Law Union - 16.10.1847 - Inmate Pay for Cleaning
The inmates of the house refused to clean the privies and were not obliged to do so. The Master was authorised to employ some persons and pay them 10 shillings or 63 cent for this cleaning task. This is an infrequent illustration of the inmates wielding some control on their day to day routine.
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Map of Milford Union, towns and electoral divisions
Map of Milford Union, towns and electoral divisions
Portion of 1847 map of the Commissioners of Public Works, for County Donegal, showing Milford Union its towns and electoral divisions. Scale 1:253,440
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Map of the Poor Law Unions of County Donegal
Map of the Poor Law Unions of County Donegal
Map showing the way in which Donegal was divided up into Poor Law Unions. Milford Union has been shaded in.
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Digging for Potatoes during Irish Famine
Digging for Potatoes during Irish Famine
A Woman digs for potatoes in vain during the Irish Famine c1845-1849. The Potato Crop was totally devastated during these years due to a virulent disease in the potato. Members of the family look on in despair or search the earth with bare hand in hope of finding a healthy crop. The first outbreak of the disease in the potato crop was first reported in County Carlow September 1845. This illustration is taken from the Illustrated London News 1849.
Carlow County Library
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State of the workhouse, Minutes (a)
State of the workhouse, Minutes (a)
Letter quoted in minutes of Milford board of guardians from George Wilkinson, Poor Law Architect. Letter deals with the condition of the workhouse building and Wilkinson states that only plaster and dash could stop the damp. He believed the cost of the plaster would be no more than £100.
Copyright of Donegal County Archives. No reproduction without permission
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Bodyke Evictions (Clare Co.)
Bodyke Evictions (Clare Co.)
The land war began in the early 1880's, when tenants began agitating for fair treatment and land rights. This image is taken from the Bodyke evictions in Co. Clare where one of the most important landwars in the country took place. These evictions and the stand that the community took against them assisted in the downfall of the landlord system in Ireland.
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Education of children in the workhouse
Education of children in the workhouse
Extract from the visiting committee's book detailing their responses to various set questions about the running of the workhouse, with comments on the education the children in the workhouse are receiving.
Copyright of Donegal County Archives Service. No reproduction without permission
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Milford Statistics
Milford Statistics
Extract from the minutes of Milford Workhouse with answers to a set of question about acreage and land-holding patterns in Milford.
Copyright of Donegal County Archives Service. No reproduction without permission