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Donaghmore Workhouse was built to house the most desperate people of County Laois. Paid for by a tax on local property owners, the workhouse was deliberately ...
Donaghmore Famine Workhouse Museum is a unique attraction in Co. Laois, Ireland and aims to tell the story of the families who lived and died within the Famine ...
Donaghmore Workhouse & Agricultural Museum
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Museum in the Republic of Ireland
Address: Dunacleggan, Donaghmore, Co. Laois, R32 PC58, Ireland
Hours: Open ⋅ Closes 5 PM
Phone: +353 86 829 6685
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This evocative museum is housed in a restored workhouse originally built in the midlands during the early 1850s. It is situated in Donaghmore, near Portlaoise ...
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Showing us and another family around the workhouse and agricultural museum. Even though they were technically closed! Great value at only €5 per adult! Great ...
Duration: 9:43
Posted: Sep 19, 2016
Posted: Sep 19, 2016
The new Donaghmore workhouse occupied an 6-acre site to the north-west of Donaghmore, and was designed to hold 400 inmates. Its construction cost £4,750 plus £ ...
The Donaghmore Workhouse was built to house the most desperate people of county Laois. Mandated by the Poor Law Relief Act of 1838, the workhouse was paid for ...
Situated between the M7 and M8, near the town of Rathdowney, the Donaghmore Workhouse and Agricultural Museum is worth leaving the motorway for if you want to ...
The Donaghmore Poor Law Union was officially declared in 1850. The Workhouse was opened in 1853 at a cost of £5,525. It was built to house a maximum capacity of ...
It is one of only a few largely complete, and partly restored, former workhouses. Our local ones in KILKEEL and DOWNPATRICK are largely gone. This gives us an ...