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Kilkenny Union Workhouse Paupers' Remains

Herein lie the remains of 970 famine victims discovered at this Workhouse site in 2005. They were paupers of the Kilkenny Union Workhouse whose deaths occurred between August 1847 and March 1851. Their names were not recorded [...]

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