This was the childrens dormitary. Girls were at the near end and boys at the other. The two areas were separated by the central stairs and staff area. Like the adults the children slept on straw beds and the channel in the centre of the floor was for mopping up. The workhouse was in use from 1842 to 1921. Many died of cholera at the end of the famine. In one week in 1849 48 children died here.