Talk given by Margaret Hogan, on left, for Vintage week on the history of the workhouse. There are no markers for the 3,000 graves except this one erected by Violet Doolan who was the town librarian. The buildings in the background were the hospital section on the right and the small morgue in the centre.
The workhouse was known as gorm hill (or blue hill in english), because the staff wore blue uniforms. The graveyard was on a hill and it's contamination of the water supply may have been the cause of cholera outbreaks in 1849 and the 1860s.