Kilkenny Union Workhouse

Kilkenny Union Workhouse was a workhouse established in 1842 in Kilkenny, Ireland. The fifth-largest workhouse in Ireland at the time of its opening, it had a capacity for 1,300 inmates. During the Great Famine, it became severely overcrowded and housed over 4,300 people by 1851. In 2005–2006, a mass grave of at least 970 people, dating from 1847–1851, was discovered on the grounds of the institution. The workhouse was disestablished in the early 1920s, and the building has since served as a hospital, a depot, and as part of a shopping centre.

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