Photographed by Terry Ballard, Automation Librarian, Quinnipiac University in 2004

and Professor Robert Smart, Director of the Quinnipiac University Irish Program, in 2002.

Captions by Professor Robert Smart

The workhouse is located 3 miles to the East of downtown Cahirciveen. It was constructed to hold 800 "inmates," and began admitting them in October of 1846, at a time when the Famine was taking hold of the country. An excellent website about the workhouse can be seen at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/Cahirciveen/Cahirciveen.shtml.

View of east portico/wing

Center view, main entrance

Close-up, main entrance

Close up, east wing

Long shot, east wing

Long shot, interior, former dining room

Infants' room, rectangles indicates where the bunks were

West wing, close up

West wing, looking towards unmarked gravesite

West wing, entrance

Interior, 2nd floor fireplace/oven

Mass grave site, former exit (for the bodies?)

Interior shot (no floors) women's section