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Summary Visit to the Famine Graveyard at Loughlinstown Hospital.
The walk will be 5 KM and flat.
The hospital was formerly a workhouse, one of the 130 workhouses in the country in famine times. The Workhouse opened in 1841 and initally had 23 inmates. The workhouse population eventually increased to 1.200.
One graveyard has been covered over by a car park but one graveyard still exixts at the back of the former workhouse buildings now Loughlinstown hospital,
Description We will meet outside Shankill dart station at 10.30.am.
We will proceed out of that estate and cross onto Commons Road.
We will join the N11and use the overpass to cross over the N11 and enter the grounds of the hospital. We will review the Information panel installed by local historian Billy Byrne.
We will then proceed into the famine graveyard and review the history of the workhouse.
on leaving the grounds we will again use the overpass to safely cross the N11 and proceed along the road leading into Shankill Village.
We will have refreshments in Brady's Shankill ans return to Shankill fart station.
Terrain & River Crossings
No rivers, footpaths, one dirt track and graveyard fiels which may be mucky.
Gear Recommendations
Weather appropriate.
Meeting Point Shankill Dart station 10.30. a.m. Details/Link
