Tour of the Workhouse site at St Finbarr's Hospital
18 Lúnasa, 6:30in - 8:30in
- meet just inside the entrance gates of St Finbarr’s Hospital
- Douglas Road
- Co. Corcaigh - Cathair
The Cork workhouse, which opened in December 1841, was an isolated place – built beyond the toll house and toll gates, which gave entry to the city and which stood just below the end of the wall of St. Finbarr’s Hospital in the vicinity of the junction of the Douglas and Ballinlough Roads. The Douglas Road workhouse was also one of the first of over 130 workhouses to be designed by the Poor Law Commissioners’ architect George Wilkinson.
free, 2 hours, on site tour, no booking required