Museum
Donaghmore Famine Workhouse Museum
Rathdowney, County Laois
An 1853 workhouse near Rathdowney, kept as it was, dormitories still standing and an agricultural museum in the yard.
This evocative museum is housed in a restored workhouse originally built in the midlands during the early 1850s.
- Where
- Rathdowney, County Laois
- Address
- Dunacleggan
- Official site
- donaghmoremuseum.ie
- Map
- Directions · OpenStreetMap
- Before you go
- Opening times, prices and access change. Check with the place itself.
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