Kells Union Workhouse Paupers' Graveyard

Erected

to the memory of the poor

interred here

during the operation

of the

English Poor Law System.

1838 - 1921.

R. I. P.

In the immediate aftermath

of the Great ‘Famine’, this mass

burial place was opened in 1851 for

the poor people of the Kells District.

Their memory challenges us ...