The museum is located in the former womens’ workroom and houses the centre’s collection of artefacts. These range from the workhouse cart and enormous famine soup pots to the medicine bottles and cast-iron infirmary stove. Artefacts and personal objects can tell big stories, e.g. the pauper shoes we have discovered at Portumna. Nothing expresses the sadness of workhouse children like those reminders of tiny feet. Come and join us for a free tour of the Museum and form a picture of life in the 163 workhouses that operated in Ireland from the 1840s to the early 20th Century.

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Co. Galway – County