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1911 Census: house in Oberstown = work house?

oceanclub · 2018-05-11 21:06:40

I found someone in what looks like an institution in Oberstown: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Holmpatrick/Oberstown/109/ Looking at an OSI map for the period, it appears to be Balrothery Union workhouse? http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,719495,755886,11,9 (Now completely wiped from the map it…

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oceanclub

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I found someone in what looks like an institution in Oberstown:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Holmpatrick/Oberstown/109/

Looking at an OSI map for the period, it appears to be Balrothery Union workhouse?

http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,719495,755886,11,9

(Now completely wiped from the map it seems).

P.

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#2 11-05-2018 10:43pm

tabbey

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Yes, the return of paupers clearly labelled it as Balrothery union workhouse.

It opened with a designed capacity of 400 inmates,and the census return shows about 100 still.

Peter Higginbotham's website ( workhouses.org.uk ) tells us that it may have housed Belgian refugees during the Great War. Celbridge is better known for this use, but there were a number of workhouses used for this.

Driving past it some months ago, there was no sign of any remains.

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