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Workhouse burial ground with grave markers dating from the mid nineteenth century. Partly demolished rubble stone wall, with strap wrought-iron gate between dressed limestone gate posts with ashlar l...

Attached multiple-bay two-storey building, completed 1841, formerly the infirmary and idiot's wards of the Cork Union Workhouse which adjoined the dining hall and chapel located to the north. Four two...

Pair of detached fourteen-bay two-storey workhouse buildings, built c.1860, now in use as school, blocks connected by ashlar stone wall with single-storey pitched roof former dining hall, and with two...

Detached irregular-plan multiple-bay three-storey former workhouse, built 1879, having full-height single-bay projections and three-bay three-storey extension with single-storey block to front (south)...

Former union workhouse graveyard on rectangular-plan, in use c. 1842-1922, containing unmarked graves of victims of the Great Famine. Now out of use. Restored 2006. Surrounded by modern rubble stone b...

Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c.1890, with 'VR' royal cipher and raised crown motif. Set into (rebuilt) rubble limestone wall. Located outside the former Union Workhouse now St. Mary's Hospital (15...

Attached multiple-bay dormer two-storey limestone former workhouse, built between 1839-41, comprising five-bay east-facing central entrance block with slightly breakfronted gabled end bays, joined to ...

Attached multiple-bay single-storey building, built 1841, formerly the dining hall and chapel of the Cork Union Workhouse with single-storey structures set perpendicular to east and west of north end ...

Detached seven-bay two-storey with dormer attic former workhouse master's house, dated 1841, having gable-fronted breakfront end bays to front (south-west). Gabled-bay dormer windows to central bays ...

Remains of Castlecomer Union Workhouse complex, built 1853-4, including: (i) Pair of twelve-bay three-storey blocks with five-bay single-storey perpendicular connecting range to centre forming T-shap...

Freestanding former workhouse, built 1843, now local hospital. Eighteen-bay two-storey front with two- and three-bay three-storey projecting wings. Projecting single-storey gabled porch with single-...

Detached U-plan twenty-one bay three-storey former workhouse, built c.1890, with three-bay entrance breakfront, advanced two-bay end blocks and multiple-bay wing to rear. Hipped roofs (undergoing re-r...

Detached twelve-bay three-storey former workhouse school, built c.1860, having eight-bay breakfront to front (north) elevation, flanked by multiple-bay four-storey twentieth-century extensions on eith...

Detached five-bay two-storey union workhouse "Front Block", built 1842-4; dated 1843; opened 1845, on a H-shaped plan with single-bay two-storey gabled advanced end bays. Renovated, 1990-1, to accomm...

Detached multiple-bay five-storey mill, built c.1805, and multiple-bay five-storey addition, built c.1820. Later in use as workhouse, now disused. Rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings. Remai...

Detached former H-plan multiple-bay two-storey former workhouse, built 1841. Now irregular in plan, altered, partly demolished and divided into three sections, four-bay two-storey house to north-east...

Detached two-storey E-plan entrance block to former workhouse, opened 1841, having gabled end bays and double-height three-bay arcaded entrance lobby, box-bay to west gable, single- and two-storey add...

Detached fifteen-bay two-storey former workhouse, built in 1841, with projecting two-bay three-storey double gable-fronted end bays and return to rear. Pitched slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater go...

Detached multiple-bay two- and three-storey former workhouse, built 1841. Comprising of fifteen-bay two-storey central block, with paired three-bay three-storey gabled blocks flanking to north and so...

Pair of square-profile ashlar limestone piers, erected c. 1840, having carved caps and spur stone. Sweeping walls terminating in lower pair of piers. Roughly dressed limestone masonry walls with lim...