The site once held a prisoner-of-war camp and a cholera hospital before being converted into a Victorian workhouse, archaeologists said. Screengrab from Cotswold Archaeology's Facebook post Along the ...

Five sets of historical, skeletal human remains consistent with the workhouse era - dating from 1841 to 1918 - have been recovered at the former site of the Mother and Baby Institution in Tuam. The ...

An Irish historian has uncovered a workhouse register dating back to the Irish potato famine in 1847 which brutally highlights the horrors of the Great Hunger. Gerard McCarthy, who produced a small ...