Close-up of Mural, Union Street, Lurgan
Introduction
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Close-up of Mural, Union Street, Lurgan
Image: © P Flannagan Taken: 14 Oct 2007
This Mural is dedicated to all the men, women and children who lived, worked and died here, in very harsh times, in the mid 1840's during the famine in Ireland. There were 403 inmates. The Workhouse was opened to the poor of Lurgan in 1841. It became Lurgan and Portadown District Hospital in 1929.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.455271
Longitude
-6.337409