Cluain Eois, Co. Mhuineacháin: Clones Famine and Workhouse Graveyard

Cluain Eois, Co. Mhuineacháin
Clones, Co. Monaghan

'It would be impossible to exaggerate the awful destitution that exists in the
town of Clones and neighbourhood. No day passes but some victims of this
frightful calamity are committed to the grave.

The workhouse contains upwards of a hundred over the regulated number,
and most of them were all but starved before they obtained admission.
Their exhausted frames were then unable to bear the food doled out to
them, and hence they are, at this moment, dying in dozens'

Fermanagh Reporter – December 1846

These are the words etched in the memorial for the Famine and Workhouse dead in Clones. There are over 1000 souls buried in the small field above the meat packing plant that was once the location of the Workhouse.

It is still hard to believe that Ireland suffered through The Great Hunger...

That so many were lost...

 It is sobering and still so sad.