Ulster

Ulster Information

Ulster is the northern province of Ireland. The province itself is actually two countries, with 33% of the province making up the Republic of Ireland, the other 66% make up Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom. Although Ulster lost the second largest amount of people by province in the Famine, there is a common consensus that compared to the rest of Ireland, it was more tranquil and prosperous. This was due to an Ulster-specific law by the Government to aid the people there, known as "Tenant Right"; this compensated tenants for making improvements to their land, allowing many to survive with government aid.

Counties of Ulster

Antrim

Plaguey Hill at Friars Bush Cemetery, South Belfast (memorial cenotaph) 800
Belfast Workhouse Fever Hospital (now offices)

Armagh

Shankill Graveyard (unmarked) and Graveyard attached to Lurgan Workhouse (now replaced by Lurgan hospital)
Tannaghmore Gardens, (tree sculpture memorial)

Cavan

The Great Famine Exhibition, Cavan County Museum

Donegal

Doagh Famine Village, Doagh Island, Inishowen (visitor center and famine museum)
Dunfanaghy Workhouse

Down

Famine Commemoration, Albert Basin, Newry
Kilkeel Harbor, Newry- The Hannah Coffin ship that struck ice (unmarked 50 d.)

Fermanagh

Garvary Wood, (mass graves unmarked)
Enniskillen Workhouse (under refurbishment)
Paupers Famine Grave memorial at Cornagrade (for workhouse)
Famine Graves memorial at Irvinestown
Famine Pit memorial at St. Marys Church of Magheraculmoney, Ardess

Derry/Londonderry

Derry Workhouse, 400 d. reinterred at Ballyoan Cemetery, Waterside.

Monaghan

Carrickmacross Workhouse tours
Famine Graveyard, Clones

Tyrone

Paupers Grave, Cookstown Poor Law Union