3: BSW1 Famine graveyard

Speaker: Patsy McNultyFrom The Blackstack Way - Part 1 playlist.If you continue some 400 metres up Main street, you'll see a sign for the Famine graveyard, burial site of locals who died in the Great Famine of the 1840s. Next to it is Donegal hospital, former site of the workhouse where the poor of that famine were forced to go to feed themselves.  You’ll be walking straight out the N15 – please note that the last shop you’ll be passing for sometime is on your left, so stack up on water or energy bars. Carry on until you see Clarcam Park on the left and follow the Bluestack Way sign.  In our audio piece, Patsy McNulty tells us more about the hospital/workhouse and the graveyard. Please note it is signposted as the Famine graveyard although Patsy refers to it as the paupers' graveyard.