Bawnboy Workhouse, Co. Cavan, Ireland - A film of this sad place

[@COLEEN322]

buildings such as these should be preserved in the condition in which we look upon them today as a grim reminder of the daily struggle our ancestors had to endure,poverty was looked upon as a crime back then and were intended to humiliate and shame you into bettering your self,great video and great music also,rip to all the people born in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[@TomMcClean]

Agreed LN! Spot on comment. Best wishes from the Belfast Castlereagh hills.

[@TomMcClean]

Well done Philip for making this video. A grim place indeed! People need to know exactly what it was like for many innocents back then. Best wishes from the Belfast Castlereagh hills.

[@doiminiclfc00]

fair play to you. a tribute to the lost poor and broken. the people with no voice. gods strength to you and thank you for keeping the memory of the poor and nameless people who lived here. my mother was from east cork and poverty scarred her for life. there should be a memorial there with the names of those who went through its gates but that would have been lost when the celtic tiger and greed took over. a people who lose their history lose their soul thank you dermot

[@doiminiclfc00]

fair play to you for remembering the poor souls who went here. my mother was from east cork and poverty scarred her for life. a people who lose their history lose their soul. god bless you dermot

[@juliewilf123]

We visited here yesterday , Feb 2013 ,Wow the differences!!! In one way good, the ground & buildings have been cleared of vegetation , but I love how wild , sad & forgotten it looks in your video! Sadly the roof is gone in most places & its just totally unsafe to attempt the upstairs , in some places its fallen through Will be sharing this on FB , to complement the photographs we shot Thanks for sharing

[@eddiem2455]

I visited Bawnboy workhouse in September 1914 with my family,a great deal of work has been done to the buildings . Unfortunately the money has run out. The buildings have been made weatherproof up to a point. There is an air of great sadness. This MUST be preserved for future generations.

[@logibear8453]

visited bawnboy june 2014 the bawnboy workhouse so sad that families seperated within the confines of the biulding babies and toddlers taken from parents and workhouse where these children ended up god only knows

[@anthonygrochowski6513]

My mother went there in 1960-1961. Josephine McGovern from Corlough

[@PhilipMcKee]

@doimadude Well said!, many thanks for your comments... P

[@PhilipMcKee]

@padraigdolan1 Thanks for your comments Padraig. There is certainly a real palpable sense of sadness about the place, to this day... Philip

[@padraigdolan1]

My father Michael Dolan taught there when part of it was used as the technical school and he always said there was a sadness about the place. i remember exploring there as a child in the fifties and early sixties Padraig

[@anthonygrochowski6513]

padraig dolan my mother was there at that time and remembers your father teaching woodwork

[@childofgod6829]

Who is this singer hes fantastic

[@johnplays100]

Singer is Damien Dempsey.

[@PhilipMcKee]

Id love to see the pics you tuck. Feel free to friend me on FB or share a link to a web album. Philip

[@trishboyle9749]

Exactly like Portumna workhouse

[@1948DESMOND]

bawnboy is probably spelled BAN BUI in proper irish and should be pronounced as BAWN BWEE which means WHITE YELLOW. OR even yellow white.which trips off the tongue quicker.

[@MrJohnsolomon]

Actually It should be Badhún Buí. Which means 'yellow enclosure'. And, as in many other languages, the adjective came after the noun. Since my mother is a native of Bawnboy (and an Irish speaker), she distinctly remembers when they started spelling it 'Babhún' (a mistake) as opposed to 'Badhún', the former of the two meaning Bailey and totally incorrect and not what it originally meant, which was 'enclosure' with natural boundaries, much like a small meadow with hedges all round. The field (of whins) referred to is in fact, according to my mum, behind the current priest's house.