The old Lisnaskea Workhouse, Co. Fermanagh. It is now mostly derelict and surrounded by the Lakeview housing estate.
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Lisnaskea workhouse - old entrance block
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Not many deaf children were sent to Cabra from Lisnaskea Union - just four before 1914:
- Catherine Clarke (1895)
- Owen McCaffrey (1910)
- Rose A. Cosgrave (1911) - all paid for by the Lisnaskea Board of Guardians
- Ellen Murphy, sent by her family in 1899.
This may be because the Lisnaskea guardians may have been reluctant to pay for their local poor deaf children to educated. In 1905, a local Protestant churchman applied for the Lisnaskea Guardians to send young Henry Delmore to the Ulster Institution for the Deaf and Blind.
But one Guardian - named Plunkett - disagreed. He said that the Church should cover the costs, not the Union (although hundreds of deaf children had been sent and paid for by Poor Law Unions in the preceding decades). The Board finally agreed to pay just £5 a year for Henry's fees, and for a limited time.
A few years previously in 1899 Plunkett had raised a similar objection to another deaf child and again suggested the clergyman should pay.
Sources: Freemans Journal, 1 March 1899, p. 8; Fermanagh Herald, 5 August 1905, p. 8.
More information on Lisnaskea Workhouse: https://workhouses.org.uk/Lisnaskea/
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Old Lisnaskea workhouse, old entrance block
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| Old Lisnaskea workhouse, side of old accommodation block |
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| Old Lisnaskea workhouse, rear - old accommodation block |
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| Old Lisnaskea workhouse, rear - old accommodation block |
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| Old Lisnaskea workhouse, rear of old entrance block |
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| Old Lisnaskea workhouse, between entrance and accommodation blocks |
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