Auxiliary Workhouse 3

The Owen chemist houses many dark secrets. It began life in medieval times as a castle with a slip way down to the sea. During the Great Famine it was one of six Auxiliary Workhouses, each taking five or six hundred people in addition to the main workhouse which had a capacity for about 1,100 people. The population of the town dropped from almost 13,000 to just over 4,000 in one generation. During the Famine a couple visited Dr. Ronayne at the workhouse, hoping he would buy the corpse of a dead child for dissection. He refused and called the police. It turns out it was not their own child. They were desperately trying to feed their own children.