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The workhouse is on the gounds beside the present day ST Colmans Hospital.
The workhouse has a grave yard up the lane behind the hospital. Known as the famine
graveyard.
It was set up as a workhouse during the famine. Then after the need for the workhouse
it became known as the county home. Older people that couldn't look after themselves,
went into the home. I wouldn't have called it a mental home.
Unmarried mothers were taken in to have here to
have there babies. The child would be then taken into care and the given out to families that
wanted children.

HI,
Kilcommon graveyard up a lane, half way between Rathdrum & Glenealy. Not marked, Think the lane is on the right hand side when coming from Rathdrum. Just before a sharp bend.

There was a workhouse in Rathdrum, and now built beside the site is St Colmans Hospital. The graveyard for the work house is up a lane past the community school. People were buried in mass graves and unmarked. I don't think there is records but could be wrong.

COI graveyard in rathdrum is around St Saviours church. on the main street.
Other possible places for COI is Ballinatone Grave yard & Church on the rd between Greenane & Ballinaclash behind a high hedge. the COI church in Glenealy have a grave yard around it. There is a COI church in laragh but no grave yard.

Rathdown is near greystones not rathdrum. Rathdrum in the Griffith Valuation 1846 done prior to the famine is known as the UNION OF RATHDRUM, Parish of Knockrath or Kilcommon depends on which one u are looking up.

Regards Tochar