The final era of the Donegal Workhouses

After the workhouses were shut the buildings belonging to the workhouses were used for a variety of functions.

Ballyshannon Union workhouse which also served parts of Leitrim and Sligo was used as a district hospital for a number of years and more recently became an Old People's Home. Another part of the building is in use by Donegal County Council.

A district hospital was built on the site of Donegal workhouse, while some of the buildings which remain from Dunfanaghy workhouse have subsequently been transformed into a successful Famine museum.

No part of Glenties workhouse remains, originally the workhouse became a district hospital. Later a school was built on the site and it is still in operation there.

In Inishowen, the Carndonagh workhouse is also in the ownership of the North Western Health Board. The Inishowen workhouse too, became a district hospital but was demolished in 1958.

Part of Letterkenny workhouse, once the fever hospital, has become the County Museum.

Milford workhouse was demolished in the nineteen sixties and only ruins remain.

Stranorlar workhouse was to become the County Home (St Joseph's) but the original building has been destroyed and St. Josephs Nursing Home now stands in its place.