Donaghmore is one of those 'one street' villages - a few houses on the main road and a few off it. That being said, it's a pretty place and it was the location for film, the name of which I don't know! (About10 to 15 years ago). Donaghmore is on the road from Rathdowney to Borris in Ossory and from there to Roscrea. There is a Church of Ireland church with a graveyard above the village on the edge of the green. It was renovated recently, the scaffolding can be seen in one of the photos below, the other photo is an old one. Donaghmore used to have a mill, there is a stream running 'through' the village. There is a building across the stream from the mill which seems to have been a church (?Methodist), though I can find no mention of the presence of a Methodist church in literature. The workhouse for the area was just outside the village itself.
When I was young the 'Workhouse' was the local Creamery, nowadays they have renovated part of it and converted it into the Workhouse Museum. Donaghmore once had two pubs, there seems to be only one now.
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Church of Ireland under renovation |
Donaghmore Workhouse 1 |
Donaghmore Workhouse |
Graveyard Church of Ireland |
Village Green from Church |
Main street from Village Green |
Methodist church (maybe) |
Mill bridge |
Old |
The Bridge |
Village Green |
The Mill |
Village pump |
