• Borrisokane Poor Law Union and Workhouse - Information on the Borrisokane Workhouse.

Poor Law Union Records - at Tipperary Studies

Workhouse Registers - at Tipperary Studies

• Thurles Workhouse Register, various dates 1849+
• Deaths in Cashel Workhouse 1848, 1849, 1850
• Cashel Workhouse Indoor Register December 1847/1848
• Roscrea PLU Outdoor Relief Register 1899-1917
• Roscrea PLU Indoor Relief Register 1906-1908

General Information

The Workhouse website gives an overview of Poor Law & Workhouses in Ireland, together with information about some individual workhouses includes history, maps & photographs.

PRONI (Belfast) has produced an online downloadable leaflet outlining the Poor House records that they hold covering Northern Ireland.

A number of workhouses have re-opened as Heritage Centres and Museums giving an insight into life in the Workhouse,

Records

• Scanned images of the Index to those who applied for admission into the Belfast Workhouse between 1892 & 1921 are available online from PRONI (Belfast).  To view/download these images, search the PRONI Catalogue for PRONI Ref: "BG/7/GK/1".   This index shows names & ages, together with a reference number. 
• Manuscript: Poor Rate Collection books for the Celbridge Poor Law Union,1855  at NLI Dublin.

Other Online Resources

• Ireland, Famine Relief Commission Papers, 1844-1847  on Ancestry (££/€€/$$)
• Ireland, Poor Law Union Removals From England, 1859-1860 on Ancestry (££/€€/$$)
• Dublin Workhouses Admission & Discharge Registers 1840-1919 on Find My Past (££/€€/$$)
• Sligo Workhouse Admission and Discharge Registers 1848-1859 on Find My Past (££/€€/$$)
• Sustainability Loan Fund, 1821-1874 on Ancestry (££/€€/$$)
• Sustainability Loan Fund, 1812-1868 on Ancestry (££/€€/$$)
• Poverty Relief Loans 1821-1874 on Find My Past (££/€€/$$)

Publications

• The Workhouses of Ireland by John O’Connor Anvil 1995
• The Poor Law and the workhouse in Belfast, 1838-1948 by Michael Farrell, PRONI, 1978.
• The Establishment of poor-law unions in Ireland 1838-43  by Gerard O'Brien.
• The poor law in Ireland 1838-1948 by Virginia Crossman. 2006.
• Derry and the Irish Poor Law by Patrick Durnin, Waterside Community Local History Group ,1991

• Peter Higginbotham's comprehensive The Workhouse website provides a wealth of information about Workhouses, the Poor Law and related issues.catalogue
• If you are looking for someone who was in a workhouse, it is worth checking if they also appear in the Quarter Sessions records, held in County Record Offices - see the British Library's Discovery catalogue (use Advanced Search and select "Search Other Archives"). 
• You can search and freely download documents of a number of Poor Law Unions across England and Wales from TNA.
• Settlement Examinations in England and Wales - a detailed explanation, from LDS Familysearch, based on an article by Anthony Camp.