County home (Ireland)

In the Irish Free State and Republic of Ireland, the county home (Irish: teaghlach contae) was an institution which replaced workhouses from 1922 onwards.

County homes were total institutions housing a wide variety of people, mostly poor: the elderly, the chronically ill, the mentally ill, children, the intellectually disabled and unmarried mothers.

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