[3] The Listowel Workhouse was filled with many destitute people who died every day from starvation and disease during the Great Famine.
[5] On 26 December 1849, the Board of Guardians of the Listowel Workhouse agreed to purchase land for a cemetery of no more than three acres.
[5] In January 1850, the Guardians bought one acre of land from Lord Listowel’s tenant William Sandes of Greenville.
[6] After the last rites were given to paupers in the workhouse, the bodies were transported to Teampaillin Bán by a horse and cart also known as the ‘Dead Car’ in folkloric tales.
[9] The relatives of deceased inmates had one or two days to claim the dead body before it was buried in an unmarked grave.
[11] The grant was given to Listowel County Council to cover the refurbishment costs of the graveyard in preparation for the 150th-anniversary of the Great Famine.