Don <dwixt@comcast.net> asked: >A MARGARET SHANNON died in 1870 in the Kinsale workhouse, CORK. Her >husband was WILLIAM SHANNON, a labourer. >Where do I find the records of the Kinsale workhouse,what is the name of >the cemetery the people would be buried in , the name of the church that >would have a record of her buried Churches did not necessarily keep burial records. There are some collections of tombstone transcriptions in the Journals of the Cork Historical & Archaeological Society. See http://www.ucc.ie/chas/ and http://www.xs4all.nl/~tbreen/Journals/Cork.html The Cork City & County Archives has records of Poor Law Unions in County Cork. The Kinsale workhouse records and the minutes of the meetings of the Kinsale Union Board of Guardians are in record group BG 108. See http://www.corkarchives.ie/ for Cork Archives website. -dja