A short film on the history of Lisnaskea workhouse and its famine graveyard has launched online. The video appears on YouTube and covers a key chapter in local Fermanagh history.

The workhouse stood off the Newtownbutler road. Local authorities purchased the land from Lord Erne in 1841. Builders designed it to accommodate 500 paupers.

The facility provided shelter for homeless and destitute people until the 1940s. Workhouses formed part of Ireland's Poor Law system, established in the 1830s amid rising poverty before the Great Famine of the 1840s.

Lisnaskea Historical Society raised a famine memorial at the paupers graveyard site. The memorial notes burials there during the famine's peak.