Donegal County Museum

Donegal County Museum is a county museum, formally identified by way of the Government of Ireland as the quality inside the country. Located on High Road in Letterkenny, the constructing opened to the general public in 1845 as the Warden's House of the Letterkenny Workhouse at some stage in the Famine. Its cause is to accumulate, file, hold, and show the cloth proof and associated information of the history of Donegal. Letterkenny Board of Guardians held their first meeting in July 1841.

At this meeting it becomes decided to construct a workhouse within the city. The constructor of the building was Alex Deane of Cork. He agreed to complete the building, on a 4 acre website online, for £5,792. The building started in 1842 in neo-Tudor style. Stone used inside the constructing changed into taken from Lord Abercorn's Quarry. The Warden's House and the Workhouse doorways opened in 1844, quickly earlier than the Famine. 46 paupers had been admitted. A dispensary become connected to the workhouse and later became Saint Anne's Maternity Hospital.