The building at Lurgan was constructed as a workhouse in the 1840s, during the Famine, and laid out with strict separation by age and sex. In the 1920s it was repurposed as a hospital. One persistent local belief is that tunnels or passages run beneath parts of the site, used to move supplies, staff, patients or the dead without being seen. The entry itself notes they might have been service corridors or old drains that were later reinterpreted as secret tunnels.
The hospital is also widely rumoured to be haunted, with reports centred on older wings and disused sections. Spirited Isle lists shadowy figures in corridors, footsteps, doors opening and closing, cold spots, and the sound of children crying or running, often linked to workhouse memories. Some people say they have heard movement, voices or knocks from sealed or underground areas.
The directory states plainly that there is no contemporary documentation of hauntings from when the building was operating, and that the accounts belong to later oral tradition and personal testimony.
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