The Ballyshannon workhouse was completed on the 1^st October 1842 and its first admissions took place on the 6^th May 1843. It cost £5850 with fittings costing £1100 and could accommodate 600 people. It closed on the 1^st March 1922. The Workhouse is synonymous with the purported social care system that existed in Ireland prior to Independence, but its role in society has often been overlooked or misunderstood.  By using the plans for workhouses devised by the Poor Law Commissioners Architect George Wilkinson in the 19th century and the conservation report undertaken for Ballyshannon Workhouse, Donegal County Museum and the Donegal Archives Service, Culture Division, Donegal County Council  commissioned Virtual Teic  to create this virtual reconstruction of  Ballyshannon Workhouse as it would have appeared in the early Twentieth Century. This virtual workhouse captures a moment in time when the Workhouse system was still in use prior to the changes which resulted in the aftermath of the Revolutionary Period. This project has been funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Community Strand of the 2022 Decade of Centenaries programme as part of the Decade of Centenaries Initiative 2012-2023.