Sketches from Ireland: troops in the yard of the Poorhouse at Kells, 1870. View of [British] soldiers in ...the yard of the Kells Union Workhouse, having been sent there to keep the peace, on account of the agrarian murders and outrages in that part of Meath. The detachment arriving at Kells, after a long days march, the arrangements for its reception were found not complete, and the soldiers were obliged to rest where they could till temporary quarters were prepared for them in the town. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.