A new Ancestry index documents over 14,000 infants associated with Irish workhouses between 1872 and 1874. For children who were born in the workhouse or admitted before the age of one, each entry may include the scant information: name, poor law union, inferred birth year, and health status as of 1879.
This data was compiled as part of a government-ordered survey. The original is in the UK Parliamentary Archives, but it is unavailable because of ongoing archives relocation.