Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILKENNY, CALLAN, UNION WORKHOUSE

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. KILKENNY, CALLAN, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1842A
Nature: New workhouse. Cost of building: £5500. cost of fittings &c.: £1,140. Accommodation for 600. First admissions, 25 Mar 1842. Fever hospital in course of erection, May 1847. Building work on female side, 1850.
Refs: 3rd Report of Poor Law Commissioners, Ireland (1850), 79; John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 240,260

Name: BURDEN, ALEXANDER MITCHELL
Building: CO. KILKENNY, CALLAN, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1901;1906
Nature: Drainage
Refs: IB 43, 26 Sep 1901, 874; 48, 8 Sep 1906, 742