Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, UNION WORKHOUSE

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1840-42
Nature: New workhouse. Date of contract 4 Aug 1840. First admissions May 1842. Cost of building: £5,175. Cost of fittings &c.: £1,975. Accommodation for 600. First admissions 13 May 1842
Refs: Parliamentary Gazetter of Ireland (1847), I, 54-55; John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 259

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1850-1851
Nature: Additions to male and female wings, 1850. Proposed adds to entrance building in male probationary ward, 2 new wings., 1851. For Ardee Board of Guardians.
Refs: 3rd Report of Poor Law Commissioners for Ireland (1850), 79; B 9, 18 Jan,5 Apr 1851, 46,221

Name: MURRAY, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1862
Nature: New workhouse chapel for Ardee Board of Guardians. Contractor: Thomas Connolly. Clerk of Works: Thomas Clarke.
Refs: DB 4, 15 Aug 1862, 214; P.J. Geraghty, A Heritage in Stone: the life and career of architect John Murray (1994), 33-37

Name: TURLEY, LOUIS FRANCIS
Building: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1899;1904
Nature: Tenders invited for adds. to kitchen of workhouse hospital, 1899. New windows & imps. to ventilation, 1904. kConversion of ward into apartments for a nurse, 1904.. Tender of P.J. Caffrey, James St, Drogheda,(£109) accepted
Refs: IB41, 15 Sep 1899, 129; 46, 9 Apr,5,19 Nov,3 Dec 1904, 222,750,782,826

Name: CAHILL, PETER WILLIAM
Building: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1908
Nature: Temporary sheds &c. By P. Cahill, Seatown Pl, Dundalk. Possibly by Peter Cahill the elder.
Refs: IB 50, 22 Aug,31 Oct 1908, 523,678

Name: CAHILL, PETER WILLIAM
Building: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1909
Nature: Hot water supply to infirmary by P. Cahill, CE (possibly Peter Cahill, the elder).
Refs: IB 51, 12 Jun 1909, 383