Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LISBURN ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Name: | WILKINSON, GEORGE |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LISBURN ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE |
Date: | 1840a;1849;1850 |
Nature: | New workhouse. Cost of building: £7000. Cost of fittings &c.: £2869. Accommodation for 1000. Completed 1 Jan 1841. First admissions 11 May 1841.Fever hospital, 1849. Detached extension for 1000 children, 1850. |
Refs: | 3rd Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners for Ireland (1850), 78; Michael H. Gould, The Workhouses of Ulster (UAHS, 1983), 2(illus.),18-19,24(illus.),26(illus.),illus. on back cover; John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 259 |
Name: | LANYON, CHARLES (SIR) |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LISBURN ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE |
Date: | 1850ca |
Nature: | Gate lodge, 'reputedly by Charles Lanyon'. |
Refs: | A.J. Rowan & C.E.B. Brett, Queen's University (UAHS, revised edition 1975), 26 |
Name: | JACKSON, THOMAS, & SON |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LISBURN ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE |
Date: | 1870 |
Nature: | Plan for converting part of school building so as to accommodate infirmary patients. |
Refs: | IB 12, 15 Feb 1870, 48 |
Name: | MACKINNON, JAMES FRANCIS |
Building: | CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, LISBURN ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE |
Date: | 1880 |
Nature: | 2 new 3-storey blocks (1 for males and 1 for females)for reception of lunatics and epileptics to be erected. Contractor: Fitzpatrick Bros. |
Refs: | Architect 23, 28 Aug 1880, 139-40 |