Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, DOUGLAS ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Name: | WILKINSON, GEORGE |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, DOUGLAS ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE |
Date: | 1840a |
Nature: | New. Cost of building: £12800. Cost of fittings &c.: £8000. Accommodation for 2000. Contractor: Alexander Deane, who 'promised to make every exertion, and would have the house ready for the reception of paupers on the 20th December [1841]' (Cork Constitution). Transfer of paupers from old House of Industry to the new Workhouse began on 23 Dec 1841. |
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Photocopies of fragments of drawings in IAA Workhouse Drawings Collection, 85/138.21; Cork Constitution, 2 Nov 1841 (information from Ronnie Herlihy, Cork); J. Windele, Historical and Descriptive Notices of the City of Cork (1849), ?; John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 260; Colman O'Mahony, Cork's Poor Law Palace - Workhouse Life 1838-90 (Cork, 2005), 9 (information from Ronnie Herlihy, Cork). |
Name: | DEANE, ALEXANDER [2] |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, DOUGLAS ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE |
Date: | 1840a-1841 |
Nature: | AD contractor for same. |
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Cork Constitution, 2 Nov 1841 (information from Ronnie Herlihy, Cork). |
Name: | BOYD & BATT |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, DOUGLAS ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE |
Date: | 1865 |
Nature: | B & B win competition for design of fever hospital. |
Refs: | DB 7, 15 Jan 1865, 26 |
Name: | SMITH, WILLIAM D'ESTERRE |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, DOUGLAS ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE |
Date: | 1865-66 |
Nature: | New fever hospital for Cork Union Board of Guardians. Competition won by Boyd & Batt, Belfast, but building executed to designs by W. D'Esterre Smith. Contractor: O'Connor. |
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Cork Constitution, 9,10 Aug 1866 (information from Ronnie Herlihy, Cork). |
Name: | BRASH, RICHARD ROLT |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, DOUGLAS ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE |
Date: | 1869-1870 |
Nature: | Female schools, dormitories, probationary ward. Contractor: Patrick Barry (£3,510). |
Refs: | IB 11, 1 May,1 Jul 1869, 111,174; 12, 1 Feb 1870, 38 |
Name: | COAKLEY, DOMINICK J. |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, DOUGLAS ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE |
Date: | 1902 |
Nature: | Proposed new sewers |
Refs: | IB 43, 16 Jan 1902, 1014 |
Name: | O'FLYNN, BARTHOLOMEW |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, DOUGLAS ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE |
Date: | 1912;1914 |
Nature: | New bathrooms, adds. to St Agnes Hospital, 1912. Sanitary annexe to boys' school, 1914. For Cork Board of Guardians. |
Refs: | IB 54, 20 Jan,25 May,22 Jun 1912, 51,319,379; 56, 26 Sep 1914, 558 |