Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, SHELBOURNE ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, SHELBOURNE ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1839-1841;1847
Nature: New workhouse. Cost of building: £10000. Cost of fittings &c.: £2830. Accommodation for 1600. First admissions May 1841. Contractor: Thomas Deane. Adds, 1847. New fever hospital bulding open by May 1847. Extension to male wing, 1850. .
Refs: Cork Advertiser, 29 Aug 1839; 3rd Report of Poor Law Commissioners for Ireland (1850), 79; John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 236,243,262; Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (Cork University Press, 1997), 26

Name: FOGERTY, WILLIAM
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, SHELBOURNE ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1859-1863
Nature: Adds. including hospital. Conversion of school-room into chapel. Contractor for latter: Mr Day. Cost: £540.
Refs: DB 1, 1 Jan,1 Feb 1859, 9,17; 5, 1 Mar 1863, 43

Name: FOGERTY, WILLIAM
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, SHELBOURNE ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1863
Nature: Works, including additions to hospital, new chapel. Total cost about £1,600.
Refs: DB 5, 1 Mar 1863, 43

Name: CARROLL & BATCHELOR
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, SHELBOURNE ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1902
Nature: Alts. & adds.
Refs: IB 44, 13 Feb 1902, 1042

Name: O'MALLEY, JOSEPH P.
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, SHELBOURNE ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1903;1906
Nature: Kitchen, laundry, disinfecting chamber, &c. for Limerick Union Board of Guardians, 1903. 1 sanitary annexes to fever hospital and 1 to general hospital, 1906.
Refs: IB 45, 22 Oct,19 Nov 1903, 2052,2098; 48, 17 Nov 1906, 928

Name: ROSEINGRAVE, THOMAS WILLIAM
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, SHELBOURNE ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1911
Nature: Addition. Estimated cost about £2,500.
Refs: IB 53, 28 Oct 1911, 725