Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, ABBEY ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, ABBEY ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1839-41
Nature: New workhouse. Contracted for, 1 Nov 1839.  Opened 22 Nov 1841. Cost of building: £7,500. Cost of fittings &c.: £1,801. Accommodation for 900. First admissions 22 Nov 1841. Fever hospital incourse of erection, May 1847.
Refs: Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland I(1844), 99;  John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 239,259

Name: LANGRISHE, RICHARD
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, ABBEY ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1889
Nature: Adds. to accommodate nuns. Cost: £385.
Refs: Architect 41, suppl. 29 Mar 1889, 1; suppl, 5 Apr 1889, 1

Name: PRENDERGAST, PATRICK JOSEPH
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, ABBEY ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1896
Nature: Fitting up laundry drying room and cooking apparatus. Tender of W. Baird (£283) accepted.
Refs: IB 38, 1 Dec 1896, 247

Name: PRENDERGAST, PATRICK JOSEPH
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, ABBEY ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1899-1900
Nature: Additions (incl. new wing) to male & female hospitals, for Athlone Board of Guardians.
Refs: Athlone Times, Aug 1899; IB 41, 1 Oct 1899, 140; 42, 1 Apr 1900, 323

Name: PRENDERGAST, PATRICK JOSEPH
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, ABBEY ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1904
Nature: Painting and other work at chapel.
Refs: IB 46, 27 Aug,10 Sep,8 Oct 1904, 562,598,662

Name: O'LOUGHLIN, PATRICK JOHN
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, ABBEY ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1918
Nature: Sanitary annexe to maternity ward to be erected for Athlone Union Board of Guardians.
Refs: IB 60, 27 Apr 1918, 229

Name: O'LOUGHLIN, PATRICK JOHN
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, ABBEY ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1925
Nature: Plans for converson of workhouse into dwellings for workers in course of preparation.
Refs: IB 67, 21 Feb 1925, 147