Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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.

Refs: 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.
Refs: 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.
Refs: 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