Selected: CO. GALWAY, PORTUMNA, UNION WORKHOUSE
Name: | WILKINSON, GEORGE |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, PORTUMNA, UNION WORKHOUSE |
Date: | 1850-52 |
Nature: | New workhouse. Cost of building: £6,700. Cost of fittings, &c. £1,175. Accommodation for 600. First admissions , 1852. Builders: Burgess & Sons. |
Refs: | Drawings in IAA Workhouse Drawings Collection, Acc. 85/138.64; B 8, 31 Aug 1850, 416; 10, 27 Nov 1852, 757; 6th Report of Poor Law Commissioners for Ireland (1852-3), 84; John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 263 |