Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LAOIS, DONAGHMORE, UNION WORKHOUSE

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. LAOIS, DONAGHMORE, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1851
Nature: New workhouse. Cost of building: £4,750. Cost of fitments: £775. Accommodation for 400. Contract signed 21 Mar 1851 but contractor sacked. Completed Sep 1853.
Refs: Drawings in IAA Workhouse Drawings Collection, Acc. 85/138.25; B 9, 19 Jul 1851, 453;  7th Report of Poor Law Commissioners for Ireland (1854), 30; A.D. Walsh, Borris-in-Ossory: an Irish parish and its people (1969), ?; John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 260