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 |