Selected: CO. LONGFORD, GRANARD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Name: | WILKINSON, GEORGE |
Building: | CO. LONGFORD, GRANARD, UNION WORKHOUSE |
Date: | 1840-42;1851 |
Nature: | New workhouse to accommodate 600. Contract, 4 Nov 1840, to be completed by 4 Feb 1842. Cost of building £5925. Cost of fittings &c.: £1225. First admissions 30 Sep 1842. Tenders invited for erecting additional bulding on male side, 1851. |
Refs: | B 9, 1,22 Feb 1851, 77,124; The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland (1846), II, 284; John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 261 |