Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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