Name: |
WILKINSON, GEORGE |
Building: |
CO. WESTMEATH, MULLINGAR, UNION WORKHOUSE |
Date: |
1842a |
Nature: |
New workhouse contracted for, 29 Jul 1840, to be completed in Jan 1842.. Cost of building: £7,250. Cost of fittings &c.: £1,400. Accommodation for 800. First admissions 8 Dec 1842. New fever hospital bulding finished by May 1847. Extended, 1850.
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Refs: |
Drawings in IAA Workhouse Drawings Collection, Acc. 85/138.54; Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland (1846), II, 829; 3rd Report of Poor Law Commissioners for Ireland (1850), 79; John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 244,262
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