Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WESTMEATH, MULLINGAR, UNION WORKHOUSE

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.
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