Selected: CO. CORK, SKIBBEREEN, UNION WORKHOUSE
Name: | WILKINSON, GEORGE |
Building: | CO. CORK, SKIBBEREEN, UNION WORKHOUSE |
Date: | 1839-1842 |
Nature: | New workhouse. Contractor: William Hill. Cost of building: £7,083. Cost of fittings, &c.: £1,217. Accommodation for 800. First admissions 19 Mar 1842. New fever hospital building open by May 1847. |
Refs: | Drawings in IAA Workhouse Drawings Collection, Acc. 85/138.69; Cork Constitution, 13 Sep 1839 (information from Ronnie Herlihy, Feb 2010); John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 244,263 |