Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, UNION WORKHOUSE

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1840A
Nature: New. Cost of building: £8581. Cost of fittings &c.: £1319. Accommodation for 800. Completed 1 Jan 1841. First admissions 22 Feb 1841. Extension for 700 children, 1850.
Refs: 3rd Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners for Ireland (1850), 78; Michael H. Gould, The Workhouses of Ulster (UAHS, 1983), 23(illus.),19,20(illus.); John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 262;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 433.

Name: HOBART & HERON
Building: CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1904;1907
Nature: Adds. and alts to infirmaries, including adition of verandah to lung wards, for Board of Governors; sewerage works and new windows, 1907..
Refs: Eugene T. Corbett, 'The Architecture of Henry Hobart and Samuel Heron' (unpublished dissertation for the Diploma in Advanced Architectural Studies, Queen's University, Belfast, 1990), p.59, figs.102-104

Name: PEDDIE, JOHN FINLAY
Building: CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1907
Nature: Sewerage scheme, plumbing work & provision of sanitary annexes. Contractor: Pollock Bros, Bangor.
Refs: IB 49, 24 Aug,2 Nov 1907, 606,754; 50, 11 Jul 1908, 442

Name: HOBART & HERON
Building: CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1911;1914
Nature: Extensive alts. £2,000.
Refs: IB 53, 5 Apr 1911, 246; IA & C 1, 8,22 Apr 1911, 145,173; Eugene T. Corbett, 'The Architecture of Henry Hobart and Samuel Heron' (unpublished dissertation for the Diploma in Advanced Architectural Studies, Queen's University, Belfast, 1990), p.61,62