Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LAOIS, PORTARLINGTON, RAILWAY STATION

Name: WOOD, SANCTON #
Building: CO. LAOIS, PORTARLINGTON, RAILWAY STATION
Date: 1847
Nature: New picturesque Gothic station for Great Southern & Western Railway. Design exh. RHA, 1850. Opened 26 Jun 1847.
Refs: RHA 1850, no. 332; R.J.V. Butt, The Directory of Railway Stations (1995), 188; Gordon Biddle, 'Sancton Wood - Railway Architect', II, BackTrack 21, no. 11 (Nov 2007), 699(illus.)

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. LAOIS, PORTARLINGTON, RAILWAY STATION
Date: 1861
Nature: New refreshment building in the Gothic style with 'spacious and elaborately finished saloon'. For Great Southern & Western Railway. Cost: about £1,600. Architect: George Wilson(sic). Contractor: W.H. Beardwood & Son.
Refs: B 19, 12 Jan 1861, 29