Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LONGFORD, LONGFORD, UNION WORKHOUSE

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. LONGFORD, LONGFORD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1841-42;1847;1850
Nature: New workhouse. Contract: 13 Jan 1840. Cost of building: £7,000. Cost of fittings &c.: £1,580. Accommodation for 1,000. First admissions 24 Mar 1842. New fever hospital finished and addition contemplated by May 1847. Extension to female wing 1850. (Main block gutted by fire, 1909, see Irish Times, 1 Apr 1909.))
Refs: Drawings for fever hospital in IAA Workhouse Drawings Collection, Acc. 85/138.44; The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland (1846), II, 689; 3rd Report of Poor Law Commissioners for Ireland (18 50), 79; John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 243,262

Name: KAYE-PARRY, WILLIAM
Building: CO. LONGFORD, LONGFORD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1909
Nature: WK-P elected special architect to examine and report on building after fire of Mar 1909 by Longford Board of Guardiaans..
Refs: Irish Times, 1 Apr 1909.

Name: GEOGHEGAN, JOSEPH ALOYSIUS
Building: CO. LONGFORD, LONGFORD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: ?
Nature: Remodelling of main block.
Refs: 5 signed, undated drawings in IAA, Geoghegan Collection, 80/32.L/1-5