Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, OLD BUNDORAN ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, OLD BUNDORAN ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1841A
Nature: New. Cost of building: £9100. Cost of fittings &c.: £1900. Accommodation for 1200. First admissions 17 Dec 1841. (Demolished, 1935?  See Irish Times, 16 Mar 1935.)
Refs: John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 263

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, OLD BUNDORAN ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1848
Nature: Fever hospital.  Contractors:  Patterson & Catcheside, Dublin.
Refs: William Gregory Wood Martin, History of Sligo, county and town, from the earliest ages to the close of the reign of Queen Elizabeth (to the present time) (Dublin, 1882-92),168;  A.P.W. Malcomson, The Clements Archive (Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2010), 159.

Name: GILCRIEST, WILLIAM FAWCETT
Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, OLD BUNDORAN ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1898;1899
Nature: Residence for Sisters of Mercy. Builder: G. Kerr, £1195. Adds. to chapel & residence, 1899.
Refs: IB 40, 15 Sep 1898, 141; 41, 1 Nov 1899, 177

Name: DEANE, THOMAS MANLY (SIR)
Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, OLD BUNDORAN ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1901
Nature: RC chapel In progress in Sept 1901; is this mistake for lunatic asylum chapel, q.v.?
Refs: IB 43, 12 Sep 1901, 862

Name: KILGALLIN, PATRICK J.
Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, OLD BUNDORAN ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1901
Nature: Sanitary and other improvements.
Refs: IB 43, 24 Oct 1901, 906,907

Name: KILGALLIN, PATRICK J.
Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, OLD BUNDORAN ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1904
Nature: Improvements. Contractor: Henry Kearney, Holborn St, Sligo, £113.17.0.
Refs: IB 46, 17 Dec 1904, 870