Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CARLOW, CARLOW, UNION WORKHOUSE

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. CARLOW, CARLOW, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1840-1844
Nature: New workhouse. Cost of building: £9,000. Cost of fittings &c.: £1,470. Accommodation for 800 persons. Quality of workmanship criticized by committee instructed to report on same, Jul 1844. First admissions 18 Nov 1844.
Refs: Drawings in IAA Workhouse Drawings Collection, Acc. 85/138.12 (not available for consultation on account of extremely fragile condition); Design exh. RA, 1843, no. 1212; Teresa Kelly, 'The workhouse or Old Union, Kilkenny Road [Carlow]', ?, 31-32,42 (article in Jones file, source not given); John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 260

Name: HADE, WILLIAM PATRICK
Building: CO. CARLOW, CARLOW, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1902-04
Nature: Works, new boiler in bath house, repairs in Fever Hospital.
Refs: IB 44, 13 Feb 1902, 1042; 45, 12 Feb 1903, 1594; 46, 16 Jan 1904, 22

Name: O'DONNELL, JAMES IGNATIUS
Building: CO. CARLOW, CARLOW, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1906;1907
Nature: Tenders invited for supplying and fixing vertical boiler, 1906, and for carrying out 8 sanitary annexes, new drainage, water supply, 1907. For Carlow Union Board of Guardians.
Refs: IB 49, 27 Jul 1907, 517