WILKS, CHARLES #

Chief clerk of works for powder mills to the Board of Ordnance, active in the first two decades of the nineteenth century.  In 1805 Charles Wilkes was appointed superintendent of the gunpowder mills at Ballincollig, Co. Cork, and as such was responsible for the expansion of the mills complex and associated barracks between 1805 and 1815.(1)

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References

(1) Colin Rynne, The Industrial Archaeology of Cork City and its Environs  (1999),151-155

2 work entries listed in chronological order for WILKS, CHARLES #

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Building:	CO. CORK, BALLINCOLLIG, ROYAL ARTILLERY BARRACKS
Date:	1807-08
Nature:	Designs for proposed artillery establishment or ordnance depot comprising officers' and non-commissioned officers' quarters, messroom, cookhouses, stables, guard-room, gun-carriage sheds and artificers shops by Robertson and Wilks.
Refs:	25 drawings, 1807-1808, in NA/PRO (Kew), MPH1/185

Building:	CO. CORK, BALLINCOLLIG, GUNPOWDER MILLS
Date:	?
Nature:	Built by Mr Leslie 'some years ago' and purchased from him by Government, which has greatly extended them at cost of £2,000 or £3,000. Improvements still [1810] being made (Beaufort). Expansion 'designed and implemented' by CW (Rynne).
Refs:	Plans, 1806, 1811, in NA/PRO (Kew), MPH 1/206/6, MPH 1/844/1,2;  Journal of the Rev. D.A. Beaufort, 1810;  Colin Rynne, The Industrial Archaeology of Cork City and its Environs  (1999),151-156.