Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WICKLOW, SHILLELAGH, UNION WORKHOUSE

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. WICKLOW, SHILLELAGH, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1842a
Nature: New workhouse. Cost of building: £5,300. Cost of fittings: £1,000. Accommodation for 400. First admissions 18 Feb 1842. Additions, 1850.  (Largely demolished 1946; chapel & refectory converted into RC church.)
Refs: Drawings in IAA Workhouse Drawings Collection, Acc. 85/138.68;  3rd Report of Poor Law Commissioners for Ireland (1850), 79;   John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 263;  Churches of the Diocese of Ferns (Booklink, 2004), 51(illus.).

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WICKLOW, SHILLELAGH, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1890
Nature: Tenders invited for erection of large entrance gates and small gate. Architect probably Joseph W. Berry,engineer to Shillelagh and Rathdrum Union.
Refs: Wicklow Newsletter, 5,26 Jul 1890.

Name: RAMSAY, JOHN JAMES OCTAVIUS
Building: CO. WICKLOW, SHILLELAGH, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1892;1893;1898
Nature: Tenders invited for executing alts. in lunatic wards and adjoining wards, 1892. Tenders invited for new corridor & other alts. in female infirmary wards, 1893. Tenders invited for ceiling dining hall, stores and forming a protestant chapel in former male school, &c., 1898
Refs: Wicklow Newsletter, 26 Nov 1892, 8 Jul 1893, 18 Jun 1898.