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.)
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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.).
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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
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Refs: |
Wicklow Newsletter, 26 Nov 1892, 8 Jul 1893, 18 Jun 1898.
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