| Name: |
WILKINSON, GEORGE |
| Building: |
CO. LAOIS, ABBEYLEIX, UNION WORKHOUSE |
| Date: |
1842a1851 |
| Nature: |
New workhouse. Ciost of building: £5,850. Cost of fittings &c.: £1,020. Accommodation for 500. First admissions 6 Jun 1842. Adds. & alts., new boardroom &c. Tenders invited 'for proposals to raise the idiot wards...and execute sundry works, according to the drawings by Mr Wilkinson', 1851. Work in progress, Sep 1851. |
| Refs: |
B 8, 5 Oct 1850, 473; 9, 19 Apr,20 Sep 1851, 254,600; John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 259
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