Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL, IRISHTOWN UPPER, UNION WORKHOUSE (FORMER HOUSE OF INDUSTRY)

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL, IRISHTOWN UPPER, UNION WORKHOUSE (FORMER HOUSE OF INDUSTRY)
Date: 1841a;1851
Nature: House of Industry adapted for use as workhouse, 1841a. Cost of building: £1,505. Cost of fittigs &c.: £794. To accommodate 600. First admissions 1 Jan 1841. New workhouse to be erected, 1851, as House of Industry had proved to be insufficient..
Refs: B 9, 8 Mar,31 May,7 Jun 1851, 152,346,362; 4th Report of Poor Law Commissioners for Ireland (1851), 157;  Michael H. Gould, The Workhouses of Ulster (UAHS, 1983), 5(illus.),13(illus.); John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 260