Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LONGFORD, BALLYMAHON, UNION WORKHOUSE

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. LONGFORD, BALLYMAHON, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1851-52
Nature: New workhouse for Poor Law Commissioners. Tenders invited Mar 1851. Cost of building: £7,000. Cost of fittings &c: £1,400. Accommodation for 800 persons. First admissions 1852.
Refs: Drawings in IAA Workhouse Draawings Collection, Acc.85/138.3; B 9, 22 Mar 1851, 189; 7th Report of Poor Law Commissioners in Irealnd (1854), 30; John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 259

Name: THOMPSON, JOHN CALDWELL
Building: CO. LONGFORD, BALLYMAHON, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1901
Nature: Disinfectingchamber, for Ballymahon Board of Guardians.
Refs: IB 43, 27 Feb 1901, 640