Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. GALWAY, BALLINASLOE, RAILWAY STATION (MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY)

Name: HEMANS, GEORGE WILLOUGHBY
Building: CO. GALWAY, BALLINASLOE, RAILWAY STATION (MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY)
Date: 1851
Nature: New station to be built at a cost of about £1,500. Contractor: Cockburn & Son, Dublin; 'apparently' designed by GWH (Sheehy).
Refs: B 9, 22 Feb 1851, 124 (described in detail but no architect named); Jeanne Sheehy, 'Railway Architecture - its heyday', Journal of the Irish Railway Record Society 12, no. 68 (Oct 1975), 138; See Michael Gould & Ronald Cox, 'The railway stations of George Wilkinson', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 6 (2003), 195 (Pl.12) for a view of the station after enlargement by George Wilkinson.)

Name: MULVANY, JOHN SKIPTON
Building: CO. GALWAY, BALLINASLOE, RAILWAY STATION (MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY)
Date: 1851
Nature: Attr. to JSM by Cox & Gould.
Refs: Michael Gould & Ronald Cox, 'The railway stations of George Wilkinson', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 6 (2003), 195(illus.), 197-8

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. GALWAY, BALLINASLOE, RAILWAY STATION (MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY)
Date: 1859
Nature: Enlargement of existing station, for Midland Great Western Railway.. Contractor: Madden.
Refs: DB 1, 1 Dec 1859, 164; Michael Gould & Ronald Cox, 'The railway stations of George Wilkinson', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 6 (2003), 195(illus.),197-198