Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. SLIGO, BALLYMOTE, RAILWAY STATION

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. SLIGO, BALLYMOTE, RAILWAY STATION
Date: 1862
Nature: New station, for Midland Great Western Railway. Opened 3 Dec 1862 (Butt). (One of 4 station buildings erected at cost of £23,000 on Boyle & Sligo extension line to designs by GW, according to DB.)
Refs: DB 3, 15 May 1861, 519; Brenda O'Reilly, 'An introduction to Victorian railway architecture in Ireland', unpublished MA thesis, History of Art Deparment, University College, Dublin, 1983, 118-9,Pls. 21,22; R.J.V. Butt, The Directory of Railway Stations (1995), 25; Michael Gould & Ronald Cox, 'The railway stations of George Wilkinson', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 6 (2003), 192