Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. SLIGO, DROMORE WEST, UNION WORKHOUSE

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. SLIGO, DROMORE WEST, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1850-52
Nature: New workhouse. Cost of building: £4650. Cost of fittings &c.: £815. To accommodate 400. First admissions 1852.
Refs: B 8, 24 Aug 1850, 403; 6th Report of Poor Law Commissioners for Ireland (1852-3), 84; W.G. Wood Martin, History of Sligo, (Dublin, 1882-92), III, 171; John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 261