Selected: CO. CORK, MIDLETON, UNION WORKHOUSE
| Name: | WILKINSON, GEORGE |
| Building: | CO. CORK, MIDLETON, UNION WORKHOUSE |
| Date: | 1839-1841 |
| Nature: | New. Work under way by Sep 1839. Cost of building: £6853. Cost of fittings &c.: £1347. Accommodation for 800. Opened 15 Jun 1841. First admissions 21 Aug 1841. Additional wing added by 1847. Contractor: William Hill. (Tenders invited for 'additional works' and 'stables and sheds', 1846.) |
| Refs: | Cork Constitution, 14 Sep 1839,15 Jun 1841 (information from Ronnie Herlihy, Cork, Feb 2010); B 4, 6 Jun,12 Sep 1846, 275,443; John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 237,262 |
| Name: | WILKINSON, GEORGE |
| Building: | CO. CORK, MIDLETON, UNION WORKHOUSE |
| Date: | 1850 |
| Nature: | Workhouses being erected at Strokestown, Mountbellew and Midleton by Poor Law Commissioners. |
| Refs: | B 8, 5 Oct 1850, 473 |