Selected: CO. LIMERICK, RATHKEALE, UNION WORKHOUSE
| Name: | WILKINSON, GEORGE |
| Building: | CO. LIMERICK, RATHKEALE, UNION WORKHOUSE |
| Date: | 1841;1851 |
| Nature: | New workhouse. Cost of building: £6,696. Cost of fittings &c.: £864. Accommodation for 660. Completed Dec 1840, first admissions 26 Jul 1841. Contractor: Thomas Deane. Industrial ward, 75 x 18 ft, 2 storeys high to be built, 1851. |
| Refs: | Drawings in IAA Workhouse Drawings Collection, Acc. 85/138.66 (not available for consultation on account of extremely fragile condition); B 9, 21 Jun 1851, 393; John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 263; Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (Cork University Press, 1997), 26 |