Name: |
WILKINSON, GEORGE |
Building: |
CO. LONGFORD, LONGFORD, UNION WORKHOUSE |
Date: |
1841-42;1847;1850 |
Nature: |
New workhouse. Contract: 13 Jan 1840. Cost of building: £7,000. Cost of fittings &c.: £1,580. Accommodation for 1,000. First admissions 24 Mar 1842. New fever hospital finished and addition contemplated by May 1847. Extension to female wing 1850. (Main block gutted by fire, 1909, see Irish Times, 1 Apr 1909.))
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Refs: |
Drawings for fever hospital in IAA Workhouse Drawings Collection, Acc. 85/138.44; The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland (1846), II, 689; 3rd Report of Poor Law Commissioners for Ireland (18 50), 79; John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 243,262
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