Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, ANTRIM, UNION WORKHOUSE

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, ANTRIM, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1843a
Nature: New workhouse. Cost of building: £5,580. cost of fittings &c.: £1,474. Accommodation for 700. Completed 4 Sep 1843. First admissions 19 Sep 1843. New fever hospital open by May 1847..
Refs: Michael H. Gould, The Workhouses of Ulster (UAHS, 1983), 9(illus.),18; John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 239,259