Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, DOWNPATRICK, UNION WORKHOUSE

Name: LYNN, JOHN [1]
Building: CO. DOWN, DOWNPATRICK, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1840-42
Nature: JL contractor.
Refs: Gordon Wheeler, 'John Lynn - Architect/Contractor/Engineer', Lecale Miscellany (1997), 44-45(illus.)

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. DOWN, DOWNPATRICK, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1842A
Nature: New workhouse. Cost of building: £7500. cost of fittings &c.: £2123. Accommodation for 1000. Completed 22 Aug 1842. First admissions 17 Sep 1842. Plans for fever hospital prepared, 1847 (non-standared design, Gould thinks not by Wilkinson).
Refs: Michael H. Gould, The Workhouses of Ulster (UAHS, 1983), 23; John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 241,260