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 |