Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DERRY, LIMAVADY, UNION WORKHOUSE

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. DERRY, LIMAVADY, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1841-42
Nature: New workhouse. Cost of building: £5982. Cost of fittings &c.: £1309. Accommodation for 500. Completed and first admissions 15 Mar 1842. New fever hospital building open by May 1847. (Now Roe Valley Hospital)
Refs: W.D. Girvan, Historic Buildings in North Derry (UAHS, 1975), 15(illus.),18(no. 75); Michael H. Gould, The Workhouses of Ulster (UAHS, 1983),4(illus.),11(illus.), 25; John O'Connor, The Workhouses of Ireland (1995), 244,262