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COAKLEY, DOMINICK J.
- Born: - Died: 1914
Architect and engineer of Cork, active from 1879 or earlier. After two years in the office of NATHANIEL JACKSON , county surveyor for Cork, Coakley spent a further two years with his cousin, a builder, in London, before working for nine months in the office of GEORGE EDMUND STREET . He set up in practice in Cork in 1879, and in 1881 was elected architect to the Cork Board of Guardians,(1) a post which he held for many years, retiring in 1907 or 1908.(2) In 1886 the Irish Builder carried a report that he had designed about 1,000 labourers' cottages which were to erected in the Cork Poor Law Union at an average cost of £95 each.(3) Coakley exhibited architectural drawings at the Irish Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures in Dublin in 1882.(4) He died in 1914. He does not appear in the 1911census of Cork, which only lists a twenty-nine-year-old architect and engineer named Dominic Charles Coakley, who was then living at the house of his father-in-law, William Casburn, in Langford Row, Cork.
RIBA: associate, 23 May 1881, proposed by H.R. Newton, C. Bell and G.E. Street.
Addresses: 48 Grand Parade, Cork, <=1881 until >=1882;(5) 86 S. Mall, <=1889 until >=1893;(6) 1 Charlotte (later Father Mathew) Quay, <=1900 onwards.(7)
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References
All information in this entry not otherwise accounted for is from the entry on Coakley in Directory of British Architects 1834-1900 (1993), 185.
(1) IB 23, 15 Jun 1881, 192.
(2) IB 50, 11 Jan 1908, 22.
(3) IB 28, 15 May 1886, 155.
(4) Nos. 629,640..
(5) See notes 2 and 4, above.
(6) IB 31, 1 Dec 1889, 300; IB 35, 15 Aug 1893, 193.
(7) IB, 1 Mar 1900, 293.
28 work entries listed in chronological order for COAKLEY, DOMINICK J.
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Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, ?, HOUSES (004) |
Date: | |
Nature: | 4 new houses to be built. |
Refs: | Architect 39, 27 Apr 1888, Suppl. p.4 |
Building: | CO. KERRY, LIXNAW, CONVENT |
Date: | 1879 |
Nature: | New. |
Refs: | B 37, 5 Jul 1879, 759 |
Building: | CO. KERRY, CASTLEISLAND, CHURCH (RC) |
Date: | 1879;1901 |
Nature: | DJC's design selected out of 7 submitted; tenders invited for erecting tower & spire, Sep 1901.1901 (but see also R.M. Butler, below) |
Refs: | B 37, 8 Mar,19 Apr 1879, 269,438; Architect 21, 8 Mar 1879, 152; Irish Times, 11,14 Sep 1901; IB 63, 5 Nov 1921, 729. |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, MONTENOTTE, ST MARY'S HOME FOR THE AGED & CONVENT OF LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR |
Date: | 1882 |
Nature: | For 250 old people. 300 ft long. Builder: E. & P. O'Flynn. For Little Sisters of the Poor. |
Refs: | Architect 27, 15 Jul 1882, 44; Dublin, Cork & South of Ireland…past & present (1892), 172 |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, MONTENOTTE, ST MARY'S HOME FOR THE AGED & CONVENT OF LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR |
Date: | 1882 |
Nature: | Convent block |
Refs: | IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc. 2006/142 |
Building: | CO. CORK, BALTIMORE, INDUSTRIAL FISHERY SCHOOLS |
Date: | 1885-87 |
Nature: | Plain quadrangle faced with cement. Opened 17 Aug 1887 by Baroness Burdett-Coutts (one of the subscribers). Builder: Sisk. Cost: of building and furniture, £4,000. |
Refs: | Irish Times, 17,18 Aug 1887, 16 Jan 1888; IB 29, 1 Sep 1887, 252; 63, 5 Nov 1921, 729; Cork Almanack (1888), ? |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, MAYFIELD, GLEBE HOUSE |
Date: | 1888 |
Nature: | Cost £750 |
Refs: | Architect 39, 30 Mar 1888, suppl. p.1, and 27 Apr 1888, suppl. p.4 |
Building: | CO. CORK, DUNMANWAY, GLEBE HOUSE |
Date: | 1888 |
Nature: | New. |
Refs: | Architect 39, 27 Apr 1888, Supplement, 4. |
Building: | CO. CORK, DUNMANWAY, CONVENT & CHAPEL |
Date: | 1888 |
Nature: | New convent & chapel, costing £2,450 and £500 respectively. |
Refs: | Architect 39, 27 Apr 1888, Supplement, 4; IB 63, 5 Nov 1921, 729 |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, FATHER MATHEW QUAY, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (RC, CAPUCHIN) |
Date: | 1889-90 |
Nature: | Completion of western facade & steeple. Design of DJC eventually executed, although that of Walter Doolin selected in limited competition. Tenders invited, Sep 1889. Tender of J. Sisk, Cork, for executing design (£5,769) accepted, Jan 1890. |
Refs: |
Irish Times, 17 Sep 1889; IB 31, 1 Dec 1889, 300; 32, 15 Jan 1890, 27; 48, 7 Apr 1906, 261; 63, 5 Nov 1921, 729; Architect 42, 19 Jul 1889, 39; 43, 3 Jan 1890, 16; 54, 18 Oct 1895 (Supplement), 9; Sisk's form of tender repr. in Building a Business: 150 Years of the Sisk Group, ed. by Madeleine Lyons (Dublin: Associated Editions, 2009), 18. |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, SUMMERHILL, ST LUKE'S INFANT SCHOOL |
Date: | 1890 |
Nature: | New school and offices. Cost: £885.10s |
Refs: | Architect 44, 11 Jul 1890, suppl. p.1, and 25 Jul 1890, suppl. p.3 |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, GLEN DISTILLERY |
Date: | 1890 |
Nature: | New bonding stores |
Refs: | Architect 44, Supplement, 25 Jul 1890, 3 |
Building: | CO. CORK, BLARNEY, DOCTOR'S HOUSE |
Date: | 1892 |
Nature: | Tender of J.J. Coffey (£745) for erecting same accepted. For Cork Board of Guardians |
Refs: | IB 34, 1 Oct 1892, 211 |
Building: | CO. CORK, CARRIGALINE, CHURCH (RC) |
Date: | 1892 |
Nature: | Enlargement. Tender of J.J. Coffey, Midleton, accepted. |
Refs: | IB 34, 15 Aug 1892, 182 |
Building: | CO. CORK, YOUGHAL, HOUSE |
Date: | 1892 |
Nature: | New |
Refs: | IB 34, 15 Aug 1892, 182 |
Building: | CO. CORK, CLOUGHROE, DOCTOR'S HOUSE |
Date: | 1892 |
Nature: | Tender of D. Ford, Ballincollig (£858) accepted. |
Refs: | IB 34, 15 Jun 1892, 139; Architect 47, 10 Jun 1892, suppl. p.11 |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, PARADISE PLACE (& COURT LANE), CORK YOUNG MENS' SOCIETY |
Date: | 1893 |
Nature: | Works & alts. Contractor: T. O'Flynn, Cork (£500) |
Refs: | IB 35, 15 Aug 1893, 193 |
Building: | CO. CORK, MACROOM, CHURCH (RC) |
Date: | 1893 |
Nature: | Improvements |
Refs: | IB 35, 1 May 1893, 109 |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, WILTON ROAD, CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH (RC) |
Date: | 1895-97 |
Nature: | New church with tower and spire, attached to St Joseph's College (Society for African Missions). Decorated Gothic. English red brick and Ballintemple limestone. 'Nominally…the architect was P[sic] J. Coakley..However, it is apparent that the real 'architect' was Fr. Zimmermann…Fr. Zimmerman may have fallen out with Coakley, as the completion plaque in the church names only Samuel Hynes as the architect.'. FS laid 6 May 1895; opened 14 Dec 1897. Builder: Stephen.J. Scully, Proby's Quay.. Seats and altar rails made by students.Stained glass by Watson, Youghal. |
Refs: | St Joseph's Church Wilton Centenary 1887-1997 (1997), 9-13 |
Building: | CO. CORK, COBH, QUEENSTOWN SEA BATHS |
Date: | 1896 |
Nature: | Tenders invited, Dec 1896, for erecting new baths, for Queenstown Sea Baths and Recreation Co., London, |
Refs: |
Irish Times, 12 Dec 1896. |
Building: | CO. CORK, GURRANEBOY (WHITE'S CROSS), DISPENSARY RESIDENCE |
Date: | 1899 |
Nature: | New dispensary residence to be erected. |
Refs: | IB 41, 1 Sep 1899, 114 |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, COMMONS ROAD, HOUSES (002) & SHOP |
Date: | 1900 |
Nature: | T be erected. |
Refs: | IB 42, 1 Mar 1900, 293 |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, DOUGLAS ROAD, UNION WORKHOUSE |
Date: | 1902 |
Nature: | Proposed new sewers |
Refs: | IB 43, 16 Jan 1902, 1014 |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, GRAND PARADE, NATIONAL MONUMENT |
Date: | 1902-1906 |
Nature: | National memorial with statues of Wolfe Tone, Thomas Davis, Michael Dwyer and Erin. FS laid, 2 Oct 1898. Advt. for tenders. Apr 1902. Unveiled on St Patrick's Day, 1906. Builder: Ellis. Sculptor: John Francis Davis. |
Refs: |
B 82, 19 Apr 1902, 408 (tenders); Cork Past & Present, www.corkpastandpresent.ie (last visited May, 2010); Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010),142, Fig.322. . |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, BALLINLOUGH ROAD, HOUSE |
Date: | 1903 |
Nature: | For Mr W. Lee |
Refs: | IB 45, 26 Feb,12 Mar 1903, 1618,1632; B 84, 7 Mar 1903, 264 |
Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, BLACKROCK ROAD, HOUSES (005) |
Date: | 1903 |
Nature: | 5 villas. |
Refs: | IB 45, 2 May 1903, 1750 |
Building: | CO. CORK, KNOCKRAHA, WATER SUPPLY |
Date: | 1905 |
Nature: | For Cork Rural District Council. With R. Evans. |
Refs: | IB 47, 1 Jul 1905, 454; 48, 5 May 1906, 354 |
Building: | CO. CORK, RYLANE (COACHFORD), CHURCH (RC) |
Date: | 1907 |
Nature: | Improvements & extension |
Refs: | IB 49, 20 Apr 1907, 288 |