Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Builder, of Dublin, active in the 1760s. Thomas Keating and his children are mentioned in the will of Nicholas Keating, of Dublin, of 1752.(1)

There were numerous Keatings associated with the building trades in Dublin in the later 18th century: Samuel Keating was admitted a freeman of Dublin by virtue of Service as a member of the Carpenter's Guild at Midsummer 1780, at the same time that Henry Keating was admitted as a member of the Plasterers' Guild. George and Thomas Keating were admitted at Michaelmas 1792 as members of the Plasterers' and Smiths' Guilds respectively, both by virtue of of birth.(2) According to Curran, a plasterer named Thomas Keating is listed in Wilson's Dublin Directory for 1797.(3) See also JOHN KEATING. JOHN KEATING.

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(1) P.B. Eustace, Registry of Deeds Dublin: Abstracts of Wills II 1746-85 (1954), 57.
(2) 'An alphabetical list of the Freemen of the City of Dublin, 1774-1824', The Irish Ancestor XV (1983), Nos. 1 & 2, 74-75.
(3) C.P. Curran, Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1967), 102.


2 work entries listed in chronological order for KEATING, THOMAS *


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Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE, NO. 001-3
Date: 1762
Nature: Built by TK.
Refs: Georgian Society Records IV, 79.

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PATRICK'S CLOSE, MARSH'S LIBRARY
Date: 1763-64
Nature: TK paid for £50 and £38-9s for unspecified work.
Refs: Account book belonging to Alec Cobbe (or his uncle), Newbridge, Co. Dublin (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)