Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Civil engineer, of Ballina, Co. Mayo.   According to the 1911 census, Martin James O'Boyle, a son of Patrick O'Boyle, dock labourer, and his wife, Catherine, was born in Co. Mayo in 1879 or 1880.  In 1907 he was appointed engineer under the Labourers' Cottages Act by the district councils of both Ballina and Swinford, Co. Mayo. The Local Government Board refused to sanction either appointment but eventually gave way on the Ballina post after they had examined O'Boyle.(1) In the case of Swinford, a Mr Taylor of Aclare, Co. Sligo, was appointed instead.(2) In 1912 O'Boyle was appointed an assistant county surveyor for Co. Mayo,(3) a position which he held until 1942 or later.(4)   He was unmarried at the time of the 1911 census and living with his parents at Ardnaree, Ballina.



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(1) IB 49, 6,20 Apr ,4 May 1907, 266,294,324.
(2) IB 49, 4 May 1907, 326. (3Building News 102, 28 Jun 1912, 935.
(4) He is listed as one of the assistant county surveyors in Thom's Directory for 1942 but not in that for 1948.


1 work entries listed in chronological order for O'BOYLE, M.J.


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Building: CO. MAYO, CROSSMOLINA, BALLINA STREET, HOUSES (004)
Date: 1908
Nature: Tenders invited for erection of 4 houses, for M.J. Daly, Glenhest, Newport.
Refs: IB 50, 2 May 1908, 277