Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Architect, builder and 'CE', of Dublin, active in the 1840s. He is listed at various addresses in Great Brunswick Street in Thom's Directory: at No. 163 in 1845, at No. 164 in 1846, at No. 150 in 1847 and 1848, after which he disappears.(1) He may be the Robert Scallan who was admitted to the Royal Dublin Society's School of Drawing in Architecture on 6 November 1828, and to the School of Landscape and Ornament Drawing the following year.(2)



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(1) Edward McParland files (IAA, Acc.2008/44) also have reference to him as a Dublin architect in Pettigrew & Oulton's Dublin Almanac for 1844.
(2) MS. transcript from Royal Dublin Society minutes of School of Drawing in Architecture admissions and prizewinners (in IAA).
(2) Gitta Willemson, The Dublin Society Drawing Schools 1746-1876 (2000), 86.