Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, ST AUGUSTINE PLACE, CITY GAOL

Name: WOODGATE, ROBERT
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, ST AUGUSTINE PLACE, CITY GAOL
Date: 1799-1802
Nature: Proposed new gaol. Clerk of works: Joseph Fone. (But not built?)
Refs: Letter from RW to Soane, 18 Nov 1799, Sir John Soane's Museum archive: Private correspondence XV.A.2.5; Board of Works minute book 1, 8 May 1802 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: NASH, JOHN
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, ST AUGUSTINE PLACE, CITY GAOL
Date: 1811p-1814
Nature: New gaol. Grand Jury presentment of £6123,4s.3d. at Spring Assizes, 18 Mar 1811. Plans 'perfected by Mr Nash, architect'. 'Forcing engine to supply water' installed, 13 Mar 1814, 'by Mr Paine, architect, the builder of the city gaol'. (i.e. clerk of works to Nash?)
Refs: M. Lenihan, Limerick; its history and antiquities (1866), 428n,431n; David Lee & Debbie Jacobs, James Pain, architect (Limerick Civic Trust, 2005), 17

Name: PAIN, JAMES
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, ST AUGUSTINE PLACE, CITY GAOL
Date: 1811p-1814
Nature: New gaol. Grand Jury presentment of £6123,4s.3d. at Spring Assizes, 18 Mar 1811. Plans 'perfected by Mr Nash, architect'. Completed Nov 1813. 'Forcing engine to supply water' installed, 13 Mar 1814, 'by Mr Paine, architect, the builder of the city gaol'. (i.e. clerk of works to Nash?)
Refs: M. Lenihan, Limerick; its history and antiquities (1866), 428n,431n; David Lee & Debbie Jacobs, James Pain, architect (Limerick Civic Trust, 2005), 17

Name: HANNAN, NICHOLAS *
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, ST AUGUSTINE PLACE, CITY GAOL
Date: 1826ca
Nature: Archt. with - Mackey for adds.
Refs: NA/SPO 588, 944 (E.McP files)

Name: MACKEY, TIMOTHY
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, ST AUGUSTINE PLACE, CITY GAOL
Date: 1826ca
Nature: 'Mr Mackey' & Nicholas Hannan architects of additions.
Refs: NA/SPO AAB 588 944 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: PAIN, JAMES
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, ST AUGUSTINE PLACE, CITY GAOL
Date: 1829
Nature: Additions.
Refs: E.McP files, citing ?Parliamentary Papers, Gaols 1829.

Name: CORBETT, WILLIAM EDWARD
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, ST AUGUSTINE PLACE, CITY GAOL
Date: 1866-68
Nature: Extensive alts. and adds. with a view to converting it to the separate system. Builder: Clayton. Cost: £5,300.
Refs: DB 8, 15 Feb 1866, 53; IB 10, 1 May 1868, 116