Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. OFFALY, TULLAMORE, CORMAC STREET, COUNTY COURT HOUSE

Name: BUTLER, WILLIAM DEANE
Building: CO. OFFALY, TULLAMORE, CORMAC STREET, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: 1832
Nature: Prize-winning design exh. RHA 1834.
Refs: RHA 1834, nos. 273, 278

Name: KEANE, JOHN BENJAMIN
Building: CO. OFFALY, TULLAMORE, CORMAC STREET, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: 1832
Nature: Winner of competition. Design 'as erected' exh. RHA 1837.
Refs: Copies of plans in Lismore Castle collection (photocopies in IAA, 97/107.3/1-4; RHA 1837 , no. 221

Name: MORRISON, WILLIAM VITRUVIUS
Building: CO. OFFALY, TULLAMORE, CORMAC STREET, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: 1832
Nature: Unsuccessful competition entrant (2 schemes: 1 classical & 1 Gothic).
Refs: Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 137; A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 181

Name: MURRAY, WILLIAM [1]
Building: CO. OFFALY, TULLAMORE, CORMAC STREET, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: 1832
Nature: Competition entrant.
Refs: Drawings in IAA, Murray Collection, nos. 1174-1193 (see Bernadette Goslin, 'A History and descriptive catalogue of the Murray Collection of architectural drawings' (MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1990), 335-338)

Name: MCNAMARA, THOMAS FRANCIS
Building: CO. OFFALY, TULLAMORE, CORMAC STREET, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: 1925
Nature: Reconstruction within existing layout. Changes involved removing royal arms from attic, opening of blank windows in curtain walls, new door in one wall with window above, windows in outer bays of wall behind portico. Contract given to : James Fleming, 57 Canal St, Newry (£32,139.8s.2d).
Refs: Drawings in NA, OPW collection (former ref. B.7.22); IB 67, 8 Aug,19 Sep 1925, 650,766; B 129, 14 Aug 1925, 264