Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM

Name: MURRAY, WILLIAM [1]
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1820-1825;1837
Nature: New '2nd class' asylum for 100 patients designed by Francis Johnston with WM, 1820; opened 14 Jul 1825. Contractors: McCartney & Ballantine.  Proposed adds. by WM, 1837.   'B' wing, 1846  (Builder: R. Clarke).
Refs: Drawings in IAA, Murray Collection, 92/46, nos. 63-73 (Bernadette Goslin, 'A History and descriptive catalogue of the Murray Collection of architectural drawings' (MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1990), 56-58; Jill Lever, ed., Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects L-N (1973), 101; 4th Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1836), 7;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 137-8.

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1820-24
Nature: New. With William Murray, for Commissioners of Lunatic Asylums in Ireland. Completed Feb 1824. Cost £14,668.
Refs: Drawings and specifications, 1820-1825, in IAA, Murray Collection, nos. 63-73 (see Murray Collection catalogue, pp. 56-58); Minutes of Commissioners for General Control..and for Superintending…the Erection…of Asylums for the Lunatic Poor, Feb 1824 (information from Brendan O'Donoghue);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 137-8.

Name: BOYD, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1860-1862;1875
Nature: Alterations and additions. Tenders invited, Oct 1861.  Work started Feb 1862. Estimated cost of Richard Cherry's tender £5,794.12s.9d.
Refs: Signed and dated plans for improving centre portion, 1875, in Armagh County Museum, 39/1967, see Hugh Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1972), 28 (no. 146); IAA, PKS A03 (Dec 1861, p.90v), L1 (pp.184-192,194-5,206,275,293,298,307 &c.); B 18, 2 Jun 1860, 347; DB 2, 1 Jun 1860, 266; 3, 15 Dec 1861, 713; 4, 1 Apr,1 Oct 1862, 85 (wrongly named as Omagh),254; IB 17, 1 Jun 1875, 152; 19, 1 Feb 1877, 43;  Armagh Guardian, 18 Oct 1861, 14 Mar,24 Oct 1862;   R. McKinstry, R. Oram, R. Weatherup, P. Wilson, The Buildings of Armagh (UAHS, 1992),193;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 138.

Name: PHILLIPS, J.J., & SON
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1891-1897
Nature: RC chapel and detached hospital for 150 patients at rear of old building. (Also enlargement of dining hall?). Estimated cost: £3,950. Chapel dedicated by Cardinal Logue, 13 Dec 1896. Builder: McLaughlin & Harvey, Belfast.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0700, B15/41 (missing), A07 (Aug 1891, p.406); Architect 46, 26 Aug 1891, suppl. p.1; IB 35, 1 Oct 1893, 228; 40th Report on District, Criminal and Private Lunatic Asylums (1891), 10; 44th Report (1895), 11; 46th Report (1897), 17; 48th Report (1899), 27; B 71, 26 Dec 1896, 546; 72, 20 Mar 1897, 279; 46th Report on…Lunatic Asylums (1797), 17;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 138-139.

Name: BOYLE, JOHN CHARTERS
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1900
Nature: Alterations & new entrance gates
Refs: IB 42, 15 Jul 1900, 421; B 58, 30 Jun 1900, 654; Architect 62, 22 Jun 1900, suppl. p.9;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 138.

Name: DORMAN, RICHARD HENRY
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1901;1903;1907
Nature: Piggeries and slaughter houses; erection of cottages & conversion of single rooms into dormitories; alts. to corridors male side main building. Hill Building, 1903.
Refs: IB 43, 1 Jan 1901, 585; 45, 13 Aug,10 Sep 1903, 1932,1984; 49, 18 May 1907, 370; Brendan O'Donoghue, The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 155

Name: HENRY, GEORGE AUSTYN
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1937-38
Nature: Renovation and modernizing. £30,000.
Refs: IB 79, 23 Jan,20 Mar,1 May,30 Oct 1937, 82,262,402,962; 80, 9 Jul 1938, 581; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 433.

Name: FERGUSON & MCILVEEN
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1948
Nature: Alts. & adds.
Refs: IB 90, 12 Jun 1948, 472

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: ?
Nature: Proposed adds?
Refs: Plan formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son