Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, MALL, DISTRICT MODEL SCHOOL

Name: OWEN, JAMES HIGGINS
Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, MALL, DISTRICT MODEL SCHOOL
Date: 1858-1863
Nature: New district model school. Italianate, with central block & 2 wings. Deeply recessed circular headed windows; heavy eaves course supported by cantilever blocks. Nearly completed, Feb 1863. Contractor: P. Keighron. Clerk of Works: Edward Brannick. Cost: £7000.
Refs: Drawing(s), 1860, in NA, OPW drawings, OPW5HC/4/823; 29th Report of Commissioners for National Education (1858), xviii; 28th Report of Board of Public Works, Ireland (1859), 17; B 20, 31 May 1862, 394; DB 5, 1 Feb 1863, 17