Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, OLIVER PLUNKETT STREET, POST OFFICE

Name: OWEN, ENOCH TREVOR
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, OLIVER PLUNKETT STREET, POST OFFICE
Date: 1876
Nature: Proposed design. (Not executed)
Refs: Rena Lohan, Guide to the Archives of the Office of Public Works(OPW 1994), 181 (illus.)

Name: OWEN, JAMES HIGGINS
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, OLIVER PLUNKETT STREET, POST OFFICE
Date: 1876-79
Nature: New. On site of Theatre Royal connecting with existing P.O. on Pembroke St. Ground floor of local limestone, other floors of sandstone 'with little pretension to architectural beauty'. With E.T. Owen? Opened May 1879. Cost: £8,000. Contractor: Richard Evans, Cork. Clerk of Works: James Williams.
Refs: Contract drawing(s), 1876, signed E.T. Owen and Richard Evans, contractor, in NA, OPW records, old. refs. E.4.3 and E.4.4 (street front (which differs from design as executed) repr. in Rena Lohan, Guide to the Archives of the Office of Public Works(OPW 1994), 181); IB 15, 1 Apr 1873, 99; 18, 15 Apr 1876, 100; 21, 1 May 1879, 137; B 37, 17 May 1879, 551;

Name: MELLON, THOMAS JOHN
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, OLIVER PLUNKETT STREET, POST OFFICE
Date: 1899-1907
Nature: Extension into Pembroke St., involving demolition of neo-Classical PO in Pembroke St. Work started in summer of 1900. Builder: J. Delany & Co., Henry St £20,000.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0828, B19/29, B20/13; IB 42, 15 Jul 1900, 420; 43, 13 Mar 1901, 656

Name: COCHRANE, ROBERT
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, OLIVER PLUNKETT STREET, POST OFFICE
Date: 1900
Nature: Alterations and additions
Refs: Drawings in OPW (E.4.2-5); IB 42, 1 Apr,15 Jul 1900, 323,420

Name: DELANY, JOHN *
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, OLIVER PLUNKETT STREET, POST OFFICE
Date: 1900
Nature: JD & Co. contractors for Pembroke St addition.
Refs: Drawings in OPW, former file E.4.4.; Building News 101, 22 Sep 1911, 396.

Name: KAVANAGH, EDWARD [2]
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, OLIVER PLUNKETT STREET, POST OFFICE
Date: 1900
Nature: Extension round corner to Pembroke St, involving demolition of original PO on Pembroke St. Builder: John Delaney & Co, Henry St. .
Refs: Dated drawing(s) signed EK in OPW, E.4.5

Name: PENTLAND, JOHN HOWARD
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, OLIVER PLUNKETT STREET, POST OFFICE
Date: 1913-14
Nature: Adds. & alts. Estimated cost £1,901
Refs: IAA, PKS 0947, A09 (Dec 1913)