Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MAYO, CASTLEBAR, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. MAYO, CASTLEBAR, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1860-66
Nature: New asylum. In progress, Dec 1862. Estimated cost: £18,000.
Refs: 2 contract drawings, 1863, in IAA, Acc. 96/5; IAA, PKS B03/32, A03 (Dec 1861, Feb 1862, pp.44v,91v); DB 2, 1 Aug 1860, 308; 3, 1 Apr 1861, 473; 4, 1 Jan 1862, 8; 5, 1 Jan 1863, 11; B 18, 11 Aug 1860, 512; 45th Report on District, Criminal and Private Lunatic Asylums (1895), 13

Name: OWEN, CHARLES ASTLEY
Building: CO. MAYO, CASTLEBAR, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1888-89;1890-91
Nature: Enlargement, with Edward Glover. Builder: Donovan. Amount of tender: £9739. Further works, including new drainage system, with E. Glover, 1890-91. Cost: £428. Builder: Donovan.
Refs: IB 30, 15 Sep 1888, 242; IAA, PKS 0672, B15/23 (missing), A07 (Nov 1888-Jun 1891, pp.333,334,407)

Name: GLOVER, EDWARD
Building: CO. MAYO, CASTLEBAR, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1888-89;1891
Nature: With Charles Astley Owen. Enlargement. Builder: Donovan. Further works, including new drainage system, with E. Glover, 1890-91. Builder: Donovan.
Refs: IAA, PKS B14/35, B15/23 (missing), 0672, A07 (Jul 1890, p.389); IB 30, 15 Sep 1888, 242; 40th Report on District, Criminal and Private Lunatic Asylums (1891), 11

Name: DIXON, EDWARD KEVILLE
Building: CO. MAYO, CASTLEBAR, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1896-97
Nature: Alts. & adds., including laundry adds., boiler house, chimney, observation dormitory &c.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0760, B17/15, B18/12; IB 38, 1 Apr 1896, 77 (wrongly called E.K. Nixon); 46th Report on…Lunatic Asylums (1897), 19

Name: DIXON, EDWARD KEVILLE
Building: CO. MAYO, CASTLEBAR, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1900-1903
Nature: RC chapel, extension, medical officer's residence.
Refs: B 78, 7 Apr 1900, 358, advertisement for tenders; IB 42, 15 Apr 1900, 334,343; 43, 30 Jan 1901, 606,607; 44, 27 Feb, 8, 22 May,14 Aug, 25 Sep, 9, 23 Oct 1902, 1060,1240,1258,1368,1422,1436,1452; 52nd Report on … Lunatic Asylums (1903), 549

Name: DIXON, EDWARD KEVILLE
Building: CO. MAYO, CASTLEBAR, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1908
Nature: Sewerage scheme.
Refs: IB 50, 28 Nov 1908, 745

Name: BUTLER, RUDOLF MAXIMILIAN
Building: CO. MAYO, CASTLEBAR, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1914-1915
Nature: New pavilions, tubercular sanatorium & bakery.
Refs: IB 56, 15 Aug,26 Sep 1914, 498,557; 57, 3 Jul 1915, 306; Building News 107, 16 Oct 1914, 512; 108, 16 Jul 1915, 709; 109, 14 Jul 1915, 35.

Name: BUTLER, RUDOLF MAXIMILIAN
Building: CO. MAYO, CASTLEBAR, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1918
Nature: Conversion of prison into asylum.
Refs: IB 60, 5 Jan 1918, 5

Name: MUNDEN, PATRICK JOHN FITZGERALD
Building: CO. MAYO, CASTLEBAR, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1932-34
Nature: Alts. & enlargement. Contractor: McNally. Cost: £75,798.Tender of P.J. Kelly, Lousiburg, for building assistant medical officer's residence (£1,193) accepted by Mayo Mental Hospital Committee, Oct 1933 (not clear whether this wasalso deigned by PJFM)
Refs: Irish Times, 2 Sep 1932, 26 Oct 1933;  IB 74, 8 Oct,3 Dec 1932, 900,1091; 75, 14 Jan,18 Nov 1933, 31,998; 76, 27 Jan,10 Mar,14 Jul,1 Dec 1934, 45,205,607,1038

Name: MCNAMARA, CHARLES GERALD
Building: CO. MAYO, CASTLEBAR, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1937
Nature: Water supply.
Refs: IB 79, 4 Sep 1937, 797