Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. FERMANAGH, BELLEEK, PORCELAIN FACTORY

Name: ARMSTRONG, ROBERT WILLIAMS
Building: CO. FERMANAGH, BELLEEK, PORCELAIN FACTORY
Date: 1858
Nature: RWA probably instrumental in design. Begun 1858. FS laid Jan 1859. Completed for £10,000 by David McBirney by Mar 1862, 'but a large sum will be required to put it into…complete working order'.
Refs: B 16, 18 Dec 1858, 857; DB 1, ? ? 1859, 9; 4, 1 Mar 1862, 49; S. McCrum, The Belleek Pottery (Ulster Museum, Belfast, 1972), 8; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 142