Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, BLACKROCK, SION HILL, ST CATHERINE'S DOMINICAN CONVENT

Name: BOURKE, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, BLACKROCK, SION HILL, ST CATHERINE'S DOMINICAN CONVENT
Date: 1860
Nature: Large additions including 3-storey wing, transept to chapel, poor school, &c.
Refs: B 18, 11 Aug 1860, 512; DB 2, 1 Aug 1860, 317

Name: ROBINSON, JOHN LOFTUS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, BLACKROCK, SION HILL, ST CATHERINE'S DOMINICAN CONVENT
Date: 1873a
Nature: Oratory on lawn. Builder: Stapleton, Dun Laoghaire. Window by Earley & Powell. Tiles by Sibthorpe & Son.
Refs: IB 15, 1 Jun 1873, 148(illus.)

Name: MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, BLACKROCK, SION HILL, ST CATHERINE'S DOMINICAN CONVENT
Date: 1880
Nature: Extensive addition just completed. Contractor: Hammond & Co.
Refs: IB 22, 1 Apr 1880, 101

Name: ROBINSON, JOHN LOFTUS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, BLACKROCK, SION HILL, ST CATHERINE'S DOMINICAN CONVENT
Date: 1893-94
Nature: Additions, including additions to chapel, studio, and laundry. Contractor: William Conolly & Son.
Refs: Diary of JLR Mar-Jun 1893 (photocopy in IAA, Acc. 2006/011); IAA, PKS 0732, B15/79 (missing), B16/12, A07 (May 1893, p.438); design for grille exh. RHA 1894, no. 442

Name: CONOLLY, WILLIAM, & SON *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, BLACKROCK, SION HILL, ST CATHERINE'S DOMINICAN CONVENT
Date: 1893-94
Nature: Additions. Architect: J.L. Robinson
Refs: IAA, PKS 0732, B15/79, B16/12

Name: DOOLIN, BUTLER & DONNELLY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, BLACKROCK, SION HILL, ST CATHERINE'S DOMINICAN CONVENT
Date: 1902
Nature: Alterations.
Refs: IB 44, 14 Aug 1902, 1368

Name: POWELL, CHARLES B.
Building: CO. DUBLIN, BLACKROCK, SION HILL, ST CATHERINE'S DOMINICAN CONVENT
Date: 1915
Nature: New buildings begun, consisting of enlargement of ground floor, add. to refectory, larders, sculleries, dairy, boiler house. Contractor: M.J. Greene, Donnybrook.
Refs: IB 57, 19 Jun 1915, 285; Building News 108, 30 Jun 1915, 768

Name: CULLEN, THOMAS JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, BLACKROCK, SION HILL, ST CATHERINE'S DOMINICAN CONVENT
Date: 1927-1934
Nature: Additions. Contractor: Thos. Macken.
Refs: Drawings in IAA, T.J. Cullen Collection, 85/74; photocopies of plan and elevation in IAA, Jones File C167(ii); IAA, PKS 0360

Name: CULLEN, THOMAS JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, BLACKROCK, SION HILL, ST CATHERINE'S DOMINICAN CONVENT
Date: 1929;1933-4
Nature: Alts. & adds.
Refs: Drawings in IAA, T.J. Cullen Collection, 85/74

Name: FARRELL & SONS *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, BLACKROCK, SION HILL, ST CATHERINE'S DOMINICAN CONVENT
Date: ?
Nature: Statue of the Sacred Heart. By James Farrell.
Refs: W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 331