Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BENBURB STREET, COLLINS BARRACKS (FORMERLY ROYAL BARRACKS)

Name: BURGH, THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BENBURB STREET, COLLINS BARRACKS (FORMERLY ROYAL BARRACKS)
Date: 1707a-1710ca
Nature: Paid £13,000 for barracks, 1707-1709; paid £3093-14s-9¼ to finish same, c. 1710.
Refs: Rolf Loeber, A Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Ireland 1600-1720 (1981), 37; Mairead Dunleavy, Dublin Barracks: a brief history of Collins Barracks, Dublin (National Museum of Ireland, 2002), 14-19(illus.); Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 247-251.

Name: NEVILL, ARTHUR JONES
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BENBURB STREET, COLLINS BARRACKS (FORMERLY ROYAL BARRACKS)
Date: 1746ca
Nature: Chapel begun to designs of AJN. (Converted into riding house later in 18th century)
Refs: E. McParland, Public Architecture in Ireland: 1680-1760 (2001), 125; see also Kenneth Ferguson, 'The Riding House with a Steeple: a puzzle connected with Dublin Barracks in the age of Lord Chesterfield', Irish Sword Vol. 25, No. 100 (Winter, 2006), 121-136;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 249-250.

Name: ARCHBOLD, PIERCE *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BENBURB STREET, COLLINS BARRACKS (FORMERLY ROYAL BARRACKS)
Date: 1753
Nature: PA employed on new magazine.
Refs: For references to Archbold including above see Thomas Eyre letter book and general accompt, IAA Acc. 86/149, I/70,78; II/4, passim.

Name: EYRE, THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BENBURB STREET, COLLINS BARRACKS (FORMERLY ROYAL BARRACKS)
Date: 1758
Nature: TE paid £17,964.15s.7¼d. for repairs to same.
Refs: NA/PRO (Kew) T14/14/279 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: KEENE, HENRY #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BENBURB STREET, COLLINS BARRACKS (FORMERLY ROYAL BARRACKS)
Date: 1766-1771
Nature: Rebuilding of Palatine Square for the Barrack Board..
Refs: Frederick O’Dwyer, ‘Architecture, Politics and the Board of Works, 1760-1860’,  Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 5 (2002), 114-121;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 248.

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BENBURB STREET, COLLINS BARRACKS (FORMERLY ROYAL BARRACKS)
Date: 1816
Nature: Arches and guard houses in perimeter wall of barracks on Benburb St.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 251.

Name: PAPWORTH, GEORGE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BENBURB STREET, COLLINS BARRACKS (FORMERLY ROYAL BARRACKS)
Date: 1827
Nature: Proposed alts., consisting of enlargement of parade ground, in connection with opening the quays, approved by Marquess Wellesley, 1827.
Refs: Designs exh. RHA 1827, nos. 225,229; 1836, no. 228; 1837, no. 219

Name: PAPWORTH, JOHN THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BENBURB STREET, COLLINS BARRACKS (FORMERLY ROYAL BARRACKS)
Date: 1830
Nature: JTP exhibits 'Design for a Triumphal Arch, as an entrance to the Royal Barracks, on the proposed new line of quay to the King's Bridge...as laid down by Mr G. Papworth' at RHA.
Refs: RHA 1830, no. 272

Name: MYERS, CHRISTOPHER [1]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BENBURB STREET, COLLINS BARRACKS (FORMERLY ROYAL BARRACKS)
Date: ?
Nature: Work on Palatine Sq.
Refs: JHCI 7, ccccxlvii (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)