Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE



Name: BURGH, THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1704-1718
Nature: Various works, including riding house, arsenal/magazine. Paid £1000 for work on Dublin Castle Aug 1715.
Refs: British Library Egerton MS. 917, ff.212-215 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44), NA/PRO SP 63,375, f.128 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); NA/PRO(Kew) SO I/15 p.296 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Marsh's Library MS Z2.1.10 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); British Library Add MSS 9717, f.124 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); JHCI 2, clviii ff., cclv ff., III, iv, cvii, clvii &c. (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Rolf Loeber, A Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Ireland 1600-1720 (1981), 34-35

Name: PEARCE, EDWARD LOVETT (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1731p
Nature: Addition of office at W end of State Apartments. N and SE ranges on Craig's 'list of candidates for buildings in some way connected to Pearce'
Refs: See Howard Colvin and Maurice Craig, Architectural Drawings in the library of Elton Hall by Sir John Vanbrugh and Sir Edward Lovett Pearce (1964), 9(Nos.60,61),,13(no.91),Pl.47a,b,c; John Cornforth, 'Dublin Castle - II', Country Life 148, 6 Aug 1970, 342-3; Maurice Craig, 'The quest for Sir Edward Lovett Pearce', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 12 (1996), 33

Name: DOBBS, ARTHUR
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1738-1741
Nature: AD responsible for new entrance with tripartite gate, 1738-41, rebuilding of NE corner of Upper Yard, 1742, and armoury, 1742
Refs: NA/PRO (Kew) T1/208 ff 114-7, T1/328/77, T14/12/122, T/14/12, p.274, SO 1/18 fol. 285, SO 1/19 f.144 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); JHCI 5, x- (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); E. McParland, Public Architecture in Ireland: 1680-1760 (2001), 95,106,219n76

Name: ARCHBOLD, PIERCE *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1743-44;1753-1755;1757;1758
Nature: Works at same (including ornamenting castle for King's birthday).
Refs: Thomas Eyre letter book and general accompt, IAA Acc. 86/149, I/70,78; II/4,5,6,9,12,13,14,18,20,24,25,26,27,28,29,31,32,34,36,37,40,45,46,47,48,49,55,56,57,59,61,64,66,71,72,73,77,78,82,84,89,95,99,102,104,107,108,109,111,113,116,117,119,120,123,126,128; information from Kernneth Severns, 1992

Name: SHEEHAN, DAVID *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1743;1744;1746
Nature: Repairs, 1743, 1744. Reconstruction of portico on S side of courtyard, 1746, for which paid £341.7s.7d.
Refs: H. Potterton, 'William Kidwell, sculptor,…and some contemporary mason-sculptors in Ireland', BIGS 15 (Jul-Dec 1972), 100

Name: NEVILL, ARTHUR JONES
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1749-50
Nature: Draws plan for Bedford Tower range.
Refs: NA/PRO (Kew) T1/337/95 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); E. McParland, Public Architecture in Ireland: 1680-1760 (2001), 174

Name: NOST, JOHN (VAN) [2]*
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1753
Nature: Statues of Justice and Mars on piers of gate leading into Upper Castle Yard. .JVN paid for 'statuary work' at Dublin Castle for King's birthday, 1753..
Refs: MS. letter and account books of Thomas Eyre in IAA (Acc. 86/149), II, 14; W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II, 487

Name: EYRE, THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1753
Nature: Requests money to pay for repair of 'Round, Square and Water Closets'.
Refs: NA/PRO (Kew) T1/354/48,49 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: EYRE, THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1756
Nature: Builds (and designs?) surveyor general's house.
Refs: NA/PRO (Kew), T1/367/48-51, T14/13/238 (E.McP)

Name: EYRE, THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1757a
Nature: TE prepares plans for building laboratory for preparing ammunition in Lower Castle Yard. Payment of £405.8s.4d for same, 1757.
Refs: NA/PRO (Kew) T1/376/56-59, T1/379/73,74 , T14/13/311

Name: JARRATT, JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1758
Nature: Guard House on N. side of Upper Castle Yard, completed 1758.
Refs: Elevation and plan, sighed 'Joseph Jarrat. Archt.' in Jarratt album, IAA, Acc. 84/51; N. Sheaff, 'Jarratt and Rococo', Irish Arts Review I, no. 3 (Autumn, 1984), 51

Name: EYRE, THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1758
Nature: TE ordered to prepare plans for Record Offices.
Refs: PRONI D562/7713A & B (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: EYRE, THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1758
Nature: TE to rebuild garden front.
Refs: NA/PRO (Kew) T1/13/345 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: EYRE, THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1758
Nature: TE involved in repair of same
Refs: NA/PRO (Kew) T1/384/101 and SO/1/21 f.148 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: EYRE, THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1758
Nature: TE to build new guard room.
Refs: NA/PRO (Kew) T14/13/315 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: EYRE, THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1758
Nature: TE to complete building on N side of castle for Linen Board and 2nd Secretary.
Refs: NA/PRO (Kew) T14/13/314,348 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: EYRE, THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1758p
Nature: Rebuilding of garden front. Paid for same, 1761
Refs: NA/PRO (Kew) T14/13/345 and SO/1/21 f.156, SO/1/22 f.88 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: JARRATT, JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1759
Nature: Alts. and adds. to State Apartments on S. side of Upper Castle Yard.
Refs: Elevation of garden front, signed 'Joseph Jarratt. Archt.', plan of new rooms & corridor on first floor (unsigned), plan and section of first floor corridor (unsigned) and design for coffered ceiling of corridor, signed 'Joseph Jarratt. Invt.' in Jarratt album, IAA, 84/51; N. Sheaff, 'Jarratt and Rococo', Irish Arts Review I, no. 3 (Autumn, 1984), 51 (illus. of S. elevation of State Apartments)

Name: EYRE, THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1761
Nature: TE paid for work on castle and for rebuilding state apartments.
Refs: JHCI 7, App. V (27 Oct 1761) and App. CXXXII (1761) (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: PENROSE, THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1780s
Nature: Conversion of Battle Axe Hall into Presence Chamber.
Refs: Frederick O'Dwyer, 'Making connections in Georgian Ireland', BIGS 37 (1996-97), 18

Name: SPROULE, SAMUEL [1]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1782
Nature: SS 'employed to fit up the Arsenal in the Lower Castle Yard for the Purpose of the National Bank' (not executed)
Refs: Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 10-12 Dec 1782; Freeman's Journal, 10-12 Dec 1782 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: DE GREE, PETER *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1788-89
Nature: Commissioned by Marquess of Buckingham to paint reliefs of 4 Seasons as overdoors for Presence Chamber, but only completed Autumn before death.
Refs: Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 2-4 Dec 1788; W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 271

Name: WALDRÉ, VINCENT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1789p
Nature: Decoration of St Patrick's Hall. Unfinished at time of VW's death.
Refs: Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 18-20 Sep 1788; 20-23 Sep 1789; 29-31 Oct 1789; Memorial of Mary Waldré to the Lord Lieutenant, Charles, Earl Whitworth, written between Aug 1814 and Jan 1815, NA/SPO 559/437/5; T.J. Mulvany, ed., The Life of James Gandon, Esq. (1846), 143-4; W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II, 495; John Gilmartin, 'Vincent Waldré's ceiling paintings at Dublin Castle', Apollo 95 (Jan 1972), 42-47; E. McParland, 'A Note on Vincent Waldré', Apollo95 (Nov 1972), 467; James White & Kevin Bright, Treasures of the Royal Dublin Society (1998), 24,38(illus.); Róisín Kennedy, Dublin Castle Art (1999), 18-23(illus.)..

Name: DARLEY, GEORGE [1]*
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1795ca-1800ca
Nature: GD contracts to build Chief Secretary's office.
Refs: NA/SPO 516/94/8 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: DARLEY, FREDERICK [1]*
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1796
Nature: Bryan Bolger measures stonework at Armory by FD.
Refs: Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/128

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1807
Nature: FJ submits plan for treasury to Board of Works (?not carried out)
Refs: Board of Works Minute Book 2, 10 Mar 1807 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1808
Nature: Repair to roof of St Patrick's Hall.
Refs: Board of Works Minute Book 2, 29 Jul 1808 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: DARLEY, FREDERICK [1]*
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1810
Nature: FD's stonework measured by Stitt.
Refs: Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/128

Name: STAPLETON, GEORGE *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1810;1812;1816;1821
Nature: Various works by GS at state apartments and elsewhere measured by Bryan Bolger. Also various works in Upper Castle Yard and West Yard for visit of Geo IV.
Refs: NA/PRO Bolger MSS, 1A/58/127,128

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1813-1817
Nature: Alterations in Wardrobe Tower for the records.
Refs: Whitelaw, Warburton & Walsh, History of Dublin (1818), I, 667; II, 1013,1014; DB 1, 1 Oct 1859, 131

Name: OWEN, JACOB
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1833-34
Nature: Castellated stable and coach house.
Refs: F. O'Dwyer, 'Building empires: architecture, politics and the Board of Works 1760-1860', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 5 (2002), 150,151(illus.)

Name: OWEN, JACOB
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1837
Nature: Cavalry Guard House (1837) and riding school.(Demolished in 1960s)
Refs: F. O'Dwyer, 'Building empires: architecture, politics and the Board of Works 1760-1860', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 5 (2002), 152

Name: OWEN, JACOB
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1838
Nature: Constabulary barracks.(Extension of Thomas Eyre's house of 1756.)
Refs: F. O'Dwyer, 'Building empires: architecture, politics and the Board of Works 1760-1860', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 5 (2002), 151(illus.),152

Name: OWEN, JACOB
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1838-49
Nature: Remodelling of state apartments.
Refs: J. Owen, 'An account of the mode adopted for raising the roof of the Presence Chamber, Dublin Castle', TICEI 3 (1848-49), 32-34; F. O'Dwyer, 'Building empires: architecture, politics and the Board of Works 1760-1860', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 5 (2002), 152

Name: OWEN, JACOB
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1840-41
Nature: Extension of Chief Secretary's Office.
Refs: F. O'Dwyer, 'Building empires: architecture, politics and the Board of Works 1760-1860', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 5 (2002), 152

Name: HARDMAN, JOHN, & CO *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1860
Nature: Pulpit in Chapel Royal.
Refs: DB 2, 1 Jun 1860, 274

Name: ORPEN, RICHARD FRANCIS CAULFIELD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1897
Nature: Mural tablet commemorating Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in St Patrick's Hall. For Lord Lieutenant, Earl Cadogan.
Refs: IB 46, 27 Aug 1904, 548

Name: WEBB, ASTON (SIR) #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1909
Nature: Supervision of installation ofnew drainage system and reconstruction of old servants' quarters.
Refs: Freeman's Journal, 15 Dec 1914.

Name: ROBINSON, ANDREW
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1911
Nature: Improvements for visit of King George V, including new carriage entrance, Lower Castle Yard, new supper room on W side of Upper Castle Yard, redecoration of State Apartments, removal of paint and cement from coumns of portico. Builders: H. & J. Martin. Decorators: J. & P. Good.
Refs: IB 53, 18 Feb,8 Jul 1911, 114,445; Building News101, 7 Jul 1911, 35

Name: LEASK, HAROLD GRAHAM
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1911
Nature: Design for supper room, drawn by HGL, with M.J. Burke.
Refs: Designs in NA, OPW5HC/1/62

Name: BURKE, MARTIN JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: 1911
Nature: Supper room. With H.G. Leask for OPW
Refs: OPW drawings collection F.4.2

Name: OWEN, JACOB
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: Modernization of old Treasury building.
Refs: Frederick O'Dwyer, 'The architecture of the Board of Public Works 1831-1923', Public Works: the architecture of the Office of Public Works 1831-1987 (AAI, 1987), 12

Name: MITCHELL, HUGH HENRY ##
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: Work on same.
Refs: 'For payments for work on Dublin Castle, Leixlip - see House of Commons Index, a/cs & Papers no. 199' (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: MALLET, ROBERT [2]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: Ventilation and hot water heating system.
Refs: Min.Proc.Inst.CE 68 (1881-82), 299

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: Redevelopment of Ship St area of Castle precincts. With William Murray.
Refs: C. O'Connor & J. O'Regan, eds., Public Works: the architecture of the Office of Public Works 1837-1987 (AAI, 1987), 11

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: Replacement of dormers in Upper Castle Yard with an attic storey. With William Murray.
Refs: C. O'Connor & J. O'Regan, eds., Public Works: the architecture of the Office of Public Works 1837-1987 (AAI, 1987), 11

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: Quartermaster General's office
Refs: 'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 3

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: Adjutant General's office
Refs: 'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 3

Name: JARRATT, JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: Side elevation of former Genealogical Office on N. side of Upper Castle Yard.
Refs: Elevation (unsigned) in Jarratt album, IAA, Acc. 84/51; N. Sheaff, 'Jarratt and Rococo', Irish Arts Review I, no. 3 (Autumn, 1984), 51