Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COOMBE, NO. 081-84 (COOMBE HOSPITAL, OLD)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: FERGUSON, DUNCAN CAMPBELL
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COOMBE, NO. 081-84 (COOMBE HOSPITAL, OLD)
Date: 1872
Nature: First design by DCF (Costed at £7268) but design by James Franklin Fuller chosen instead?
Refs: IAA, PKS B05/46, B06/10, A06 (Jul 1872)

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COOMBE, NO. 081-84 (COOMBE HOSPITAL, OLD)
Date: 1872;1876-77
Nature: JFF produces 2nd (executed?) design, 1872 (Costed at £5,825). Builder: Henry Quinn. Additional buildings, 1876.   Hospital opened 12 May 1877, 'having been almost entirely rebuilt, enlarged and furnished complete, mainly throuthe liberality of Sir Arthur Guinness and his late father, Benjamin Lee Guinness'. Builder: Thomas Millard. (Demolished in late 1960s.)
Refs: IAA, PKS B05/46, B06/10, B07/37, A06 (Oct 1872); IB 19, 15 May 1877, 152;  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 19, no. 218, 1 Jun 1877, 184;  Irish Times, 25 Jul 1933..  

Name: MURRAY, ALBERT EDWARD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COOMBE, NO. 081-84 (COOMBE HOSPITAL, OLD)
Date: 1901
Nature: Remodelling of wards.
Refs: IB 43, 26 Sep 1901, 872

Name: HIGGINBOTHAM, FREDERICK WILLIAM
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COOMBE, NO. 081-84 (COOMBE HOSPITAL, OLD)
Date: 1909
Nature: New Pembroke Dispensary. Contrs: Whelan Bros., Arbour Hill.
Refs: IB 51, 12 Jun,7 Aug 1909, 374,501; 52, 19 Mar 1910, 181; B 96, 12 Jun 1909, 712 (advt. for tenders)

Name: BUTLER, JOHN GEOFFREY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COOMBE, NO. 081-84 (COOMBE HOSPITAL, OLD)
Date: 1949
Nature: Fire escape, by R.M. Butler & Co.
Refs: IB 91, 23 Jul 1949, 684