Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GLASNEVIN, PROSPECT CEMETERY, O'CONNELL MEMORIAL

Name: BYRNE, PATRICK
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GLASNEVIN, PROSPECT CEMETERY, O'CONNELL MEMORIAL
Date: 1851-1854
Nature: FS laid Sept 1854.
Refs: B 9, 27 Sep,6 Dec 1851, 610,775; 12, 7 Oct 1854, 526; 13, 2 Jun, 15 Sep 1855, 261,444

Name: PETRIE, GEORGE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GLASNEVIN, PROSPECT CEMETERY, O'CONNELL MEMORIAL
Date: 1851?
Nature: Proposed design for oratory, round tower and high cross on raised platform. Not executed as originally designed.
Refs: Freeman's Journal, 20 Apr 1865;  Jeanne Sheehy, The Rediscovery of Ireland's Past: the Celtic Revival 1830-1930 (1980), 58-60.

Name: MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GLASNEVIN, PROSPECT CEMETERY, O'CONNELL MEMORIAL
Date: 1865a
Nature: JJM prepares designs for same for O'Connell Committee but 'Cemeteries Committee were not adhering to that plan'.
Refs: Freeman's Journal, 20 Apr 1865.

Name: EARLEY & POWELLS *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GLASNEVIN, PROSPECT CEMETERY, O'CONNELL MEMORIAL
Date: 1869
Nature: O'Connell tomb in crypt under round tower.
Refs: IB 11, 15 Jun 1869, 144,145(illus.); Guide through Glasnevin (1879), 49-52

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GLASNEVIN, PROSPECT CEMETERY, O'CONNELL MEMORIAL
Date: 1907
Nature: Decoration of crypt by Robert Mannix, Westmoreland St. after problem of  'continued exudations from the walls' had been remedied. Celtic ornamentation. Mosaic floor of Irish marbles.
Refs: Irish Times, 13 Sep 1907.

Name: O'CONNELL, DANIEL
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GLASNEVIN, PROSPECT CEMETERY, O'CONNELL MEMORIAL
Date: ?
Nature: Supervised decoration of interior of crypt by Early & Powells.
Refs: Jeanne Sheehy, The Rediscovery of Ireland's Past: the Celtic Revival 1830-1930 (1980), 60.

Name: SHERIDAN, GEORGE PATRICK
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GLASNEVIN, PROSPECT CEMETERY, O'CONNELL MEMORIAL
Date: ?
Nature: Internal stairs.
Refs: Drawing in collection of Dublin Cemeteries Committee, 2010 (information from David Griffin).