Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GRAFTON STREET, NO. 112-113 (NAVIGATION BOARD OR DUBLIN SOCIETY)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: MYERS, CHRISTOPHER [1]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GRAFTON STREET, NO. 112-113 (NAVIGATION BOARD OR DUBLIN SOCIETY)
Date: 1766-67
Nature: New development on 'ground formerly occupied by Earl of Mornington...opposite the house of the Provost of Trinity College'. Payment of £2200 to Myers by Dublin Society, with additional £375.16s.3d for drawing academies at rear.
Refs: Royal Dublin Society proceedings, 23 Jan,16 Feb,4 Dec 1766, and 2 Apr,18 Jun,2 Jul,29 Oct,3 Dec 1767 (information from Kenneth Severens); H.F. Berry, A History of the Royal Dublin Society (1915), 89-91(illus.); F. O'Dwyer, 'Making connections in Georgian Ireland', BIGS 38 (1996-97), 14-15;  Frederick O'Dwyer, 'In search of Christopher Myers' in Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill, eds., Studies in the Gothic Revival (Dublin, 2008), 94-98.