Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GRAFTON STREET, NO. 112-113 (NAVIGATION BOARD OR DUBLIN SOCIETY)
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. |