Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, LANSDOWNE ROAD, IRISH RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION GROUND

Name: ORPEN, RICHARD FRANCIS CAULFEILD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, LANSDOWNE ROAD, IRISH RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION GROUND
Date: 1907
Nature: Alts., walls & entrances. Contractor: H. & J. Martin.
Refs: IB 49, 7 Sep 1907, 629

Name: DONNELLY & MOORE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, LANSDOWNE ROAD, IRISH RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION GROUND
Date: 1907;1912-13
Nature: Steel stand; new grandstands & enclosures.
Refs: IB 49, 5 Oct 1907, 693;54, 6 Jul 1912, 405; 55, 25 Oct 1913, 683

Name: DONNELLY, MOORE & KEATINGE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, LANSDOWNE ROAD, IRISH RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION GROUND
Date: 1925-26
Nature: Improvements, including new reinforced concrete stand to seat 4,300.  Contractors (for E stand): Humphreys, Ltd, St Stephen's Green.  For Irish Rugby Football Union.
Refs: IB 67, ? Aug 1925, 602; 68, 7 Apr 1926, 602; 69, 5 Mar 1927, 162;  Irish Times, 24 Jul 1926, 24 Feb 1927 (illus.);   Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture:  Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009), 10-13(illus.).

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, LANSDOWNE ROAD, IRISH RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION GROUND
Date: 1928-29
Nature: Additional entrances following recommendations by E. Bohane, director of the Royal Dublin Society.
Refs:  Irish Times, 26 Oct 1929.