Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE

Name: ENSOR, JOHN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE
Date: 1762
Nature: Stated by Ferrar to have been planned by JE (with Ralph Ward), for 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam, but,according to Casey, 'there is no supporting evidence for this claim'.
Refs: IB 20, 15 May 1878, 145, citing John Ferrar, A View of Ancient and Modern Dublin (1796); Maurice Craig, Dublin 1660-1860 (1st edition, 1952), 190;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 577.

Name: BARKER, JONATHAN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE
Date: 1762a
Nature: JB involved with John Smith in laying out square.
Refs: J.H. Andrews, Plantation Acres (Ulster Historical Foundation, 1985), 194

Name: SPROULE, SAMUEL [1]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE
Date: 1780a
Nature: Merrion Square E and Upper and Lower Mount Sts laid out by SS for Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam.
Refs: John Ferrar, A View of Ancient and Modern Dublin (1796), 73