Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BENBURB STREET, COLLINS BARRACKS (FORMERLY ROYAL BARRACKS)
| Name: | BURGH, THOMAS |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BENBURB STREET, COLLINS BARRACKS (FORMERLY ROYAL BARRACKS) |
| Date: | 1707a-1710ca |
| Nature: | Paid £13,000 for barracks, 1707-1709; paid £3093-14s-9¼ to finish same, c. 1710. |
| Refs: | Rolf Loeber, A Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Ireland 1600-1720 (1981), 37; Mairead Dunleavy, Dublin Barracks: a brief history of Collins Barracks, Dublin (National Museum of Ireland, 2002), 14-19(illus.); Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 247-251. |
| Name: | NEVILL, ARTHUR JONES |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BENBURB STREET, COLLINS BARRACKS (FORMERLY ROYAL BARRACKS) |
| Date: | 1746ca |
| Nature: | Chapel begun to designs of AJN. (Converted into riding house later in 18th century) |
| Refs: | E. McParland, Public Architecture in Ireland: 1680-1760 (2001), 125; see also Kenneth Ferguson, 'The Riding House with a Steeple: a puzzle connected with Dublin Barracks in the age of Lord Chesterfield', Irish Sword Vol. 25, No. 100 (Winter, 2006), 121-136 |
| Name: | ARCHBOLD, PIERCE * |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BENBURB STREET, COLLINS BARRACKS (FORMERLY ROYAL BARRACKS) |
| Date: | 1753 |
| Nature: | PA employed on new magazine. |
| Refs: | For references to Archbold including above see Thomas Eyre letter book and general accompt, IAA Acc. 86/149, I/70,78; II/4, passim. |
| Name: | EYRE, THOMAS |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BENBURB STREET, COLLINS BARRACKS (FORMERLY ROYAL BARRACKS) |
| Date: | 1758 |
| Nature: | TE paid £17,964.15s.7¼d. for repairs to same. |
| Refs: | NA/PRO (Kew) T14/14/279 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44) |
| Name: | KEENE, HENRY # |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BENBURB STREET, COLLINS BARRACKS (FORMERLY ROYAL BARRACKS) |
| Date: | 1766-1771 |
| Nature: | Rebuilding of Palatine Square for the Barrack Board.. |
| Refs: |
Frederick O’Dwyer, ‘Architecture, Politics and the Board of Works, 1760-1860’, Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 5 (2002), 114-121; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 248. |
| Name: | JOHNSTON, FRANCIS |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BENBURB STREET, COLLINS BARRACKS (FORMERLY ROYAL BARRACKS) |
| Date: | 1816 |
| Nature: | Arches and guard houses in perimeter wall of barracks on Benburb St. |
| Refs: |
Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 251. |
| Name: | PAPWORTH, GEORGE |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BENBURB STREET, COLLINS BARRACKS (FORMERLY ROYAL BARRACKS) |
| Date: | 1827 |
| Nature: | Proposed alts., consisting of enlargement of parade ground, in connection with opening the quays, approved by Marquess Wellesley, 1827. |
| Refs: | Designs exh. RHA 1827, nos. 225,229; 1836, no. 228; 1837, no. 219 |
| Name: | PAPWORTH, JOHN THOMAS |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BENBURB STREET, COLLINS BARRACKS (FORMERLY ROYAL BARRACKS) |
| Date: | 1830 |
| Nature: | JTP exhibits 'Design for a Triumphal Arch, as an entrance to the Royal Barracks, on the proposed new line of quay to the King's Bridge...as laid down by Mr G. Papworth' at RHA. |
| Refs: | RHA 1830, no. 272 |
| Name: | MYERS, CHRISTOPHER [1] |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BENBURB STREET, COLLINS BARRACKS (FORMERLY ROYAL BARRACKS) |
| Date: | ? |
| Nature: | Work on Palatine Sq. |
| Refs: | JHCI 7, ccccxlvii (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44) |