Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, ROYAL HIBERNIAN MILITARY SCHOOL

Name: COOLEY, THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, ROYAL HIBERNIAN MILITARY SCHOOL
Date: 1771
Nature: Chapel designed by TC, who 'may also have designed the hospital [ie. the school]' (Casey).
Refs: Drawings in IAA, Murray Collection, nos. 714-715;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 302,303. 

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, ROYAL HIBERNIAN MILITARY SCHOOL
Date: 1806-09;1812
Nature: Wings; infirmary, for Governors of Hibernian School for Soldiers' Children.
Refs: Drawings dated between 1808 and 1812 in IAA, Murray Collection, nos. 717-752 (see Murray Collection catalogue, pp. 218-224);  copy of etter from Francis Johnston to Governors, re building costs, 30 Oct 1810, in PRONI D207/20/30;  Francis Johnston, 'Hibernian School Statement respecting the Building Estimates and Expenditure from the commencement in May 1806 to January 5, 1811', PRONI, D207/20/32.;  Whitelaw, Warburton & Walsh, History of Dublin (1818), I, 570,606; 'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 3; PRONI D207/20/30,32 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 302.

Name: OWEN, JACOB
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, ROYAL HIBERNIAN MILITARY SCHOOL
Date: 1850
Nature: Catholic chapel; 'small and well-made Gothic Revival hall and chancel with projecting NE vestry, NW sacristy and S porch' (Casey).
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 303.

Name: OWEN, JACOB
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, ROYAL HIBERNIAN MILITARY SCHOOL
Date: 1851
Nature: Addition of school room on central axis.
Refs: Drawings in NA, OPW records, F.12.1-F.12.4

Name: DARLEY, FREDERICK [2]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, ROYAL HIBERNIAN MILITARY SCHOOL
Date: 1851
Nature: Proposed new school rooms.
Refs: B 9, 18 Jan 1851, 46

Name: OWEN, ENOCH TREVOR
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, ROYAL HIBERNIAN MILITARY SCHOOL
Date: 1860
Nature: ?Addition of chancel and vestry to Protestant chapel?
Refs: Drawing(s), monogrammed T.O., in NA, OPW records, old ref. F.12.1-4

Name: OWEN, JAMES HIGGINS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, ROYAL HIBERNIAN MILITARY SCHOOL
Date: 1861
Nature: 'a building affording increased dormitory accommodation'
Refs: DB 3, 15 Jul 1861, 578

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, ROYAL HIBERNIAN MILITARY SCHOOL
Date: 1862
Nature: Non-commissioned officers' block.
Refs: Drawings, initalled by R.J. Stirling and R.A. Gibbons, 1862, in NA, OPW drawings collection, old ref. F.12.1-4

Name: OWEN, ENOCH TREVOR
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, ROYAL HIBERNIAN MILITARY SCHOOL
Date: 1865
Nature: Gates to Church Ave.
Refs: Drawing(s) in NA, OPW records, old refs. F.12.1-4

Name: OWEN, ENOCH TREVOR
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, ROYAL HIBERNIAN MILITARY SCHOOL
Date: 1877
Nature: Enlargement of Catholic chapel. According to Casey, ETO  added another bay and bellcote to W end, ca 1870.
Refs: Drawing(s) in NA, OPW records, old ref. F.12.1-4;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 303.

Name: PENTLAND, JOHN HOWARD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, ROYAL HIBERNIAN MILITARY SCHOOL
Date: 1900
Nature: Workshop. For Board of Public Works.
Refs: IB 42, 1 Jul 1900, 403

Name: MELLON, THOMAS JOHN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, ROYAL HIBERNIAN MILITARY SCHOOL
Date: 1904
Nature: New infants' school. Estimated cost: £655. Contractor: G. Langley. (Design given to G.W. Crowe by Casey).
Refs: IAA, PKS B20/27, A08 (Oct 1904);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 303.

Name: MELLON, THOMAS JOHN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, ROYAL HIBERNIAN MILITARY SCHOOL
Date: 1906;1908-10
Nature: Gymnasium, 1906; new recreation room and library, 1908, &c. (Design given to G.W. Crowe by Casey). Tenders invited for carrying out additions and laterations, Aug 1909.
Refs: IAA, PKS B08/96, B21/21 A08 (Apr 1908); IB 48, 17 Nov 1906, 942; 50, 14 Nov 1908, 715;  Irish Times, 11 Aug 1909;  Frederick O'Dwyer, 'The architecture of the Board of Public Works 1831-1923', Public Works: the architecture of the Office of Public Works 1831-1987 (AAI, 1987), 26;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 303.