Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, SKERRIES, STRAND STREET GREAT, PUBLIC LIBRARY

Name: SCOTT, ANTHONY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, SKERRIES, STRAND STREET GREAT, PUBLIC LIBRARY
Date: 1908;1911
Nature: AS wins competition for design of new library, 1908. Opened 8 May 1911. Contractor: James Duff, Skerries.Cost: £10,000. (Grimes suggests that W.A. Scott may have 'had a hand' in the design.)
Refs: IB 50, 7 Mar 1908, 133; 51, 29 May 1909, 341; 52, 12 Nov 1910, 704; Brendan Grimes, Irish Carnegie Libraries: a catalogue and architectural history (1998), 236-239(illus.)

Name: MURPHY, EDWARD M.
Building: CO. DUBLIN, SKERRIES, STRAND STREET GREAT, PUBLIC LIBRARY
Date: 1936
Nature: Construction of lavatories.
Refs: IB 78, 8 Aug 1936, 718