Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, CORNMARKET STREET, CORN MARKET (OLD)

Name: HALFPENNY, WILLIAM #
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, CORNMARKET STREET, CORN MARKET (OLD)
Date: 1739
Nature: WH paid 40s. 'for the draft he made of the Cornmarket'.
Refs: R. Caulfield, ed., Council Book of the Corporation of Cork (1876), 585

Name: DAUNT, THOMAS *
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, CORNMARKET STREET, CORN MARKET (OLD)
Date: 1739
Nature: Prepares plans for, with John Coltsman. Coltsman and Daunt consulted re plans (theirs or W. Halfpenny's?), 3 Dec 1739, which were approved.
Refs: R. Caulfield (ed.) The Council Book of the Corporation of the City of Cork (1876), 591,626,591,626

Name: COLTSMAN, JOHN
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, CORNMARKET STREET, CORN MARKET (OLD)
Date: 1739-1740
Nature: Prepares plans for, with Thomas Daunt. Coltsman and Daunt consulted re plans (theirs or W. Halfpenny's?), 3 Dec 1739, which were approved. Upper storey removed, 18[?]43, when 3 pediments and central block added. Lawson says Corn Market was converted into Bridewell, q.v. but Tuckey says it was demolished, 1811.
Refs: Francis H. Tuckey, The County and City of Cork Remembrancer (Cork, 1837), 130,237;  R. Caulfield (ed.) The Council Book of the Corporation of the City of Cork (1876), 584,590,591,626; J.P Lawson, Gazetteer of Ireland (1842), 287; Country Life 142, 3 Aug 1967, 253.