Selected: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, CORN STORE (MSSRS. BANNATYNE)
Name: | COX, WILLIAM SIDNEY |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, CORN STORE (MSSRS. BANNATYNE) |
Date: | 1873-1874 |
Nature: | New 5-storey corn store built of local limestone . Facing river with 'massive square tower…of Italian character'. Expected cost £6,395. Builders: McCarthy & Guerin. Dispute over payment at completion of building, which contractor's men occupied until forcibly ejected. Partial collapse, 1875, caused by expansion of grain in the bins. |
Refs: | IB 15, 15 Jan 1873, 25,29; 16, 15 Oct 1874, 285; 17, 1 Feb 1875, 39; bill of measurements for extras, 5 Nov 1874, and credits in IAA PKS B06/50, 723ff; PKS account books A06, Nov 1874 (old ref. C/46) |