Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TIPPERARY, THURLES, CATHEDRAL STREET, ST PATRICK'S DIOCESAN COLLEGE

Name: LEAHY, DENIS
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, THURLES, CATHEDRAL STREET, ST PATRICK'S DIOCESAN COLLEGE
Date: 1829-1837
Nature: DL engineer for same. Architect: Charles Frederick Anderson. FS laid Jul 1829 but only partially completed when opened in 1837.
Refs: Brendan O'Donoghue', In Search of fame and fortune: the Leahy family of engineers 1780-1888 (Dublin: Geography Publications, 2006), 37

Name: ANDERSON, CHARLES FREDERICK
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, THURLES, CATHEDRAL STREET, ST PATRICK'S DIOCESAN COLLEGE
Date: 1829-37
Nature: CFA wins competition and supervises construction between 1830 and 1831.  FS laid 6 Jul 1829.  Opened Oct 1837. For Rev. Dr O'Connor. Carpenter: Kiely? (see J. Philip McAleer, 'Keely, "The Irish Pugin of America"', |Irish Arts Review| 4, no. 3 (Autumn 1997), 23, n9)
Refs: List of works in undated engraved 'Architectural Circular' of CFA; Catholic Directory (1838), 356-7; Daniel Wilson Randle, A Question of Style: the Architectural Compeitition for the Central Building for the University of the South (MA thesis, University of Texas, 1978), 241

Name: DOOLIN, BUTLER & DONNELLY
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, THURLES, CATHEDRAL STREET, ST PATRICK'S DIOCESAN COLLEGE
Date: 1907
Nature: New wing about to be completed.
Refs: IB 49, 9 Feb,18 May 1907, 100,369,371

Name: SHEAHAN, PATRICK JOSEPH
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, THURLES, CATHEDRAL STREET, ST PATRICK'S DIOCESAN COLLEGE
Date: 1962-65
Nature: Extension. Cost: £180,000. Contractor: Malachy Burke, Galway.
Refs: IB 104, 27 Oct 1962, 821; 107, 17 & 31 Jul 1965, 533