Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LAOIS, PORTLAOISE, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM

Name: MURRAY, WILLIAM [1]
Building: CO. LAOIS, PORTLAOISE, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1831-33
Nature: New '2nd class' asylum for 100 patients. Opened 14 May 1833.
Refs: Plans &c., in IAA, Workhouse Drawings Collection, Acc. 85/138.116; RHA 1831, no. 263; 4th Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1836), 7; Jill Lever, ed., Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects L-N (1973), 101;

Name: BUTLER, JOHN STERLING
Building: CO. LAOIS, PORTLAOISE, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1863-1866
Nature: Additions and improvements
Refs: DB 5, 15 Mar,15 Apr 1863, 54,70; 8, 15 Jun 1866, 160

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. LAOIS, PORTLAOISE, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1892-98
Nature: Proposed RC chapel, £2,559, and other additions, including dining room, £3,000. Builder: J.B. Healy. Further additions 1894. £24,729, and 1895, £5,066.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0724, 0744, B15/70 (missing), B16/24, B17/01, B18/13, A07 (Aug, Nov 1892, Nov 1894, May 1895, pp.409,444,451); IB 35, 15 Jan 1893, 22; 38, 1 Aug 1896, 161; 48th Report on … Lunatic Asylums(1899), 32

Name: SHEAHAN, PATRICK JOSEPH
Building: CO. LAOIS, PORTLAOISE, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1933
Nature: Improvements in progress. Contractor: John Fitzpatrick, Coote St, Portlaoise.
Refs: IB 75, 7 Oct 1933, 865

Name: SHEAHAN, PATRICK JOSEPH
Building: CO. LAOIS, PORTLAOISE, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1936-37;1938;1942;1956;1961
Nature: New hospital, 1936-7. Clerk's residence, 1938-39. Extension, 1942. Fire escapes, 1956. 3 houses on Dublin Rd and 1 on Stradbally Rd for medical staff, 1961.
Refs: IB 78, 3 Oct 1936, 901; 79, 1 May 1937, 406; 80, 26 Nov 1938, 998; 81, 21 Jan 1939, 69; 84, 9 May 1942, 181; 98, 28 Jan 1956, 76; 103, 17 Sep,14 Oct 1961, 706,822