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 |