Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, BALBRIGGAN, COURT HOUSE

Name: TATE, ALEXANDER
Building: CO. DUBLIN, BALBRIGGAN, COURT HOUSE
Date: 1846-48ca
Nature: New, 5-bay, 2-storey court house. Erected by Board of Works but claimed by AT to have been built 'mainly to my designs'. (Court house at Youghal Co. Cork identical.). Contractors sought, Mar 1846.
Refs: General Advertiser, 11 Apr 1846; 17th Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1849), 176; Christine Casey, 'Courthouses, Markethouses and Townhalls of Leinster', unpublished MA thesis, Department of History of Art, University College Dublin, 1982, 43, Pl. 9, citing set of unsigned and undated drawings on paper watermarked 1843 in NA, OPW5HC/4/610, and 'Report from the elect Committee on County and District Surveyors, with proceedings, minutes of evidence, appendix and index, 1857' in Parliamentary Papers, Vol. IX; Brendan O'Donoghue, The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 309