Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WICKLOW, BALTINGLASS, TECHNICAL SCHOOL (OLD)

Name: WAKE, RICHARD
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BALTINGLASS, TECHNICAL SCHOOL (OLD)
Date: 1914
Nature: RW architect for conversion of old bridewell into technical school. Tenders invited, Apr-May 1914. (Bridewell had been sold in 1898 to consortium of gentry, clergy, shopkeepsers &c., which reconstructed it to contain racket court, reading- and billiard rooms. See Kildare Archaeological Society Journal 5 (1906-7), 336.)
Refs: Freeman's Journal, 20 Apr 1914; Wicklow Newsletter, 2 May 1914;  IB 55, 6 Dec 1913, 776; 56, 25 Apr,9 May 1914, 264,296; B 106, 8 May 1914, 573.