Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD (BALLSBRIDGE), ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY
Name: | WILKINSON, GEORGE |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD (BALLSBRIDGE), ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY |
Date: | 1879-1880 |
Nature: | New show hall, &c., for Royal Dublin Society being proceeded with rapidly. Show hall building (277 x 167 ft.) contains hall of 242 x 160 ft. Entrance portion will contain boardroom, offices, cloakroom &c. Moulded stone and brick pediment. Roof will rest on rolled iron girders supported by cast iron columns. Contractor: Collen Bros. Amount of contract between £11,000 and £12,000. |
Refs: | Letter of application requesting Committee of Agriculture to consider Patterson & Kempster as surveyors to new buildings, 17 Dec 1879, in IAA, PKS B09/20; Irish Times, 5 Mar 1880, 6; 4 Jun 1880, 6; 13 Sep 1880, 7; IB 22, 5 Sep 1880, 264-5; Henry F. Berry, History of the Royal Dublin Society (1915), 311 |
Name: | DEANE, THOMAS NEWENHAM, & SON |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD (BALLSBRIDGE), ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY |
Date: | 1885 |
Nature: | Gasfitting in Agricultural Hall. Contractor: Edmundson. |
Refs: | IAA, PKS B12/31 |
Name: | OWEN, CHARLES ASTLEY |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD (BALLSBRIDGE), ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY |
Date: | 1895 |
Nature: | Water chute for Ierne Bazaar, May 1895. |
Refs: |
Irish Times, 3 May 1895. |
Name: | ORPEN, RICHARD FRANCIS CAULFEILD |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD (BALLSBRIDGE), ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY |
Date: | 1896 |
Nature: | RFCO designer of Cyclopia Grand Fete and Bazaar in aid of building fund and amalgamation of Opthalmic Hospital, Lincoln Place, and National eye & Ear Infirmary, Molesworth St. Work carried out by Mssrs. Womersley of Leeds, 'the most famous bazaar architects in the world'. Took place 19-23 May 1896. |
Refs: |
Irish Times, 23 Mar, 7,8,19 May 1896. |
Name: | MCCARTHY, PATRICK HARNETT |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD (BALLSBRIDGE), ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY |
Date: | 1903-04 |
Nature: | Arts & Industries Exhibition Hall (cost about £5000) Approaching completion. Contractor: J.S. Goodfellow. For RDS. Iron columns by McGloughlin, Great Brunswick St. Also improvements to East Hall, including , new telegraph offices, cloak rooms, third-class dining and refreshment rooms.. Contractor: A. & J. Maln(?). |
Refs: |
IAA, PKS B20/12 and A08 (Dec 1903); IB 46, 18 Jun 1904, 374; 47, 14 Jan 1905, 8; Irish Times, 6 Aug 1904. |
Name: | MCCARTHY & ANDERSON |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD (BALLSBRIDGE), ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY |
Date: | 1905 |
Nature: | Extensive premises, permanent stalls &c., to replace those destroyed in recent fire. |
Refs: | IB 47, 2,30 Dec 1905, 878,946; 48, 20 Oct 1906, 848 |
Name: | SCOTT, WILLIAM ALPHONSUS |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD (BALLSBRIDGE), ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY |
Date: | 1913 |
Nature: | WAS designs Ovada Bazaar in which space is 'laid out architecturally as a reproduction of the the town of Ovada in Italy'. Was this in RDS Hall? |
Refs: | IB 55, 7 Jun 1913, 365 |
Name: | O'CALLAGHAN & WEBB |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD (BALLSBRIDGE), ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY |
Date: | 1925 |
Nature: | Adds. and alts. - including enlargement of Art Industries Hall and approach corridor - consequent on move from Leinster House. Government grant of £68,000. |
Refs: | IB 67, 18 Apr,8 Aug 1925, 285,624; 68, 9 Jan 1926, 5; AJ 64, 18 Aug 1926, 210 |
Name: | O'CALLAGHAN & WEBB |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD (BALLSBRIDGE), ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY |
Date: | 1926-27 |
Nature: | Conversion of Industries Hall into concert hall; creation of reading, writing and smoking rooms in W wing of entrance block. Reconstruction of E. wing and new granite front. New ferro-concrete stand in jumping enclosure (Contractor for latter: Collen Bros; steel framework by A. & J. Main, Ltd, 11 Leinster St.) |
Refs: | IB 68, 9 Jun,27 Nov 1926, 891; 69, 20 Aug 1927, 601(illus.); Irish Times, 5 May 1927 (illus.); AJ 73, 17 Jun 1931, 849,858 |
Name: | O'CALLAGHAN, LUCIUS |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD (BALLSBRIDGE), ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY |
Date: | 1928 |
Nature: | Designed board room carpet, executed by Miss Gleeson of the Dun Emer Guild. Blue with old gold border and arms of 4 provinces of Ireland in corners. |
Refs: |
Information from David Griffin, 2009; Irish Times, 22 Jun 1928.. |
Name: | O'CALLAGHAN & GIRON |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD (BALLSBRIDGE), ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY |
Date: | 1934 |
Nature: | L O'C prepares plans for proposed reconstruction of present South Hall for industrial purposes. |
Refs: | IB 76, 11 Aug 1934, 661 |
Name: | O'CALLAGHAN & GIRON |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD (BALLSBRIDGE), ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY |
Date: | 1954 |
Nature: | Extension to Simmonscourt Hall for RDS. |
Refs: | IB 96, 20 Nov,4 Dec 1954, 1145,1207 |
Name: | GIRON, LOUIS FRANÇOIS |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD (BALLSBRIDGE), ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY |
Date: | 1956;1959 |
Nature: | Cafeteria, kitchen & sanitary accommodation, 1956. Adds. at grounds, 1959. |
Refs: | IB 98, 25 Aug 1956, 773; 101, 19 Sep 1959. 687 |
Name: | GIRON, LOUIS FRANÇOIS |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD (BALLSBRIDGE), ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Library (1965), concert hall, new front, renovation. |
Refs: | IB 107, 19 Jun 1965, 458; RIAI Yearbook 1977, 54 |