Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MONAGHAN, CARRICKMACROSS, MAIN STREET, COURT HOUSE

Name: FORREST, EDWARD V.
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, CARRICKMACROSS, MAIN STREET, COURT HOUSE
Date: 1837
Nature: EF asked for plans.  According to Brett, it was built to designs by William Caldbeck in 1844.but Mulligan writes 'apparently by Edward Forrest, and not William Caldbeck, to whom it has often been attributed.'
Refs: NA/SPO CSORP 1837/1295 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); C.E.B. Brett, Court Houses and Market Houses of the Province of Ulster(UAHS, 1973), 93;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 220.

Name: CALDBECK, WILLIAM FRANCIS
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, CARRICKMACROSS, MAIN STREET, COURT HOUSE
Date: 1844
Nature: New, 5-bay, 2-store court house. According to Brett 'plainly by by William Caldbeck', but Mulligan writes 'apparently by Edward Forrest, and not William Caldbeck, to whom it has often been attributed.'
Refs: C.E.B. Brett, Court Houses and Market Houses of the Province of Ulster (UAHS, 1973), 93,95(illus.);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 220.