Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TYRONE, OMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM

Name: FARRELL, WILLIAM
Building: CO. TYRONE, OMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1847-1853
Nature: New. 62-bay, 3-storey range in institutional Elizabethan style. (Quantities taken by Thomas Turner and Patrick Kerr.) Opened 1853. Contractor: William Hague, Cavan.
Refs: 16th Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1848), 15;  Armagh Guardian, 3 Jun,30 Dec 1850; 3 Jun 1853;   Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 14, 14 Dec 1850, 25 (with front elevation and plan);  B 11, 30 Apr 1853, 279; 14, 9 Feb 1856, 74; DB 3, 1 Jan 1861, 383; APSD 5, L, 153; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 447

Name: OWEN, CHARLES ASTLEY
Building: CO. TYRONE, OMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1890-1897
Nature: Extensive alts. Contractor: Joseph Colhoun.Contract signed 1890. Subject of court case, 1902.
Refs: 42nd Report on district, criminal and private lunatic asylums (1893), 9;   Irish Times, 26 Mar,17 Jun,22 Dec 1902

Name: OWEN, CHARLES ASTLEY
Building: CO. TYRONE, OMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1901a
Nature: Chapel for Catholic inmates erected. To seat 500 persons. Dispute re fees, 1904.
Refs: IB 39, 15 Apr 1897, 77; 43, 30 Jan 1901, 607; B 80, 19 Jan 1901, 66;  Irish Times, 5 Nov 1904.

Name: DONNELLY, JAMES LOUIS
Building: CO. TYRONE, OMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1902
Nature: Erection of Protestant chapel. Contr: David Funston, Ballyshannon (£1750).
Refs: IB 44, 19 Jun,3 Jul 1902, 1292,1308;  52nd Report on district, criminal and private lunatic asylums (1903), 552

Name: DOOLIN, BUTLER & DONNELLY
Building: CO. TYRONE, OMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1904-05
Nature: Reconstruction of old chapel into additional accommodation. Builder: J. Robinson, Capsie, Omagh.
Refs: IB 46, 30 Jul,19 Nov,3 Dec 1904, 490,786,826; 47, 9 Sep 1905, 634

Name: BUTLER, RUDOLF MAXIMILIAN
Building: CO. TYRONE, OMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1904;1914
Nature: Gallery in RC chapel; ferro-concrete bridge for management
Refs: IB 46, 19 Nov 1904, 786; 47, 15 Jul 1905, 495; 56, 28 Feb 1914, 136

Name: DOOLIN, BUTLER & DONNELLY
Building: CO. TYRONE, OMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1905
Nature: Enlargement of RC chapel (new gallery).
Refs: IB 47, 28 Jan,15 Jul,12 Aug 1905, 75,494,552

Name: DOOLIN, BUTLER & DONNELLY
Building: CO. TYRONE, OMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1906
Nature: New sanitary system & mode of sewage disposal.
Refs: IB 48, 25 Aug 1906, 690

Name: MURNAGHAN, VINCENT HUGH
Building: CO. TYRONE, OMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1937
Nature: Male admission hospital. Also involved in construction of large water tower.
Refs: IB 79, 10 Jul 1937, 634; letter from Vincent Murnaghan's son Anthony Murnaghan, to A.M. Rowan, 22 Oct 1999