Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. FERMANAGH, ENNISKILLEN, DUBLIN ROAD, DISTRICT MODEL SCHOOL

Name: OWEN, ENOCH TREVOR
Building: CO. FERMANAGH, ENNISKILLEN, DUBLIN ROAD, DISTRICT MODEL SCHOOL
Date: 1864-67
Nature: Itallianate. Local likestone & Belfast bricks dressed with Dungannon sandstone and English blue bricks. Site obtained 1862. Design prepared 1864. Contract, 1865. Completed July 1867. Opened Sep 1867. Contractor: William Hague, Cavan.
Refs: Signed drawings in NA, Office of Public Works Drawings Collection (also unsigned design for residence); 31st Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1862), 7; DB 7, 15 Mar 1865, 82; IB 9, 15 Sep 1867, 243; EMS 1867-1867, 6 (copy in IAA, RPD.288.7) gives architect as James Higgins Owen

Name: HAGUE, WILLIAM [1]*
Building: CO. FERMANAGH, ENNISKILLEN, DUBLIN ROAD, DISTRICT MODEL SCHOOL
Date: 1865-67
Nature: Site obtained 1862. Begun, 1865. Opened Sep 1867. WH contractor. Architect: E.T. Owen, Board of Works.
Refs: 31st Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1862), 7; DB 7, 15 Mar 1865, 82; IB 9, 15 Sep 1867, 243

Name: TOWNSEND, FRANCIS GERALD
Building: CO. FERMANAGH, ENNISKILLEN, DUBLIN ROAD, DISTRICT MODEL SCHOOL
Date: 1934-1935
Nature: Remodelled, with adds.(6 new classrooms, staff room, principal's office), by FGT. Reopened 27 Jun 1935. Cost: £4,000. Contractor: John Bloomfield, Brookborough.
Refs: IB 76, 7,21 Apr 1934, 291,354; Hugh Dixon, Historic Buildings …in the town of Enniskillen (UAHS, 1973), 37; EMS 1867-1967, 39 (copy in IAA, RP.D.288.7).