Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, SWORDS, NORTH STREET, COURT HOUSE

Name: TATE, ALEXANDER
Building: CO. DUBLIN, SWORDS, NORTH STREET, COURT HOUSE
Date: 1840s
Nature: New court house with 2-storey central clock and flanking entrance wings. Designed by AT. Built for Board of Works by John Russborough, contractor.
Refs: Christine Casey, 'Courthouses, Markethouses and Townhalls of Leinster', unpublished MA thesis, Department of History of Art, University College Dublin, 1982, 55-56, pl. 20; Brendan O'Donoghue, The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 309