Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, MARKET SQUARE, COUNTY COURT HOUSE

Name: MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR)
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, MARKET SQUARE, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: 1804
Nature: RM prepares plans.
Refs: PRONI D562/12762 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: BEHAN, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, MARKET SQUARE, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: 1810
Nature: JB and Richard Morrison write to B.T. Balfour about same and submit tender.
Refs: NLI MS 10,281 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44);  PRONI D562/12766 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR)
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, MARKET SQUARE, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: 1810-12
Nature: RM and John Behan[2] submit tender and write to B.T. Balfour about building of same, 1810 (but offer turned down, see copy  letter from John Foster to Robert Page, r, 4 Oct 1811, in PRONI, D562/12766). RM offers to build same for £7,000, 1811.  RM offers to superintend building of same, 1812.
Refs: NLI MS 10,281 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44);  PRONI D562/12766 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44);  letter from RM to Robert Page, 13 Oct 1811, British Architectural Library Catalogue http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/CJSPRyqnaa/MAIN_CAT/51420109/9 (last visited Jun 2009);   PRONI T2519/4/13 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44).

Name: MOORE, WILLIAM [2]*
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, MARKET SQUARE, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: 1813
Nature: WM enters into contract, Apr 1813, to build same within three years for £16,190.10s. Discharged in autumn of 1818 because of 'great delays'. Sued Grand Jury for aditional expenses of over £12,000. Awarded £3,500 and costs, Nov 1820.
Refs: PRONI D207/23/98 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); P.J. Geraghty, 'Urban improvement and the erection of municipal buildings in County Louth during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries', County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 25, no. 3 (1995), 312-3

Name: PARKE, EDWARD
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, MARKET SQUARE, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: 1813
Nature: Designs new court house, probably incorporating ideas of John Foster. Dismissed after dispute with Grand Jury overseers, who refused him power to appoint individual craftsmen. Replaced by John Bowden. Contractor: Original contractor: William Moore, Dublin (£16,190.10s); discharged and replaced in 1818.
Refs: PRONI, Foster/Massereene MSS, T2519/4; Christine Casey, 'Courthouses, market houses and town halls of Leinster' (unpublished MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1982), I, 90-91; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 268-9; P.J. Geraghty, 'Urban improvement and the erection of municipal buildings in County Louth during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries', County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 25, no. 3 (1995), 312

Name: BOWDEN, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, MARKET SQUARE, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: 1818ca
Nature: Supervised building of Parke's design
Refs: JB's connection with Parke described in Ferrard Papers, PRONI T2519/4 (ref. given by A. Malcolmson to E. McP); P.J. Geraghty, 'Urban improvement and the erection of municipal buildings in County Louth during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries', County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 25, no. 3 (1995), 313

Name: TAYLOR, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, MARKET SQUARE, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: 1830
Nature: John Taylor exhibits drawing of portico at RHA
Refs: RHA 1830, no. 273

Name: NEVILLE, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, MARKET SQUARE, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: 1846;1855
Nature: Adds. to provide extra offices and Grand Jury accommodation (£500 loan from Board of Works), 1846. Improvements including rebuilding of arches in walls of hall vestibule, lowering of galleries., &c., 1851
Refs: Co. Louth Grand Jury Query Books (B of I); 15th Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1841), 26; P.J. Geraghty, 'Urban improvement and the erection of municipal buildings in County Louth during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries', County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 25, no. 3 (1995), 314

Name: WALSH, THOMAS [2]
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, MARKET SQUARE, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: 1930
Nature: Tenders invited for additions to same.
Refs: Architect & Building News 123, 21 Mar 1930, 398

Name: SHIEL, JAMES
Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, MARKET SQUARE, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Date: ?
Nature: Plans for same? 'Mr Sheil' could not get security for Dundalk court house plans.
Refs: PRONI D562/12762 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)