Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, HENRY STREET, MAYORALTY HOUSE

Name: MORRISON, JOHN [1]
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, HENRY STREET, MAYORALTY HOUSE
Date: 1764
Nature: Unexecuted proposal.
Refs: Elevation in Dublin Magazine (Sep 1764).

Name: DUCART, DAVIS
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, HENRY STREET, MAYORALTY HOUSE
Date: 1765-1773
Nature: New. DD, architect, with Charles Swiney, carpenter, and Edmond Flaherty, builder. FS laid 17 Jun 1764. Finished (shell only|?) Aug.1867.  Mayor in residence by Jul 1769 but building not complete until 1773. (Became Vincentian Seminary c1845 and Mercy Hospital c.1857.)
Refs: APSD, C, 148; R. Caulfield (ed.), The Council Book of the Corporation of the City of Cork (1876), 815-16; Francis H. Tuckey, The County and City of Cork Remembrancer (Cork, 1837), , 149; J. Windele, Historical and Descriptive Notices of the City of Cork (1849), ?; MS. notes by Robert Walker, Cork City Surveyor, c1890; Mark Bence-Jones, 'A city of vanished waterways - Cork I', Country Life 142, 3 Aug 1967, 252(illus.),253; Desmond Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin, 'The architecture of Davis Duckart', Country Life 142, 28 Sep 1967, 735(illus.); John Logan, 'Dropped into this Kingdom from the clouds': The Irish career of Davis Dukart, architect and engineer, 1761-1781', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 10 (2007), 36-39.

Name: OSBORNE, PATRICK *
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, HENRY STREET, MAYORALTY HOUSE
Date: 1769
Nature: Plasterwork by PO.
Refs: R. Caulfield (ed.), The Council Book of the Corporation of the City of Cork (1876), 826,833,845.