Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, YARNHALL STREET, NO. 001 (LINEN HALL)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: BURGH, THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, YARNHALL STREET, NO. 001 (LINEN HALL)
Date: 1722
Nature: Designed same.
Refs: JHCI 3, cclxviii ff. (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Rolf Loeber, entry on Burgh in Oxford DNB (2004)

Name: COOLEY, THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, YARNHALL STREET, NO. 001 (LINEN HALL)
Date: 1784ca
Nature: Enlarged by TC. Rusticated granite entrance arch facing Yarnhall Street.
Refs: Drawing for stone gate by TC among Linen Hall drawings in NLI, PF 21(illus. in The Architecture of Dublin in Drawings and Paintings (National Gallery of Ireland, 1975), no. 20); part elevation in NLI, AD 1784; JHCI 10, ccccxvi (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); PRONI D207/28/672 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Maurice Craig, Dublin 1660-1860 (revised edition, 1992), 197; survey plans by Edward Parke, 1816, in IAA, Acc.; 2002/185  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 232.

Name: KIRK, THOMAS *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, YARNHALL STREET, NO. 001 (LINEN HALL)
Date: 1808
Nature: Statue of George IV
Refs: Half-size model exh. RHA 1827, no. 289; S.C. Hall, Dublin & Wicklow (1853), 22; B 32, 21 Feb 1874, 151;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press:  New Haven & London, 2010), 12.

Name: MILLAR & SYMES
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, YARNHALL STREET, NO. 001 (LINEN HALL)
Date: 1905-06
Nature: Unspecified works.
Refs: Diary of R.C. Millar (entries for 214 Dec 1905 and 28 May 1906) in collection of Mrs D. Millar, 1976

Name: O'CONNOR, GEORGE LUKE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, YARNHALL STREET, NO. 001 (LINEN HALL)
Date: 1914
Nature: Tenders invited for carrying out alts. in connection with forthcoming Civic Exhibition.
Refs: Freeman's Journal, 7 Apr 1914.

Name: ASHWORTH & SMITH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, YARNHALL STREET, NO. 001 (LINEN HALL)
Date: 1927
Nature: Alts. just completed at Chamberlain House, Linen Hall, by B.W. Whyte, Summerhill, for Hugh Moore & Alexanders Ltd.
Refs: IB 69, 20 Aug 1927, 616

Name: THORP, CHARLES [1] *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, YARNHALL STREET, NO. 001 (LINEN HALL)
Date: ?
Nature: 'built a great part of the Linen Hall'
Refs: Royal Irish Academy, Haliday MS 4B 31;  this manuscript is a copy of a report presented to Daniel O'Connell in 1834 to support the argument for repealing the Act of Union by describing the catastrophic impact the Act had had on the tradesmen of Dublin.