Selected: CO. WEXFORD, WEXFORD, COMMERCIAL QUAY, COUNTY COURT HOUSE
Name: | MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR) |
Building: | CO. WEXFORD, WEXFORD, COMMERCIAL QUAY, COUNTY COURT HOUSE |
Date: | 1803-1806;1807 |
Nature: | 'The courthouse, situated on the quay, opposite to the end of the bridge, is a neat structure, erected at the expense of the county , and consists of a centre and two wings, with its entrance under a portico supported by two columns' (Lewis). Similar to Portlaoise court house. RM paid for repairs and alts. to new court house 1807. Burnt out in 1921. |
Refs: |
J.N. Brewer, The Beauties of Ireland (1825 & 1826), I, 251; Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837),II, 710; A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 172-173(illus.) (which mistakenly suggests that central block with its recessed tetrastyle portico in antis, shown in photograph, was part of Morrison's design). |
Name: | ELMES, JAMES # |
Building: | CO. WEXFORD, WEXFORD, COMMERCIAL QUAY, COUNTY COURT HOUSE |
Date: | 1822 |
Nature: | Co. Wexford Grand Jury Presentments 1817-1823, Co Wexford County Archive, Ardcavan WXCA/P 436 (information from Prof. Kevin Whelan, Dublin, in e-mail of Jul 2021). |
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Name: | FARRELL, JAMES BARRY |
Building: | CO. WEXFORD, WEXFORD, COMMERCIAL QUAY, COUNTY COURT HOUSE |
Date: | 1862 |
Nature: | Improvements and enlargement. (Does this include remodelling of central block with tetrastyle portico in antis. balustrade, &c.?) |
Refs: | DB 3, 1 Jul 1862, 172 |