Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, UPPER GRANGE ROAD, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM

Name: MURRAY, WILLIAM [1]
Building: CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, UPPER GRANGE ROAD, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1833
Nature: New '2nd class' asylum, for 100 patients. Opened 7 Jul 1835.
Refs: NA SPO/CSORP 1834/3064; 4th Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland), 7;  (18 Jill Lever, ed., Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects L-N (1973), 101

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, UPPER GRANGE ROAD, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1878
Nature: New church dedicated.
Refs: Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 20, no. 234, 1 Sep 1878, 256.

Name: OTWAY, JAMES
Building: CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, UPPER GRANGE ROAD, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1888-1898
Nature: Works at same. Alts to male wing and 'refractory division', 1888-89. Contractor: G. Nolan. Further more extensive works from 1893.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0734, B14/19, B15/05 (missing), B16/08, B17/25, B18/01, A07 (May 1888-Nov 1889, Aug 1893, pp.306,338,447), A08 (Nov 1897); 46th Report on District, Criminal and Private Lunatic Asylums (1897), 30.

Name: FRIEL, WILLIAM
Building: CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, UPPER GRANGE ROAD, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1899-1900;1903-
Nature: Sanitary buildings, sewerage &c (Contractor: G. Nolan); new male and female blocks; residence for land steward; heating. Improvements, 1911.
Refs: IAA, PKS B19/14, A08 (Apr 1899); IB 42, 15 Feb,1 Mar 1900, 282,303; 45, 18 Jun,2,16 Jul,8 Oct 1903, 1835,1852,1878,1880,2026; 46, 4 Jun,2 Jul 1904, 350,430; 53, 2 Sep 1911, 597

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON
Building: CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, UPPER GRANGE ROAD, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1914
Nature: Plans for 2-storey asylum (like Armagh Asylum, cf. also Carlow, Limerick, Cork, Gransha, Belfast, Killarney).
Refs: Drawings formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne, not listed in IAA collection.

Name: FLANAGAN, JAMES H.
Building: CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, UPPER GRANGE ROAD, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1927
Nature: Boiler house and sanitary wing by 'Mr Flanagan'. J.H. Flanagan made survey drawings of the Mental Hospital circa 1934.
Refs: IB 69, 29 Oct 1927, 802; survey drawings in IAA, T.J. Cullen Collection, 85/74, Bin 40, Roll 15.

Name: CULLEN, THOMAS JOSEPH
Building: CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, UPPER GRANGE ROAD, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1932
Nature: TJC makes survey of building with J.H. Flanagan, Oct 1932, and prepares report on proposed alts. & imps.
Refs: Undated survey of existing building by J.H. Flanagan, Waterford, in IAA, T.J. Cullen Collection, 85/74; IB 74, 24 Sep 1932, 866;  Irish Times, 11 Oct 1932.