Selected: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM



Name: MURRAY, WILLIAM [1]
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1832-35
Nature: New '2nd class' lunatic asylum for 60 patients. Opened 16 Jan 1835. Cost: £14,019. (Enlarged by Board of Works (not by WM)1842 to accommodate 100 patients).
Refs: Drawing, signed and dated 12 Jun 1832, in IAA, Murray Collection, no. 215 (see Bernadette Goslin, 'A History and descriptive catalogue of the Murray Collection of architectural drawings' (MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1990), 99-100); elevation exh. RHA 1835, no. 268; 4th Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland)n (1936), 7(18 W.P. Burke, History of Clonmel (1907), 199; Jill Lever, ed., Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects L-N (1973), 101

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1842
Nature: Enlargement, to accommodate 100 patients.
Refs: 9th Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1842), 5; 10th Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1843), 5; W.P. Burke, History of Clonmel (1907), 199.

Name: DEANE, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1860
Nature: Plans for conversion of House of Industry into lunatic asylum approved by Board of Works but plans by George Wilkinson executed instead.
Refs: DB 2, 1 Jul 1860, 301

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1861
Nature: Conversion of House of Industry into auxiliary asylum. Cosgrave's tender of £2,900 accepted.
Refs: DB 3, 15 Jul,15 Sep 1861, 578,638.

Name: DOOLIN, WALTER GLYNN
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1887-88
Nature: RC chapel. Contractor: P. Dwyer (£2134).
Refs: IB 29, 1 Oct 1887, I; 30, 1 Aug 1888, 204 and advertisement;  Architect 40, 27 Jul 1888, suppl. p.1; 21 Sep 1888, suppl. p.2;  Gearoid Crookes, 'The Career and Architectural Works of Walter G. Doolin (1850-1902)', unpublished M.A. thesis, University College Dublin, 1987, 113-114, Fig. 7:13

Name: HACKETT, EDWARD AUGUSTUS
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1891-94;1901;1905
Nature: Alts. & adds (new east wing?), 1891-94 (Contractor: M. Hunt, Waterford); sanitary work, 1901; coal store, 1905.
Refs: IB 34, 15 Jan 1892, 20; Architect 47, 15 Jan 1892, suppl. p.9;  IAA, PKS 0711, B15/48, B16/02, A07 (Nov 1891-Feb 1894, pp.406-7,448); 46th Report on…Lunatic Asylums (1897), 20; IB 35, 15 Sep 1893, 216; 43, 10 Apr 1901, 687; IB 47, 14 Jan 1905, 26

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1901-07
Nature: New buildings, 1901-04 (Builder: Sam Hill, Cork, £15,450). Consumptive blocks, 1906-07 (Builder: Thomas Holloway & Son, Cahir).
Refs: IB 43, 6 Jun,29 Aug,26 Sep 1901, 752,844,872; 46, 23,27 Aug,10 Sep 1904, 526,562,586; 48, 24 Feb,10 Mar,1 Dec 1906, 164,209,968; 49, 20 Apr,1 Jun,14 Dec 1907, 288,385,861; B 87, 13 Aug 1904, 192 ; 92, 13 Apr 1907, 459;  58th Report on…Lunatic Asylums (1909), 32.

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1911
Nature: Nurses home ('an isolated building for the accommodation of the nursing staff'.
Refs: IB 53, 4 Mar,15 Apr 1911, 154,249; IA & C 1, 15 Apr 1911, 158

Name: DOYLE, DENIS STANISLAUS
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1930-1935
Nature: Works at same, including alts. & adds. to disused workhouse.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0387, 0524

Name: MCDONNELL & DIXON
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1933
Nature: Reappointed architects for proposed adds. & alts. With Dines & Heaney, Thurles, structural engineers.
Refs: Clonmel Nationalist, 13 May 1933; IB 75, 20 May 1933, 429

Name: WINTERS, JOHN JOSEPH
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1933
Nature: JJW appointed consulting engineer for proposed new hospital. Not executed.
Refs: IB 75, 26 Aug 1933, 722,742; F. O’Dwyer, Irish Hospital Architecture, a pictorial history (Department of Health and Children, 1997), 20

Name: MCDONNELL & DIXON
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1935
Nature: Imps. £98,000.
Refs: IB 77, 20 Apr 1935, 337