Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KERRY, TRALEE, COUNTY HALL (OLD)

Name: BUTLER, RUDOLF MAXIMILIAN
Building: CO. KERRY, TRALEE, COUNTY HALL (OLD)
Date: 1905
Nature: Design of RMB and G.A.E. Hickson wins competition but not adopted
Refs: IB 47, 22 Apr, 15 Jul,7 Oct 1905, 257,278,493,700,705(illus.); 48, 1 Dec 1906, 970; RHA 1906, no. 300; Irish International Exhibition, Dublin, 1907, no. 378

Name: DEANE, THOMAS MANLY (SIR)
Building: CO. KERRY, TRALEE, COUNTY HALL (OLD)
Date: 1905
Nature: Competition entrant, placed 2nd by assessor, G.C. Ashlin.
Refs: IB 47, 22 Apr, 6 May, 9 Sep 1905, 257, 278, 293, 618 (illus.)

Name: HICKSON, GEORGE ARCHIBALD ERSKINE
Building: CO. KERRY, TRALEE, COUNTY HALL (OLD)
Date: 1905
Nature: Design of R.M.Butler and G.A.E. Hickson wins competition but not adopted
Refs: IB 47, 22 Apr, 15 Jul,7 Oct 1905, 257,278,493,700,705(illus.); 48, 1 Dec 1906, 970; RHA 1906, no. 300; Irish International Exhibition, Dublin, 1907, no. 378

Name: HICKSON, GEORGE ARCHIBALD ERSKINE
Building: CO. KERRY, TRALEE, COUNTY HALL (OLD)
Date: 1905
Nature: Design by Hickson and R.M. Butler placed first in competition assessed by G.C. Ashlin, but Co. Council decide to adopt plans of J.P. Wrenn (placed 3rd by Ashlin)
Refs: IB 47, 22 Apr,6,20 May,15 Jul,7 Oct 1905,257, 278,293,?,314,493,700,705(illus.)

Name: WRENN, JAMES PURCELL
Building: CO. KERRY, TRALEE, COUNTY HALL (OLD)
Date: 1909-1910
Nature: Placed 3rd in competition but chosen as architect for same. County hall and assembly room (also called Theatre Royal).  Contractor: Kennedy, Moyderwell, Tralee.  Clerk of Works: Laurence Corrigan. Fibrous plaster work in Assembly Room by John Ryan, Upper Abbey Street. (Building destroyed in 1922.)
Refs: Letter-book of J.P. Wrenn, 1909-1913, ff. 1 &c., in IAA, James Purcell Wrenn collection, Acc. 2009/20, on loan from Mrs Dympna Carton and Mrs Oonagh Maguire;  IB 47, 15 Jul,9 Sep,4 Nov 1905, 493,618,790; 51, 20 Mar 1909, 178