Selected: CO. KILDARE, CURRAGH CAMP
Name: | HOLME, ARTHUR HILL # |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, CURRAGH CAMP |
Date: | 1850s |
Nature: | 'huts and waterworks for the military'. For Board of Ordnance. |
Refs: |
APSD, Part 15, H, 71; B 13, 18 Aug 1855 (& passim); 15, 5 Dec 1857, 706 (see description of camp inB 16, 3 Jul 1858, 451-2); Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 21 (Jan 1858), 33. |
Name: | BUTLER, SAMUEL |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, CURRAGH CAMP |
Date: | 1859 |
Nature: | SB assists in formation of encampment for 10,000 troops. |
Refs: | Westmeath Independent, 26 Dec 1959, with other information supplied to E.McP by N.W. English. |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, CURRAGH CAMP |
Date: | 1871 |
Nature: | New concrete domiciles for the military proposed. 'Mr John Tall's Patent Apparatus (which we saw so so successfully used at Col. Raleigh Chichester's, Co. Roscommon) will be used.' Built by miltary labour. |
Refs: | IB 13, 1 Feb 1871, 26; Con Costello, A Most delightful station (1999), 227 |
Name: | RANDALL, RICHARD |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, CURRAGH CAMP |
Date: | 1890-1900 |
Nature: | Major barracks construction scheme costing £420,000, including new cavalry barracks (Contractor: J. & W. Beckett, estimated cost £95,000) |
Refs: | IB 42, 1 May 1900(obit.); see also Architect 44, 10 Oct 1890, suppl. p.7; IB 35, 15 Sep 1893, 216; 39, 1 Mar 1897, 51 |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, CURRAGH CAMP |
Date: | 1890a |
Nature: | Blocks A,B,D, in C Square. Contractor: P. Morris, Sligo. Nurses' quarters; generating station for Office of Public Works. Amount of P. Morris's tender for former, £1,584, and for latter £1,465. |
Refs: | IAA, PKS B15/08 (missing), A07 (Jan,Dec 1890, p.372) |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, CURRAGH CAMP |
Date: | 1899 |
Nature: | Portion of camp to be reconstructed at cost of £50,000. |
Refs: | IB 41, 1 Sep 1899, 114 |