Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, OBSERVATORY

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, OBSERVATORY
Date: 1788-89
Nature: New limestone building, inscr. 'The Heavens declare the Glory of God'. For Richard Robinson, Archbishop of Armagh.
Refs: James Stuart, Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh (2nd edition, 1900), ?; 'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 1; APSA, A, 98-99; R. McKinstry, R. Oram, R. Weatherup, P. Wilson, The Buildings of Armagh (UAHS, 1992), 85-88;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 124-5.

Name: MURRAY, WILLIAM [1]
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, OBSERVATORY
Date: 1835
Nature: 4-bay link between main building and kitchen block.

Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 125

Name: BELL, G.P. & R.H.
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, OBSERVATORY
Date: 1968
Nature: Planetarium. (Mulligan gives date of 1965-67.)
Refs: Obituary of G.P.Bell in RSUA Yearbook 1983, 20; R. McKinstry, R. Oram, R. Weatherup, P. Wilson, The Buildings of Armagh (UAHS, 1992), 88; illus. in Kevin John Cartin, 'The work of George Philip Bell', submitted to Queen's University of Belfast as part of the examination in Architecture, January 1986, 74;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 128.