Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, UNIVERSITY ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

Name: KEANE, JOHN BENJAMIN
Building: CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, UNIVERSITY ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: 1846-50
Nature: JBK winner of competition. Design, selected by Board of Trade, for 'a magnificent edifice in the style of Henry the Eight[h]'s time'. FS laid Mar 1846. Contractor: William Brady, Galway.
Refs: Survey plans in NA, Office of Public Works drawings collection, old ref. F.6.5; B 3, 13 Dec 1845, 589; 4, 21 Feb,21 Mar 1846, 93,140,?308; 6, 30 Dec 1848, 631; 8, 14 Sep 1850, 436;  Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 9 (Jul 1846), 223; 15th Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1847), 6; 16th Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1848), 15,17, Appendix B(illus., repr. F. O'Dwyer, 'Building empires: architecture, politics and the Board of Works 1760-1860', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 5 (2002), Pl.38); 17th Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1849), 25; Douglas Scott-Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts, Garland, 1983), 331-335, pls. 195-199; Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (Cork University Press, 1997), 54,56,61,64(illus.),65,72,134;  Tom May, Churches of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora (Galway, 2000), 140.

Name: MACDONALD, ALLAN
Building: CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, UNIVERSITY ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: 1914
Nature: Plumbing, drainage, heating and lighting to new building.
Refs: IB 56, 6 Jun 1914, 368

Name: MACDONALD, ALLAN
Building: CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, UNIVERSITY ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: 1930
Nature: New lecture block containing 6 lecture rooms.
Refs: IB 72, 25 Oct 1930, 970

Name: O'CONNOR, HUBERT GERARD LYNOTT
Building: CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, UNIVERSITY ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: 1938;1953
Nature: Alts. to experimental physics department, 1938. Tenders invited for addition to anatomy schools & repairs and alts to existing buildings, 1953.
Refs: IB 80, 9 Jul 1938, 582; 95, 31 Jan 1953, 122