Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, ST BRIGID'S MENTAL HOSPITAL

Name: ADAMS, WILLIAM NASEBY #
Building: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, ST BRIGID'S MENTAL HOSPITAL
Date: 1929
Nature: WNA awarded 2nd prize in competition for proposed hospital. Assessor: G.P. Sheridan.
Refs: Irish Times, 4 Sep 1929;   Architect & Building News 71, 6 Sep 1929, 280.

Name: BECKETT & HARRINGTON
Building: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, ST BRIGID'S MENTAL HOSPITAL
Date: 1929
Nature: B & H win 3rd Prize in competition for proposed hospital. Assessor: G.P. Sheridan.
Refs: Irish Times, 4 Sep 1929;  Architect & Building News 137, 6 Sep 1929, 280

Name: KELLY, VINCENT
Building: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, ST BRIGID'S MENTAL HOSPITAL
Date: 1929
Nature: Competition entrant.
Refs: Undated ground-floor plan in IAA, Acc. 2001/165

Name: WRIGHT, HENRY THOMAS
Building: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, ST BRIGID'S MENTAL HOSPITAL
Date: 1929-1933
Nature: HTW winner of competition, 1929. Estimated cost: £65,000.  Completed Summer 1933.  Officially opened, 9 Nov 1933. Contractor: Thornbury & Sons, Belfast (£79,987).
Refs: IB 71, 14 Sep 1929, 810; 72, 15 Feb,1 Mar,21 Jun 1930, 129,200,572; 75, 1 Jul 1933, 541; AJ 70, 18 Sep,2 Oct 1929, 418-422(illus.),501;  Irish Times, 4 Sep 1929, 22 Mar 1932, 10 Nov 1933;   Architect & Building News 122, 6,13,20 Sep 1929, 280,331,355-357(illus.); 124, 8 Aug 1930, 191; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 119

Name: O'CONNELL, VINCENT JAMES
Building: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, ST BRIGID'S MENTAL HOSPITAL
Date: 1933-34;1938
Nature: Catholic chapel for Co Louth Mental Hospital Committee. Tender of  Peter Donnelly, Carrickmacross for erecting same (£6232) accepted, Mar 1934.   Internal painting of chapel, 1938.  
Refs: IB 75, 12 Aug 1933, 699; 76, 24 Feb 1934, 158;  Irish Times, 26 Mar 1934.

Name: WRIGHT, HENRY THOMAS
Building: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, ST BRIGID'S MENTAL HOSPITAL
Date: 1933ca
Nature: New mental hospital.
Refs: National Inventory of National Heritage, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/13823032/saint-brigids-hospital-jervis-street-townparks-ardee-by-ardee-louth (illus.) 

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, ST BRIGID'S MENTAL HOSPITAL
Date: 1934
Nature:  Tenders invited for erecting new Catholic chapel at same, Mar 1934.  For Resident Medical Superintendent,
Refs:  Irish Times, 5 Mar 1934.

Name: ALLBERRY, HARRY
Building: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, ST BRIGID'S MENTAL HOSPITAL
Date: 1949
Nature: Repairs & alts, with Kavanagh
Refs: IB 82, 27 Apr 1940, 282

Name: MCGAHON, JOHN FRANCIS
Building: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, ST BRIGID'S MENTAL HOSPITAL
Date: ?
Nature: Reconstruction listed as work of JFMcG in memo sent to Jones by Cormac McGahon.
Refs: Jones file Mc68