Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Builder, of Dublin, active in in the 1830s and 1840s. In 1843 Clancy won the contract for the new epiphyte house at the Glasnevin Botanic Gardens, designed by DUNCAN C. FERGUSON DUNCAN C. FERGUSON . The job, which according to the contract was to have been finished within four months, took a whole year to complete and almost bankrupted Clancy in the process.(1)

Addresses:(2) 31 Stafford Street 1834-1836; 31 Stafford Street and Green Lanes, Clontarf, 1839-1844; 117 St Stephen's Green, 1844; 117 St Stephen's Green and 16 Anglesea Street (office), 1847.

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(1) E. Charles Nelson & Eileen M. McCracken, The Brightest Jewel: a history of the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, (1987), 107.
(2) From Wilson's, Post Office and Pettigrew and Oulton's directories.


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Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GLASNEVIN ROAD, BOTANIC GARDENS
Date: 1843-44
Nature: WC contractor for epiphyte house.
Refs: Royal Dublin Society council proceedings 80/66, 82/2,10 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Jones, citing ?Berry (or ?White) History of the Royal Dublin Society, 196,279; M. Craig, Dublin 1660-1860 (1952), 298; E. Charles Nelson & Eileen M. McCracken, The Brightest Jewel: a history of the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin (1987), 107; E.J. Diestelkamp, 'The curvilinear range at the National Botanic Gardens', Mooraea 9 (Dec 1990), 12