Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Civil engineer and town surveyor of Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford.  According to the 1911 census, William Casey was born in Co. Wexford in 1869 or 1870.  He can almost certainly be identified as the William Casey, son of Patrick William Casey and his wife Mary, née O'Leary, who was born in Co. Wexford on 2 August 1869.(1)  By 1907 he had been appointed town surveyor of Enniscorthy in a temporary capacity.   He was later appointed on a permanent basis, resigning in 1929 on the grounds of ill health..  When the Local Government Board asked the  Enniscorthy  Urban District Council why they had added five years to Casey's pensionable service when calculating his pension of £111 per annum, the council cited all the additional unpaid responsibilities which Casey had undertaken and noted that he had served as engineer to the Town Commissioners and the Rural District Council for 12 years before he was appointed to a pensionable position.(2)  

At the time of the 1911 census Caseyas unmarried and living with his mother in Enniscorthy.

Address:  7 George's Street, Enniscorthy, 1911.

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References

Iformation in this entry is from Thom's Directory for 1907, 1915 and 1922 and from the 1911 census of Ireland, http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ (last visited Nov 2009). 

(1) www.familysearch.org.
(2) Irish Times, 6 Dec 1929..


2 work entries listed in chronological order for CASEY, WILLIAM P.


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Building: CO. WEXFORD, ENNISCORTHY, HOUSES (020)
Date: 1905
Nature: WPC draws plans for 20 labourers' cottages.
Refs: IB 47, 14 Jan 1905, 38 (name given as W.P. Lacy)

Building: CO. WEXFORD, ENNISCORTHY, MARKET HOUSE
Date: 1908
Nature: For Enniscorthy UDC.
Refs: B 86, 4 Apr 1908, 407.