Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Builder and architect, of Armagh. Sinclair Carroll, son of John Carroll, 'architect', was born circa 1794. He was already resident in Armagh by 1820 when he appears in Pigot and Co.'s City of Dublin and Hibernian Provincial Directory (1824) as an architect and/or measurer in College Street, Armagh. In the 1824 edition he is described as a carpenter in Dawson Street. In Slater's National Commercial Directory of Ireland for 1846 he is listed as 'Builder, Architect and Valuator' of Beresford Row.

Sinclair Carroll died on 24 October 1850 at the age of fifty-six and was buried in the graveyard of St Mark's Church of Ireland church, Armagh. He was married twice: first, on 12 February 1820, to Mary Baxter (d. 1841) of Armagh at St Mark's church; second, on 2 July 1848, to Anne Elizabeth Black of Newry, likewise at St Mark's. By his first wife he had at least three children: Sinclair Carroll, junior (b. circa 1824), who is also described as an architect, Mary Carroll (1830c-1843) and Charles Carroll (b. circa 1833), a graduate and MA of Trinity College, Dublin.(1) The younger son of Sinclair Carroll, junior, Edward Carroll, who died on 4 December 1881 and was buried in the old cemetery at Loughgall, Co. Armagh, is also described as an architect.

Addresses: College Street, Armagh, 1820; Dawson Street, 1824; Beresford Row, 1846.

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References

All information in this entry not otherwise attributed was supplied by Lynda Fitzgerald, great-great-great granddaughter of Sinclair Carroll, in Nov 2007.


(1) G.D. Burtchaell & T.U. Sadleir, eds., Alumni Dublinenses (1935), supplement, 19.


4 work entries listed in chronological order for CARROLL, SINCLAIR *


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Building: CO. ARMAGH, MADDEN, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI, DERRYNOOSE PARISH)
Date: 1815
Nature: New church built with loan of £1000 from Board of First Fruits completed 1815.  Payment made in 1822 to 'Sinclair Carroll, Architect, expended by him for the Use of the Parish' may indicate that SC was the architect of the church, although he would have been only 20 at the time of its completion. See also William Stitt.
Refs: RCB Library, 'An account of of all sums of money levied for building and repairing of churches...June 1824' (information from Frank Keohane).

Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, PALACE DEMESNE, ARCHBISHOP'S PALACE
Date: 1826
Nature: SC contracts to erect kitchen for £475.4s.5d., 21 Mar 1826
Refs: PRONI DIO/4/22/7/16.

Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, TOWER HILL, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1840-41
Nature: SC contractor for same.
Refs: Information from Lynda Fitzgerald, great-great-great granddaughter of Sinclair Carroll, Nov 2007.

Building: CO. DOWN, NEWRY, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1840-41
Nature: SC contractor for same.
Refs: Information from Lynda Fitzgerald, great-great-great granddaughter of Sinclair Carroll,  Nov 2007.