Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Builder, of Kevin Street, Dublin, active from 1788 or earlier until 1797 or later. Pascal Taylor is listed as a builder in Wilson's Dublin Directory for these dates, his address being given as 17 Lower Kevin Street from 1877 to 1789 and as 17 Upper Kevin Street from 1790-1797. According to the recollections of his fellow tradesmen in 1834, he employed ten men, acquired property and died wealthy.(1)  At the time of his death he was living in Portobello.  His will was proved in the Prerogative Court in 1802.(2)



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(1)   Royal Irish Academy, Haliday MS 4B 31.
(2) Arthur Vicars, Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland 1536-1810 (1897), 451.