Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Engineer and architect, of Sligo and Co. Kilkenny. Cecil Arthur Fowler, who was born in Co. Sligo on 6 February 1876, was the second son of Edward Willoughby Fowler, of Cleghmore, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, and his wife Kate Mary Barrett (née Jones). He studied engineering at Trinity College, Dublin, from 1894 to 1898, obtaining the BAI degree, and then served a two-year pupilage with JOHN HARRIS HAZLETT SWINEY  JOHN HARRIS HAZLETT SWINEY of Belfast. This was followed by various railway and drainage work and, in 1904-5, work on the reconstruction of the military barracks at Waterford.

In 1907 Fowler set up his own office in Sligo, where his widowed mother had moved,(1) and immediately began to receive architectural commissions from the local gentry. It was presumably following the death of JOHN GERVAIS SKIPTON  JOHN GERVAIS SKIPTON in 1929 that he was appointed district architect for the united dioceses of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh and of Tuam, Killala and Achonry, a post which he held until 1939 or later.(2) In the mid-1930s he moved from Sligo to Co. Kilkenny, where he was still living in 1959.

ICEI: elected member 7 December 1910.
Inst.CE: elected associate member, 14 January 1902.(3)

Addresses:(4) Rosslare House, Sligo, <=1910->=1921; Albert Street, Sligo, <=1927->=1933; Gowran, Co. Kilkenny, <=1936->=1950; Leyrath, Kilkenny, <=1954->=1959.

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References

All information in this entry not otherwise attributed is from ICEI membership applications, IV, 91, and Burke’s Irish Family Records (1976), 441.

(1) 1911 census of Ireland, http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ (last visited Nov 2009). 
(2) Irish Church Directory (1934), 82; Irish Church Directory (1939), 82.
(3) Charter…and list of members of the Institution of Civil Engineers (1914), 187.
(4) From ICEI membership lists.


4 work entries listed in chronological order for FOWLER, CECIL ARTHUR


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Building: CO. MAYO, THE NEALE (BALLINROBE)
Date: 1908ca
Nature: New wing, for 5th Lord Kilmaine, costing £1,600.
Refs: ICEI admissions applications, IV, 91; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 222(illus.)

Building: CO. SLIGO, KILMACTRANNY, CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1908ca
Nature: Addition of chancel.
Refs: ICEI admissions applications, IV, 91

Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, ARDEEVEN
Date: 1908ca
Nature: Addition for Georgina, Lady Gore-Booth.
Refs: ICEI admissions applications, IV, 91

Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, BOYLE, DRUMDORE (?)
Date: 1908ca
Nature: Addition to house of A.H.C. Magenis, costing about £14000.
Refs: ICEI admissions applications, IV, 91