Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, QUAY STREET, TOWN HALL

Name: CALDWELL, JAMES [2]
Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, QUAY STREET, TOWN HALL
Date: 1860
Nature: 'Mr Caldwell, junior' submits plans, without charge. (JC was clerk of works for building of town hall to designs by William Hague, but 'Mr Caldwell' could also be Henry Caldwell.)
Refs: DB 2, 1 Sep 1860, 330

Name: BARRE, WILLIAM JOSEPH
Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, QUAY STREET, TOWN HALL
Date: 1864
Nature: WJB placed second in competition. Assessor: Sir John Benson. (Competition announced, Jun 1864, see Freeman's Journal, 2 Jun 1864.)
Refs: DB 6, 15 Aug 1864, 166; B 22, 20 Aug 1864, 619.

Name: FOGERTY, WILLIAM
Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, QUAY STREET, TOWN HALL
Date: 1864
Nature: WF unselected entrant in competition won by W. Hague. (Competition announced, Jun 1864, see Freeman's Journal, 2 Jun 1864.)
Refs: RHA 1865, no. 457; DB 6, 15 Aug 1864, 166; 7, 1 May 1865, 111B 22, 20 Aug,17 Sep 1864, 619,690

Name: LANYON, LYNN & LANYON
Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, QUAY STREET, TOWN HALL
Date: 1864
Nature: Placed second in competition. Assessor: Sir John Benson. (Competition announced, Jun 1864, see Freeman's Journal, 2 Jun 1864.)
Refs: DB 6, 15 Aug 1864, 166; B 22, 20 Aug 1864, 619

Name: HAGUE, WILLIAM [2]
Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, QUAY STREET, TOWN HALL
Date: 1864-1872
Nature: WH wins competition (advertised Jun-Jul 1864) with design in 'modern Italian style'. FS laid 12 Oct 1865. Contractors: Crowe Bros, Gt Brunswick St (£6,863) Clerk of works: James Caldwell.  Completion delayed until 1870s. First meeting of Corporation held in unfinished building, Jul 1872.
Refs: 4 signed undated drawings in IAA, Acc. 2004/128; General Advertiser, 4 Jun 1864; DB 6, 15 Aug 1864, 166; 7, 15 Oct 1865, 250; IB 12, 1 Mar 1870, 52(illus.); 14, 1 Jan 1872, 1; B 22, 20 Aug,17 Sep 1864, 619,690; 23, 19 Aug,28 Oct 1865, 596,769;   Irish Times, 6 Apr 1870;  William Gregory Wood Martin, History of Sligo, county and town, from the earliest ages to the close of the reign of Queen Elizabeth (to the present time) (Dublin, 1882-92), III, 154;  Terence O'Rorke, History of Sligo (1889), 396;  Tadhg Kilgannon, Sligo and its surroundings (Sligo, 1926), 143;  City Hall, Sligo, Ireland, pamphlet [1999].

Name: CARROLL, JAMES RAWSON
Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, QUAY STREET, TOWN HALL
Date: 1865
Nature: JRC exhibits design at Dublin International Exhibition, 1865.
Refs: Dublin International Exhibition of Art & Manufactures, 1865, no. 170

Name: BARRE, WILLIAM JOSEPH
Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, QUAY STREET, TOWN HALL
Date: 1865??
Nature: WJB placed 2nd in competition.
Refs: Durham Dunlop (ed.), A Memoir of the professional life of William J. Barre, Esq. member of the Royal Insitute of Architects Ireland: with photographic illustrations selected from his works (Belfast: James Magill, 1868), 33

Name: MCDONNELL & DIXON
Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, QUAY STREET, TOWN HALL
Date: 1937
Nature: Erection of public convenience on N side.
Refs: IB 79, 1 May 1937, 406