Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LOUTH, DROGHEDA, WEST STREET, THOLSEL

Name: RICHARDSON, MICHAEL
Building: CO. LOUTH, DROGHEDA, WEST STREET, THOLSEL
Date: 1763;1764;1766
Nature: MR paid for designs for same.
Refs: Drogheda Corporation Book (microfilm in NLI) (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: BURY, HAMILTON
Building: CO. LOUTH, DROGHEDA, WEST STREET, THOLSEL
Date: 1765
Nature: HB submits plans. Oversees building of George Darley's design.
Refs: E.McP files citing Drogheda Corporation book, 9,23 Aug 1765, and 10 Oct 1766; P.J. Geraghty, 'Urban improvement and the erection of municipal buildings in County Louth during the eithteenth and nineteenth centuries', County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 23, no. 3 (1995), 300.

Name: DARLEY, GEORGE [1]*
Building: CO. LOUTH, DROGHEDA, WEST STREET, THOLSEL
Date: 1765-70
Nature: Designed by GD. Work overseen by Hamilton Bury.
Refs: E.McP files, citing Drogheda Corporation Book, 9,23 Aug 1765; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 49-50,242,Pl.11;  P.J. Geraghty, 'Urban improvement and the erection of municipal buildings in County Louth during the eithteenth and nineteenth centuries', County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 23, no. 3 (1995), 305-6.

Name: OMER, ROWLAND
Building: CO. LOUTH, DROGHEDA, WEST STREET, THOLSEL
Date: 1767
Nature: Rowland?, Thomas? Omer paid 5 gns by Drogheda Corporation for plan for Tholsel and Market House, 1 May 1767.
Refs: Drogheda Corporation Book, microfilm in NLI (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44). This may be the 'Design for an Exchange' exhibited by Rowland Omer at the Society of Artists in Ireland, Dublin, in 1767, see IALE, II, 528).

Name: NEVILLE, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. LOUTH, DROGHEDA, WEST STREET, THOLSEL
Date: 1861
Nature: Tenders sought by Grand Jury for 'remodelling and altering the Drogheda Court-house [which sat in the Tholsel] according to plans and specifications prepared by J. Neville'.
Refs: DB 3, 1 Mar 1861, 448;   P.J. Geraghty, 'Urban improvement and the erection of municipal buildings in County Louth during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries', County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 25, no. 3, 306