Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, MILITARY ROAD, MODEL NATIONAL SCHOOL

Name: DARLEY, FREDERICK [2]
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, MILITARY ROAD, MODEL NATIONAL SCHOOL
Date: 1852-55
Nature: New schools. Tudor Gothice, with 7-bay front and 2 gables. Nearly complete in March 1855. For Commissioners of National Education.Cost: between £4000 and £5000. Builder: Ryan & Son.
Refs: Drawing(s) in NA, OPW drawings collection, old ref. D.11.2; 19th Report of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland (1852), xviii; B 9, 19 Jul,27 Sep 1851, 453,610; 11, 22 Jan 1853, 60; 13, 3 Mar 1855, 105; APSD V, L, 92;  Judith Hill, 'Barracks, asylum and model school:  public architecture in Limerick from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century', Limerick History and Society, ed. by Liam Irwin & Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh (Dublin: Geography Publications, 2009), 294-302(illus.).

Name: OWEN, JAMES HIGGINS
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, MILITARY ROAD, MODEL NATIONAL SCHOOL
Date: 1861
Nature: Adds. & alts.
Refs: DB 3, 15 Nov 1861, 689

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, MILITARY ROAD, MODEL NATIONAL SCHOOL
Date: 1879
Nature: Additions.
Refs: Drawing(s) in NA, OPW drawings collection, old ref. D.11.2