Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DONEGAL, LIFFORD, COURT HOUSE & GAOL (OLD)

Name: PRIESTLEY, MICHAEL
Building: CO. DONEGAL, LIFFORD, COURT HOUSE & GAOL (OLD)
Date: 1746-1754
Nature: Plaque on court house says 'designed and executed by Michael Priestley 1746' but not complete by 1753 and MP not paid until 1754 (£23.4s.6d.)
Refs: A. Day, P. McWilliams & L. English, eds., Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol. 39 (1997), 12; Co. Donegal Grand Jury presentments? (B. of I.); C.E.B. Brett, Court Houses and Market Houses of the Province of Ulster (UAHS, 1973), 60,61(illus.); Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 43,348