Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CHARLES FORT (KINSALE)

Name: BURGH, THOMAS
Building: CO. CORK, CHARLES FORT (KINSALE)
Date: 1702-1719
Nature: Main gate, various repairs
Refs: Rolf Loeber, A Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Ireland 1600-1720 (1981), 37

Name: BRIDGES, EDWARD ##
Building: CO. CORK, CHARLES FORT (KINSALE)
Date: 1705-1707
Nature: Repairs
Refs: Loeber, citing PRO, W.O. 55/1984

Name: NEVILL, ARTHUR JONES
Building: CO. CORK, CHARLES FORT (KINSALE)
Date: 1748
Nature: Draws plans for barracks.
Refs: JHCI V, lxv ff.

Name: EYRE, THOMAS
Building: CO. CORK, CHARLES FORT (KINSALE)
Date: 1756
Nature: TE prepares estimates and involved in works at same.
Refs: 'T3158/1281, 1282' (ie at PRO (Kew)? from NRA list 20594) (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: ROBERTS, THOMAS [2]*
Building: CO. CORK, CHARLES FORT (KINSALE)
Date: 1759
Nature: Contractor for erecting new buildings and repairing fortifications under direction of Capt. Charles Vallancey. For Thomas Eyre, Surveyor General.
Refs: MS. letter and account books of Thomas Eyre in IAA (Acc. 86/149), II, 125

Name: VALLANCEY, CHARLES
Building: CO. CORK, CHARLES FORT (KINSALE)
Date: 1760ca
Nature: 'They are now building new Barracks, and carrying on other Works here, under the Inspection of Captain Vallancey, an Engineer.'
Refs: Observations made by the Commissioners on their view of the several barracks throughout…Ireland (1760), Pt. 1, 10