Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CIRCULAR ROAD NORTH, NO. 191-195 (FEMALE ORPHAN HOUSE)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: DAVIS, WHITMORE [2]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CIRCULAR ROAD NORTH, NO. 191-195 (FEMALE ORPHAN HOUSE)
Date: 1792-92
Nature: Engaged to build same by John Latouche.
Refs: Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/128; E.McParland, 'The papers of Bryan Bolger, measurer', Dublin Historical Record XXV., no. 4 (Sept. 1972), 124; J. Ferrar, View of Dublin (1796), 66; 'Nemo', A Brief Record of the Female Orphan Houseā€¦Dublin (1893), 22

Name: FARRELL, WILLIAM
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CIRCULAR ROAD NORTH, NO. 191-195 (FEMALE ORPHAN HOUSE)
Date: 1817-19
Nature: Designs for addition of Gothic chapel wing and offices to existing classical block.
Refs: General plan and elevation(s) in William Farrell album, Houghton Library, Harvard University (ref: RAN 1/N/4) nos. 1,2, see John Harris, A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture and Landscape Gardening 1550-1900 in American Collections (1971), 96; details of chapel? plasterwork, inscr. Females Orphan House and s. William Farrell in NLI, Stapleton Collection, 2341, see Eugenie Carr, 'A catalogue of the Stapleton family collection of drawings in the National Library of Ireland', unpublished MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1985, 1206; PP 1819 (334) xvii. 671 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); NA/SPO 567/477/1 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: STAPLETON, GEORGE *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CIRCULAR ROAD NORTH, NO. 191-195 (FEMALE ORPHAN HOUSE)
Date: 1817-19
Nature: Chapel plasterwork possibly by GS.
Refs: Details of chapel? plasterwork, inscr. Females Orphan House and s. William Farrell in NLI, Stapleton Collection, 2341, see Eugenie Carr, 'A catalogue of the Stapleton family collection of drawings in the National Library of Ireland', unpublished MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1985, 1206,234

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CIRCULAR ROAD NORTH, NO. 191-195 (FEMALE ORPHAN HOUSE)
Date: 1887
Nature: Plastering work for H. Sharpe, builder.
Refs: IAA, PKS B13/41, A07, p.127 (Nov 1887)

Name: OWEN, CHARLES ASTLEY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CIRCULAR ROAD NORTH, NO. 191-195 (FEMALE ORPHAN HOUSE)
Date: 1909
Nature: New drainage. Contractor: Clifton & Cooper, Upr Gardiner St.
Refs: IB 51, 21 Aug 1909, 533

Name: MITCHELL, W. M., & SONS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CIRCULAR ROAD NORTH, NO. 191-195 (FEMALE ORPHAN HOUSE)
Date: 1937
Nature: New gate lodge, for Lynne & Co.
Refs: Drawings, &c., in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell collection, 79/17, Bin III, Roll 16

Name: SIBTHORPE, HENRY & SON *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CIRCULAR ROAD NORTH, NO. 191-195 (FEMALE ORPHAN HOUSE)
Date: ?
Nature: Decorative scheme for chapel chancel.
Refs: Drawing by H. Rogerson in IAA, Sibthorpe Collection Acc. 78/22.A17, and photographs of completed work in IAA (009/027 Y1-3)