Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CUSTOM HOUSE DOCKS

Name: GANDON, JAMES
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CUSTOM HOUSE DOCKS
Date: 1781-83
Nature: Dock and stores, for Commissioners of the Revenue.
Refs: See E. McParland, James Gandon: Vitruvius Hibernicus (1985), refs. as in index.

Name: RENNIE, JOHN [1]#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CUSTOM HOUSE DOCKS
Date: 1796a
Nature: Completed 1796. (Filled in c. 1927)
Refs: NA/PRO Wide Streets Commissioners maps, 37 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); G.N. Wright, Historical Guide to Dublin (2nd ed., 1825), 176; R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 18

Name: SEMPLE, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CUSTOM HOUSE DOCKS
Date: 1820
Nature: Proposal for vaulted masonry custom stores.  (Rennie's cast-iron design chosen instead.).
Refs: Letter from JS to Chief Secretary NA/SPO CSORP 1820, S85 & S118 (letter attacks Francis Johnston) (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),  124.

Name: MCKERLIE, JOHN GRAHAM (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CUSTOM HOUSE DOCKS
Date: 1863a
Nature: Suggests method adopted for restoring to position roof timbers of Great Sugar Store using screw jacks &c.
Refs: Talk given by J.H. Owen to RIAI, noted in RIAI minutes, 19 Nov 1863, 132

Name: MALLAGH, JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CUSTOM HOUSE DOCKS
Date: 1928-1935
Nature: New tobacco stores. Builder: W. & A. Roberts.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0045, 0046, 0988; IB 70, 13 Oct 1928, 882; bill of quantities and specifications, Dec 1934, PKS 0045; specification, Jan 1935, PKS 0046; bill of quantities, Feb 1935, PKS 0988

Name: CUNNINGHAM, ROBERT ALFRED
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CUSTOM HOUSE DOCKS
Date: 1936ca
Nature: Tobacco warehouse, with C.J. Buckley.
Refs: R.A. Cunningham & C.J. Buckley, 'New Tobacco Warehouse in Custom House Docks, Dublin' in TICEI 63 (1936-7), 223-240 (illus.)