Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DORSET STREET UPPER, FIRE STATION

Name: MCCARTHY, CHARLES JAMES
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DORSET STREET UPPER, FIRE STATION
Date: 1900-03
Nature: New fire station with campanile, for Dublin Corporation Waterworks Committee.Tenders invited, Mar-Apr 1900.  Completed and handed over to Corporation, Oct 1902..  Contractor: James Whelan.
Refs: Drawing of ground floor plan (dated 1900) in Dublin City Archives. Irish Times, 8 Jan,29 Mar,5 Apr,12 Jul 1900, 16 Oct 1902;  IB 42, 15 Apr,1 Jul 1900, 334,403; 43, 15 Aug 1901, 830 (may refer to Buckingham St fire station?);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 190.