Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BEAUMONT ROAD (DRUMCONDRA), THORNDALE VETERINARY RESEARCH STATION

Name: SCOTT, WILLIAM ALPHONSUS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BEAUMONT ROAD (DRUMCONDRA), THORNDALE VETERINARY RESEARCH STATION
Date: 1918-19
Nature: New research station for Dept of Agriculture & Technical Instruction. Contractor: H.C. McNally & Co., East Wall. Will cost £9,000. Completed by R.M. Butler. Demolished.
Refs: Drawings, dated 1918 and 1921, in OPW MSS, National Archives, Dublin; RHA 1919, no. 343; IB 60, 12 Oct 1918, 382; 61, 8 Nov 1919, 507; Building News 117, 14 Nov 1919, 396; Nicola Gordon Bowe & Elizabeth Cumming, The Arts and Crafts Movements in Dublin & Edinburgh 1885-1925 (1998), 190; Paul Larmour, '"The Drunken Man of Genius": William A. Scott (1871-1921)', Irish Architectural Review 3 (2001), 39

Name: BUTLER, RUDOLF MAXIMILIAN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BEAUMONT ROAD (DRUMCONDRA), THORNDALE VETERINARY RESEARCH STATION
Date: 1921-1923
Nature: Water tower, walls, piers, post mortem room, stable & farm offices. (Completion of W.A. Scott's scheme). Also gate lodge.Tenders for latter invited, Dec 1921.  Tenders invited for erection of cow byres, horse stalls, store houses, workshop and house for small animals, Dec 1922.
Refs: Drawings in OPW, I.5.10; IB 63, 10 Sep,8 Oct 1921, 606,666; 64, 23 Sep,30 Dec 1922, 654,907;  Irish Times, 14 Dec 1921;  Irish Times, 28 Dec 1922;  Nicola Gordon Bowe & Elizabeth Cumming, The Arts and Crafts Movements in Dublin & Edinburgh 1885-1925 (1998), 190