Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION STREET UPPER, NO. 024 (MORNINGTON HOUSE)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: MYERS, CHRISTOPHER [1]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION STREET UPPER, NO. 024 (MORNINGTON HOUSE)
Date: 1762
Nature: O'Dwyer suggests that this house, built for 1st Earl of Mornington on site leased by Earl of Antrim, was designed by CM.
Refs: F. O'Dwyer, 'Making connections in Georgian Ireland', BIGS 38 (1996-97), 15;  Frederick O'Dwyer, 'In search of Christopher Myers' in Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill, eds., Studies in the Gothic Revival (Dublin, 2008), 94-95;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 591-2. .

Name: BYRNE, JAMES [1]*
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION STREET UPPER, NO. 024 (MORNINGTON HOUSE)
Date: 1765
Nature: 'The plasterwork here [stair hall] is reminiscent of James Byrne's work at No. 12 Merrion Square'.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),592.