Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 046-49 (GILBEY)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: MURRAY, WILLIAM GEORGE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 046-49 (GILBEY)
Date: 1864-1867
Nature: Remodelling of existing houses with new front and entrance to form offices; extensive wine stores. Cost about £10,000. Contractor: John Nolan, Meredyth Place (originally Doolin?) Demolished 1972.
Refs: B 22, 6 Aug 1864, 589; DB 6, 15 Mar,1 Aug 1864, 44,154; IB 9, 1,15 Jun,1 Jul 1867, 148(illus.),164,169(illus.); Jubilee Number 1908, 8(illus.); Jeanne Sheehy, 'William G. Murray and the Gilbey Building', Irish Times, 7 Jun 1972.

Name: LYNN, SAMUEL FERRES *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 046-49 (GILBEY)
Date: 1864-65
Nature: SFL exhibits rough sketch models of heads of Lord Palmerston & Mr Gladstone for W.A. Gilbey's wine stores at RIAI first annual exhibition. (Now (2010) in NGI.)
Refs: DB 6, 15 May 1864, 100; 7, 15 Jul 1865, 173; Martyn Anglesea, 'The Lynn Brothers, architect and sculptor', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 1989-90, 259