Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GRANGEGORMAN, RICHMOND PENITENTIARY

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GRANGEGORMAN, RICHMOND PENITENTIARY
Date: 1810-16
Nature: FJ amended design twice before FS was laid in 1812. Date on weather vane 1816. Prison opened April 1820.
Refs: Designs, dated 1810-1812, in IAA, Murray Collection, nos. 424-433 (see Murray Collection catalogue, pp. 156-7; 'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 3;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 256-7

Name: SEMPLE, JOHN [3]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GRANGEGORMAN, RICHMOND PENITENTIARY
Date: 1838p
Nature: Addition of 96 cells, kitchens and infirmary. Tenders invited, Sep 1838.
Refs: NA/SPO CSORP 1838/2333 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 28 Sep 1838 (information from Frank Keohane, Mar 2010). 

Name: MULVANY, JOHN SKIPTON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GRANGEGORMAN, RICHMOND PENITENTIARY
Date: 1850-51
Nature: Adds. & alts., including new call-hall, consultation room, remodelling of chapel, bathrooms, clothes stores, fumigating rooms &c., for Board of Superintendence of City Prisons. Contractors for part or all of work: Butler & Drake.
Refs: B 8, 3,31 Aug 1850, 368,416; 9, 16 Aug 1851, 517;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 258.

Name: LYONS, JOHN JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GRANGEGORMAN, RICHMOND PENITENTIARY
Date: 1863
Nature: Wins second prize of £15 in competition for alts. & adds. to female penitentiary.(Competition announced May, 1863, see Freeman's Journal, 16 May 1863.)
Refs: Irish Times, 20 Oct 1863.

Name: HAGUE, WILLIAM [2]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GRANGEGORMAN, RICHMOND PENITENTIARY
Date: 1863
Nature: Wins 3rd prize of £10 in competition for alts. & adds. to female penitentiary. (Competition announced May, 1863, see Freeman's Journal, 16 May 1863.)
Refs: Irish Times, 20 Oct 1863.

Name: CARSON, EDWARD HENRY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GRANGEGORMAN, RICHMOND PENITENTIARY
Date: 1863-1867
Nature: EHC wins competition for alts & adds, new female prison (competition announced May, 1863, see Freeman's Journal, 16 May 1863.). Tenders invited, Mar 1864.  Builder: Henry Quinn.
Refs: IAA, PKS B03/11, L01 (pp.579-85,598,613,784,787,802, &c.); DB 5, 15 Oct 1863, 170; 6, 1 May,1 Aug 1864, 87,149; 8, 15 Oct 1866, 253; 9, 15 Jan,1 Jun 1867, 24,140; B 24,27 Oct 1866, 800;  Irish Times, 20 Oct 1863,12 Mar 1864.

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GRANGEGORMAN, RICHMOND PENITENTIARY
Date: 1898
Nature: Tenders invited for carrying out alterations to Richmond Asylum and Grangegorman Prison, Mar 1898.
Refs: Irish Times, 4 Mar 1898.