Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, USHER'S ISLAND, MENDICITY INSTITUTION

Name: PARKE, EDWARD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, USHER'S ISLAND, MENDICITY INSTITUTION
Date: 1825ca
Nature: Payments made to EP for work on conversion of Moira House into Mendicity Institution: £150 on 12 Dec 1825 and £76.19s.2d. on 21 Jul 1827.
Refs: 10th Report of the General Committee of the Association for the Supression of Mendicity in Dublin for the year 1827 (information from Aidan O'Boyle)

Name: BUTLER, JOHN STERLING
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, USHER'S ISLAND, MENDICITY INSTITUTION
Date: 1850-1852;1861-
Nature: Won prize for converting part into bathroom &c.   Alts. & adds (renewal of windows, replacement of 'heavy dead wall' & gates by railings, plastering of exterior in compo, replacement of large metal gutter by parape). Tenders invited for carrying out improvements to same, Jul 1861.
Refs: B 8, 5 Oct 1850, 473; 10, 13 Mar,20 Nov 1852, 172,738;  Irish Times, 9 Jul 1861, 7 May 1862;  DB 3, 15 Jul 1861, 578; 4, 15 May 1862, 123

Name: O'CONNOR & AYLWARD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, USHER'S ISLAND, MENDICITY INSTITUTION
Date: 1953;1955
Nature: Conversion of store, for Dublin Board of Assistance, 1953. Conversion of premises into female casualty dept. of Dublin Board of Assistance, 1955.
Refs: IB 95, 7 Nov 1953, 1164; 97, 16 Jul 1955, 737