Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DONEGAL, BUNCRANA, COURT HOUSE

Name: OWEN, JACOB
Building: CO. DONEGAL, BUNCRANA, COURT HOUSE
Date: 1840ca
Nature: New court house (or enlargement and remodelling of one built ten years earlier) with round-headed windows and Greek revival doorcase. Perhaps by JO, who uses exactly the same doorcase on Galway Custom House. Loan of £950 from Board of Works, 1842.
Refs: Grand Jury Presentments, 1839, 1840; 2 unsigned, undated sheets of working details in NA, OPW drawings collection (old ref. B.7.4); 10th Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1842), 22; C.E.B. Brett, Court Houses and Market Houses of the Province of Ulster (UAHS, 1973), 58; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 155

Name: DOHERTY, WILLIAM JAMES [2]
Building: CO. DONEGAL, BUNCRANA, COURT HOUSE
Date: 1925
Nature: Reconstruction.
Refs: IB 67, 3 Oct 1925, 817