Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DONEGAL, BALLYSHANNON, COURT HOUSE

Name: OWEN, ENOCH TREVOR
Building: CO. DONEGAL, BALLYSHANNON, COURT HOUSE
Date: 1880-81
Nature: New court house. Symmetrical front consisting of. gabled central block with 3 roundheaded windows, flanking single-bay wings each containing door with window above. Contract agreed 16 Aug 1881. Contractor: James Monaghan; 'undistinguished' (Brett). (Presentment Book 1891, p.15, item 201 (1892 presentment) lists rent paid for 'site of new court house', May-Nov 1891; does this mean that it had not been built by this date?)
Refs: Drawings, signed by ETO and Alfred R. Owen, 1880, agreed with James Monaghan, contractor, 16 Aug 1881, and in NA, OPW5HC/4/395 C.E.B. Brett, Court Houses and Market Houses of the Province of Ulster (UAHS, 1973), 58

Name: OWEN, ALFRED RICHARD
Building: CO. DONEGAL, BALLYSHANNON, COURT HOUSE
Date: 1880-81
Nature: New court house. Symmetrical front consisting of. gabled central block with 3 roundheaded windows, flanking single-bay wings each containing door with window above. Contract agreed 16 Aug 1881. Contractor: James Monaghan; 'undistinguished' (Brett). (Presentment Book 1891, p.15, item 201 (1892 presentment) lists rent paid for 'site of new court house', May-Nov 1891; does this mean that it had not been built by this date?)
Refs: Drawings, signed by ETO and Alfred R. Owen, 1880, agreed with James Monaghan, contractor, 16 Aug 1881, and in NA, OPW5HC/4/395; C.E.B. Brett, Court Houses and Market Houses of the Province of Ulster (UAHS, 1973), 58