Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TYRONE, DUNGANNON, OAKS ROAD, SHEILS' ALMSHOUSES

Name: LANYON, LYNN & LANYON
Building: CO. TYRONE, DUNGANNON, OAKS ROAD, SHEILS' ALMSHOUSES
Date: 1866
Nature: Row of 5 4-roomed houses, 5 3-roomed houses and 10 2-roomed houses. Row returned at each end. Central clock tower. Early French style, built of local sandstone with limestone bands. Cost: £4,800. Builder: Steward.
Refs: IAA, PKS A03 (Mar 1866, p.116v); B 24, 14 Apr 1866, 273;  Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 260.

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. TYRONE, DUNGANNON, OAKS ROAD, SHEILS' ALMSHOUSES
Date: 1912
Nature: Tenders invited for erection of block of houses and laundry adjacent to present buildings. For Governors of Charles Sheils' Institution, Dungannon. Contractor: P. Martin, Ann St, Dungannon.
Refs: IB 54, 20 Jan,16 Mar 1912, 51,172; R.W. Oram & P.J. Rankin, Historic Buildings in…Dungannon & Cookstown (UAHS, 1971), 19;  Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 345.