Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CAVAN, COOTEHILL, MARKET HOUSE

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CAVAN, COOTEHILL, MARKET HOUSE
Date: 1806
Nature: 'the market house, a large, ablong, commodious building was erected in…1806, and during the propsperity of the linen trade the upper range was used for the measuring and stamping of linen whilst the lower was, and still is, employed as the general mart of potatoes amd cprm. The upper portion of the buisling has been occasionally rented to the government as a barrack for a company of infantry.'
Refs: Angélique Day & Patrick McWilliams, Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol. 40: Counties of South Ulster 1834-8, 4