Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, COLLEGE ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

Name: HILL, HENRY
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COLLEGE ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: 1845?
Nature: Projected schemes.
Refs: Set of sketch designs in collection of Myrtle Allen, Ballymaloe, Co. Cork (photographed by IAA, neg. nos. S/2321/1,3, S/2322/12-16)

Name: DEANE, KEARNS
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COLLEGE ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: 1846-49
Nature: New college. With Thomas Deane (q.v.).
Refs: APSD II, C, 147

Name: DEANE, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COLLEGE ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: 1846-49
Nature: New college. With Kearns Deane. Elizabethan style. U-shaped plan, with high entrance tower. Limestone. Cost £35,000. Opened 7 Nov 1849. Clerk of Works: Daniel O'Callaghan. Contractor: John Butler, Rathmines. Statue of Queen Victoria on gable end of Aula Maxima presented by Sir Thomas Deane and unveiled during Queen's visit to Cork in 1849 (replaced in 1940s by statue of St Finbarr).
Refs: Plans and elevation in 16th Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1848), appendix B, 7,8,9 (illus. repr. F. O'Dwyer, 'Building empires: architecture, politics and the Board of Works 1760-1860', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 5 (2002), Pl.37); see also 15th Report (1847), 6, and 17th Report (1849), 25; B 4, 20 Jun 1846, 295; 6, 30 Dec 1848, 630(illus.),631; 7, 17 Nov 1849, 550; DB 2, 1 Jul 1860, 297; DB 2, 1 Jul 1860, 297; APSD II, C, 147; Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (Cork University Press, 1997), 52-86(illus.),287  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 235.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COLLEGE ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: 1864
Nature: Gate lodge at rear entrance.
Refs: 33rd Report of Board of Public Works Ireland (1864), 7

Name: MELLON, J.H.
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COLLEGE ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: 1866
Nature: Proposed additions to old gate lodge by addition of half-timbered 1st floor and porch to existing neo-classical lodge. Drawing signed by JHM.
Refs: NA, OPW drawings collection, old ref. F.3.8

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COLLEGE ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: 1866
Nature: Boole memorial window erected at gable end of examination hall. Represents leaders of science from ancient to modern times, including Dr Boole himself at base of central compartment.
Refs: B 24, 29 Dec 1866, 962-3

Name: OWEN, ENOCH TREVOR
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COLLEGE ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: 1879
Nature: Western road gatehouse, by E.T. Owen and/or J.H.Owen. Contractor: E. Fitzgerald, Cork. Metal gates by John Perrot, Cork. (Demolished in late 1920s)
Refs: IB 21, 1 May 1879, 130; 60, 2 Mar 1918, 119; Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (1997), 559,n32

Name: OWEN, JAMES HIGGINS
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COLLEGE ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: 1879
Nature: Extensive adds. from the designs and under superintendence of the architect of the Board of Public Works. 2nd contract comprises Western Road gatehouse (by E.T. Owen and/or J.H.Owen), extensive plant houses 'on new ground lately purchased', and observatory with telescope by Howard Grubb, Rathmines, Dublin. Contractor: E. Fitzgerald, Cork. Metal gates by John Perrot, Cork. (Demolished in late 1920s)
Refs: IB 21, 1 May 1879, 130; 60, 2 Mar 1918, 119; Architect 23, 31 Jan 1880, 79; Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (1997), 559,n32

Name: ST AUBYN, JAMES PIERS #
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COLLEGE ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: 1881-84
Nature: Hall of residence with lecture room for Church of Ireland students (Berkeley Hall)). For William Bence-Jones in association with the Rev. Dr George Webster.  To have been carried out by Bence-Jones's workmen under a foreman.   After Bence Jones was boycotted, building was suspended and resumed by Webster with Delany as contractor only after Bence Jones had given up his association with the project. Opened 1884.
Refs: Information from Ronnie Herlihy, Cork (2009), citing Alfred G. Dann, George Webster - A Memoir (1892)., 109-137, and Patrick Conlan, 'Berkeley Hall - St Anthony's Hall - Honan Hostel', JCHAS 100, 16-28;  Irish Times, 19 Jul 1881.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COLLEGE ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: 1884
Nature: New hall of residence completed at cost of £9,000. 120 x 36ft containing 40 bedrooms, hall, dining room &c. Known as 'The Berkeley'.£2,500 provided by Board of Public Works.
Refs: IB 26, 15 Sep 1884, 280; 53rd Report of the Board of Public Works Ireland (1884-5), 13

Name: HILL, ARTHUR
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COLLEGE ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: 1909-1911
Nature: New science buildings (chemistry & physics labs.) and? block of classrooms. Contractor: W. O'Connell & Co. Ltd. £12,000.
Refs: IB 51, 24 Jul,27 Nov 1909, 453,756; 52, 2 Apr,14 May,10 Dec 1910, 217,301,763; 53, 30 Sep 1911, 661; ?IA & C 1, 4 Feb 1911, 28. Illus, photograph in advertisment for Delabole slate in IB 54, 12 Oct 1912, 577.

Name: WALLER, JAMES HARDRESS DE WARENNE
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COLLEGE ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: 1911a
Nature: Ferro-concrete bridge over branch of River Lee in grounds of UCC, .replacing wooden bridge built in early 1880s. College coat of arms modelled in clay by J.J. O'Brien, Cork School of Art, and reproduced in cement.
Refs: J.H. de W. Waller, 'A reinforced concrete bridge', TICEI 37 (1910-11), 81-109

Name: O'FLYNN & O'CONNOR
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COLLEGE ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: 1927
Nature: Tenders invited for erecting new ferro-concrete bridge over river Lee and cut stone & wrought iron entrance gates.
Refs: IB 69, 12 Nov 1927, 848

Name: HILL, HENRY HOUGHTON
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COLLEGE ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: 1927
Nature: Dairy Science Buildings.
Refs: Design exh. RHA 1927, no. 237; photographs of exterior in collection of Myrtle Allen, Ballymaloe House, Co. Cork (copy photographs by IAA, neg. nos. S/2326/3,4);  Irish Times, 14 Mar 1927 (advertisement for clerk of works);  B 69, 3,17 Sep 1927, 663,690; Architect & Building News 118, 16 Sep 1927, 476 (advt. for tenders).

Name: MURPHY, SEAMUS *
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COLLEGE ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: 1933
Nature: Statue of St Finbarr on gable of ?dining hall.
Refs: Peter Murray, ed., Séamus Murphy (1907-1975) Sculptor (Crawford Art Gallery & Gandon Editions, 2007). 70(illus.).

Name: BARRY, P.R. ##
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COLLEGE ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: 1947
Nature: Gates & railings at Fernhurst Ave, Western Rd
Refs: IB 89, 6 Sep 1947, 668

Name: BARRETT, JAMES RUPERT EDWARD BOYD
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COLLEGE ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: 1947-1948;1958
Nature: Addition to restaurant & other works;research rooms
Refs: IB 89, 12,26 Jul,18 Oct 1947, 520,556,782; 90, 7 Feb 1948, 104; 100, 25 Jan 1958, 61

Name: BARRETT, JAMES RUPERT EDWARD BOYD
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COLLEGE ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: 1952;1963
Nature: Electrical engineering building, 1952. Additional storey, 1963
Refs: IB 94, 22 Nov 1952, 1127; Architectural Survey 1954, 16(illus.)

Name: BARRETT, JAMES RUPERT EDWARD BOYD
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COLLEGE ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: 1964
Nature: Science building.
Refs: IB 106, 1 Aug 1964, 600

Name: PAIN, GEORGE RICHARD
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COLLEGE ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: ?
Nature: Portico by GRP?
Refs: C.P. Curran, 'Benjamin Woodward, Ruskin and the O'Sheas', Studies 29 (Jun 1940), 255-68 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: DEANE, SON & WOODWARD
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, COLLEGE ROAD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Date: ?
Nature: Designs for library fittings (including chimneypiece).
Refs: NLI, MS. 4824 (B. of I.)