Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CHARLEVILLE, CHARTER SCHOOL

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, CHARLEVILLE, CHARTER SCHOOL
Date: 1747
Nature: New school for 20 pupils opened 1747. (In 1837 occupied by rector, Rev. J.R. Cotter, inventor of 'a new and very powerful bass wind instrument, called the Basso Hibernico' (Lewis))
Refs: Gentleman's & Citizen's Almanack (1750); John Angell, A General History of Ireland (1781), 80 (which gives date of opening as 1748); S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 325