Selected: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM
Name: | MURRAY, WILLIAM [1] |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM |
Date: | 1820-1825;1837 |
Nature: | New '2nd class' asylum for 100 patients designed by Francis Johnston with WM, 1820; opened 14 Jul 1825. Contractors: McCartney & Ballantine. Proposed adds. by WM, 1837. 'B' wing, 1846 (Builder: R. Clarke). |
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Drawings in IAA, Murray Collection, 92/46, nos. 63-73 (Bernadette Goslin, 'A History and descriptive catalogue of the Murray Collection of architectural drawings' (MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1990), 56-58; Jill Lever, ed., Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects L-N (1973), 101; 4th Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1836), 7; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 137-8. |
Name: | JOHNSTON, FRANCIS |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM |
Date: | 1820-24 |
Nature: | New. With William Murray, for Commissioners of Lunatic Asylums in Ireland. Completed Feb 1824. Cost £14,668. |
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Drawings and specifications, 1820-1825, in IAA, Murray Collection, nos. 63-73 (see Murray Collection catalogue, pp. 56-58); Minutes of Commissioners for General Control..and for Superintending…the Erection…of Asylums for the Lunatic Poor, Feb 1824 (information from Brendan O'Donoghue); Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 137-8. |
Name: | BOYD, JOHN [2] |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM |
Date: | 1860-1862;1875 |
Nature: | Alterations and additions. Tenders invited, Oct 1861. Work started Feb 1862. Estimated cost of Richard Cherry's tender £5,794.12s.9d. |
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Signed and dated plans for improving centre portion, 1875, in Armagh County Museum, 39/1967, see Hugh Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1972), 28 (no. 146); IAA, PKS A03 (Dec 1861, p.90v), L1 (pp.184-192,194-5,206,275,293,298,307 &c.); B 18, 2 Jun 1860, 347; DB 2, 1 Jun 1860, 266; 3, 15 Dec 1861, 713; 4, 1 Apr,1 Oct 1862, 85 (wrongly named as Omagh),254; IB 17, 1 Jun 1875, 152; 19, 1 Feb 1877, 43; Armagh Guardian, 18 Oct 1861, 14 Mar,24 Oct 1862; R. McKinstry, R. Oram, R. Weatherup, P. Wilson, The Buildings of Armagh (UAHS, 1992),193; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 138. |
Name: | PHILLIPS, J.J., & SON |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM |
Date: | 1891-1897 |
Nature: | RC chapel and detached hospital for 150 patients at rear of old building. (Also enlargement of dining hall?). Estimated cost: £3,950. Chapel dedicated by Cardinal Logue, 13 Dec 1896. Builder: McLaughlin & Harvey, Belfast. |
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IAA, PKS 0700, B15/41 (missing), A07 (Aug 1891, p.406); Architect 46, 26 Aug 1891, suppl. p.1; IB 35, 1 Oct 1893, 228; 40th Report on District, Criminal and Private Lunatic Asylums (1891), 10; 44th Report (1895), 11; 46th Report (1897), 17; 48th Report (1899), 27; B 71, 26 Dec 1896, 546; 72, 20 Mar 1897, 279; 46th Report on…Lunatic Asylums (1797), 17; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 138-139. |
Name: | BOYLE, JOHN CHARTERS |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM |
Date: | 1900 |
Nature: | Alterations & new entrance gates |
Refs: |
IB 42, 15 Jul 1900, 421; B 58, 30 Jun 1900, 654; Architect 62, 22 Jun 1900, suppl. p.9; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 138. |
Name: | DORMAN, RICHARD HENRY |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM |
Date: | 1901;1903;1907 |
Nature: | Piggeries and slaughter houses; erection of cottages & conversion of single rooms into dormitories; alts. to corridors male side main building. Hill Building, 1903. |
Refs: | IB 43, 1 Jan 1901, 585; 45, 13 Aug,10 Sep 1903, 1932,1984; 49, 18 May 1907, 370; Brendan O'Donoghue, The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 155 |
Name: | HENRY, GEORGE AUSTYN |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM |
Date: | 1937-38 |
Nature: | Renovation and modernizing. £30,000. |
Refs: |
IB 79, 23 Jan,20 Mar,1 May,30 Oct 1937, 82,262,402,962; 80, 9 Jul 1938, 581; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 433. |
Name: | FERGUSON & MCILVEEN |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM |
Date: | 1948 |
Nature: | Alts. & adds. |
Refs: | IB 90, 12 Jun 1948, 472 |
Name: | BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Proposed adds? |
Refs: | Plan formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son |