Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NO. 023-27 (MCSWINEY, DELANY & CO.)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: MURRAY & DENNY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NO. 023-27 (MCSWINEY, DELANY & CO.)
Date: 1852
Nature: Murray & Denny win 2nd prize of £15 for design for 'monster house' in Sackville St, opposite Post Office. (Is
Refs: B 10, 9 Oct 1852, 641

Name: CALDBECK, WILLIAM FRANCIS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NO. 023-27 (MCSWINEY, DELANY & CO.)
Date: 1852-1856
Nature: WFC winner of 1st premium. Authorship disputed with W.D. Butler. WFC paid £300 for work on same.
Refs: B 10, 9 Oct 1852, 641; 14, 3 May 1856, 241; M. Craig, 'The account-book of William Caldbeck, architect', Architectural History 27 (1984), 424,426

Name: BUTLER, WILLIAM DEANE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NO. 023-27 (MCSWINEY, DELANY & CO.)
Date: 1852-53
Nature: WDB's design selected despite award of 1st & 2nd premiums to others. Preparations being made, Nov 1852.  To have 82 ft long frontage 'of an unusually ornamented description'. Building constructed in 'a little over three months'. Cost: £40,000.  Contractor: Beardwood. Refurbishment and alterations, 1872, carried out by Entwistle, York St;  gas fittings and ormolu work by Gregg & Son, Sackville St. 
Refs: For Butler's dispute with Caldbeck over this matter, see RIAI Council minutes, 4 Mar 1853 and 20 May 1853, pp.114-115,119; B 10, 9 Oct,13  Nov 1852, 641,721; 15, 5 Dec 1857, 710;  Irish Times, 1 Apr 1872 (long description of building).watercolour of exterior by Michael Angelo Hayes in NGI, Cat. 2980; photograph of interior after fire in RIA; see also Peter Costello, The Heart of the City (Dublin, 1992); M. Craig, 'The account-book of William Caldbeck, architect', Architectural History 27 (1984), 426; Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 21 (1858), 34

Name: GEOGHEGAN, CHARLES
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NO. 023-27 (MCSWINEY, DELANY & CO.)
Date: ?
Nature: Plans by CG for 'McSweeney & Co.'; probably McSwiney & Co., drapers, of 23-27 Sackville St.
Refs: MS list of plans in stable of CG, 2 Oct 1896, in possession of Joe macEochagáin, 2006 (photocopy in IAA, RP.B.48 (1-3))