Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, HIGH STREET, THOLSEL

Name: EVANS, AMBROSE
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, HIGH STREET, THOLSEL
Date: 1758
Nature: Plans submitted by EA.
Refs: NLI microfilm, Pos. 5136

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, HIGH STREET, THOLSEL
Date: 1760-61
Nature: New tholsel, costing £1,315.5s.8d. 'It is to be regretted that we have no memorial preserved of the artist who designed the plan of this tholsel. There was a tradition existing in the town down to twenty years since, and still remembered by a few, that the architect was an Italian.' (Could this be Davis Ducart?)
Refs: John Hogan, 'The Three Tholsels of Kilkenny', JRSAI 15 (1879-82), 236-252

Name: COLLES, WILLIAM [1]*
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, HIGH STREET, THOLSEL
Date: 1761
Nature: Possibly designed by WC, who executed the stonework
Refs: John Hogan, 'The Three Tholsels of Kilkenny', JRSAI 15 (1879-82), 236-252; Katherine M. Lanigan & Gerald Tyler, eds., Kilkenny: its architecture & history (An Taisce Kilkenny Association, 1977), 66; M. Craig, The Architecture of Ireland (1982), 202; J.G.A. Prim MSS, PRO (raef. from E.McP files)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, HIGH STREET, THOLSEL
Date: 1829
Nature: Small building at rear, including Mayor's offce, round, room, and closet ver it with spiral stairs connecting both. Bears plaque inscr. 'Posuit Anno Dom. 1829 Nat Alcock MD Praefectus'.
Refs: John Hogan, 'The Three Tholsels of Kilkenny', JRSAI 15 (1879-82), 236-252;

Name: HOGAN, JOHN *
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, HIGH STREET, THOLSEL
Date: 1853-54
Nature: Memorial bust to John Banim in niche in wall of Assembly Room.
Refs: John Hogan, 'The Three Tholsels of Kilkenny', JRSAI 15 (1879-82), 236-252;