Name: |
O'ROURKE, HORACE TENNYSON |
Building: |
CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CLARENCE MANGAN ROAD, FAIRBROTHERS FIELDS HOUSING SCHEME |
Date: |
1921-23;1925 |
Nature: |
'It is an impressive scheme of 370 houses...nominally by C.J. McCarthy biut very probably by Horace O'Rourke.'(Casey) Tenders invited for erection of 54 additional houses, Dec 1922. Contractors: Dublin Building Guild, wh built 58 houses at cost of £36,245 by end of Nov 1923. Tenders invited for erection of 5-roomed houses 'with the object of demonstrating the latest methods of building construction', Apr 1925 (architect not named).
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Refs: |
Irish Times, 29 Dec 1922,29 Nov 1923,9 Apr 1925.; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 660.
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