Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CLARENCE MANGAN ROAD, FAIRBROTHERS FIELDS HOUSING SCHEME

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).
Refs: Irish Times, 29 Dec 1922,29 Nov 1923,9 Apr 1925.;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 660.