Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST STEPHEN'S GREEN, PARK

Name: NEVILLE, ARTHUR
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST STEPHEN'S GREEN, PARK
Date: 1809
Nature: Plans for improvement by A. Nevill, jr.
Refs: Drawings in PRONI D562/7742 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: NEVILLE, PARKE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST STEPHEN'S GREEN, PARK
Date: 1851
Nature: Plaque in Green (near statue of Lord Eglinton) commemorated drainage of same to plans of PN. Contractor: John Irwine Whitty, 1 Henrietta St.
Refs: IB 36, 1 Jul 1894, 148

Name: HEMANS, GEORGE WILLOUGHBY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST STEPHEN'S GREEN, PARK
Date: 1864
Nature: Design for improvements 'intended to be effected' when Green is opened as public park.
Refs: B 22, 15 Mar 1864, 283

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST STEPHEN'S GREEN, PARK
Date: 1880
Nature: Gardener's lodge, for Sir Arthur Guinness. Contractor: Millard. Estimated cost £2,256. Also gate piers and shelters.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0625, B09/37, A06 (Aug 1880); IB 22, 1 Aug 1880, 221; 36, 1 Jul 1894, 153.

Name: SHEPPARD, WILLIAM
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST STEPHEN'S GREEN, PARK
Date: 1883a
Nature: Employed by Lord Ardilaun 'to superintend the works of improvement'. Cost about £12,000.
Refs: Thom's Official Directory (1883), advertisement supplement, 76;  E. Malins & P. Bowe, Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830 (1980), 148(illus.); Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 533;  Irish Times, 29 Oct(?) 1913 (information from Eric Sheppard, Apr 2009).

Name: FARRELL & SONS *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST STEPHEN'S GREEN, PARK
Date: 1892
Nature: Statue of Lord Ardilaun by Thomas Farrell.
Refs: W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 337;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 165, Fig.226;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 533.


Name: SHEPPARD, OLIVER *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST STEPHEN'S GREEN, PARK
Date: 1908
Nature: Bronze bust of J.C. Mangan at SW edge of central parterre.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 534.

Name: MCLEISH, ALEXANDER
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST STEPHEN'S GREEN, PARK
Date: 1924
Nature: AMcL publishes proposals for ornamentation of Green.
Refs: E. Malins & P. Bowe, Irish Gardens & Demesnes from 1830 (1980), 19