Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, BLACKWALL, LINDVILLE PRIVATE LUNATIC ASYLUM

Name: ATKINS, WILLIAM
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, BLACKWALL, LINDVILLE PRIVATE LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1855
Nature: Neo-Romanesque private lunatic asylum being erected on the Blackwall side of the river for Dr Osborne. Red brick with limestone dressings.
Refs: DB 6, 15 Oct 1864, 205-6; B 8, 20 Oct 1855, 502; Jeremy Williams, 'William Atkins 1812-1887, a forgotten Cork Pre-Raphaelite' in A. Bernelle (ed.), Decantations: a tribute to Maurice Craig (1992), 243.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, BLACKWALL, LINDVILLE PRIVATE LUNATIC ASYLUM
Date: 1908
Nature: RC chapel built 1908.
Refs: 56th Report on District, Criminal and Private Lunatic Asylums (1908), 620