Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. OFFALY, TULLAMORE, CORMAC STREET, COUNTY GAOL

Name: BUTLER, WILLIAM DEANE
Building: CO. OFFALY, TULLAMORE, CORMAC STREET, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1820
Nature: Unexecuted designs for same?
Refs: E.McP, citing Queen's Co. Grand Jury Presentments 1820

Name: MURRAY, WILLIAM [1]
Building: CO. OFFALY, TULLAMORE, CORMAC STREET, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1820
Nature: Unexecuted designs for new gaol.
Refs: Designs, signed and dated Dublin, 1820, in IAA, Murrary Collection, 92/46 (see Bernadette Goslin, 'A History and descriptive catalogue of the Murray Collection of architectural drawings' (MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1990), 339-40); front elevation exh. RHA 1844, no. 430

Name: HENRY, MULLINS & MCMAHON *
Building: CO. OFFALY, TULLAMORE, CORMAC STREET, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1826
Nature: H,M & McM contractors for same.
Refs: NA/SPO CSORP 1825/13,514 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: PAIN, JAMES
Building: CO. OFFALY, TULLAMORE, CORMAC STREET, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1826
Nature: New gaol on radiating principle (Similar to Limerick). Plans exhibited at Spring Assizes, 1825. FS laid 13 Sep 1826 (date on plaque on building).
Refs: NA/SPO CSORP 1826/13,514 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); King's County Presentments  (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); David Lee & Debbie Jacobs, James Pain, architect (Limerick Civic Trust, 2005), 65

Name: KILLALY, JOHN A.
Building: CO. OFFALY, TULLAMORE, CORMAC STREET, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1826
Nature: New gaol. FS laid 13 Sep 1826. Plaque over entrance records that 'John Killay[sic], Esq.' was engineer for same. Is this a mistake for John Killaly?
Refs: William Garner, Tullamore Architectural Heritage (An Foras Forbatha, 1980), 13

Name: WELLAND, WILLIAM JOHN
Building: CO. OFFALY, TULLAMORE, CORMAC STREET, COUNTY GAOL
Date: 1888
Nature: Tenders invited for erecting warders' houses for General Prisons Board, Apr 1888.  (Architect not named, but WJW was architect to the Board.)
Refs: Irish Times, 23 Apr 1888.