Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LOUTH, DROGHEDA, CORNMARKET

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. LOUTH, DROGHEDA, CORNMARKET
Date: 1787;1796
Nature: Designs prepared 1787. FS laid 8 Oct 1787? (but building delayed until 1796?)
Refs: Drogheda Corporation Book, 9 May,27 Jul 1796 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); 'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 3; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993),243; P.J. Geraghty, 'Urban improvement and the erection of municipal buildings in County Louth during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries', County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 25, no. 3, 307