Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

County surveyor for Co. Fermanagh, 1834-1876. Roderick Gray may have been born in Enniskillen, circa 1814.(1) He was appointed to the county surveyorship of Co. Fermanagh in May 1834(2) and held the post for over forty years until his retirement in 1876.(3) He proposed two schemes for reducing flooding by Lough Erne, which were criticised as useless by BARRY D GIBBONS  BARRY D GIBBONS in a report for the Board of Works published in 1853.(4) He designed Quivvy CI church in Co. Cavan in 1854.(5)

ICEI: founder member, 1835;(6) no longer a member in 1870.(7)

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(1) www.familysearch.org shows a Roderick Gray who was born in Enniskillen, circa 1814, and married there circa 1839. Another Roderick Gray, possibly an illegitimate son, was born in Enniskillen circa 1837 and emigrated to New Zealand, where he married a Maori woman in 1864 and died in 1906.
(2) Dublin Evening Post, 20 May 1834.
(3) B.O'D.
(4) B.O'D.
(5) B 12, 21 Oct 1854, 552.
(6) Photocopy of transcript of minutes of first meeting of Engineers' Society of Ireland, 6 Aug 1835, in IAA, Jones File F73..
(6) List of ICEI members in IB 12, 15 Aug 1870, 197.


3 work entries listed in chronological order for GRAY, RODERICK


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Building: CO. CAVAN, QUIVVY (BELTURBET), CHURCH (CI)
Date: 1854
Nature: New chapel-of-ease in parish of Drumlane erected and endowed at sole cost of 5th Earl and Countess of Lanesborough.  FS laid by Countess of Lanesborough, 4 Oct 1854. Consecrated, 12 Aug 1856. Contractor: Hague, Cavan. (Closed, 1986.)
Refs: B 12, 21 Oct 1854, 552;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 198-9.

Building: CO. MONAGHAN, CLONES, INFANT SCHOOL
Date: 1859
Nature: New school in Gothic style 'built under the direction of Mr Gray, of Enniskillen'.  Opened 14 Nov 1859.
Refs: Armagh Guardian, 18 Nov 1859.

Building: CO. FERMANAGH, ENNISKILLEN, EAST BRIDGE STREET, COURT HOUSE
Date: 1862?
Nature: Alts. & adds., to cost less than £2,500. Tenders invited Feb 1860. But still to be remodelled in Feb 1862 'at expense not exceeding £1200'.
Refs: General Advertiser, 4 Feb 1860; DB 2, 1 Mar 1860, 225; 4, 1 Mar 1862, 58; B 18, ? ? 1860, 141; C.E.B. Brett, Court Houses and Market Houses of the Province of Ulster (UAHS, 1973), 80