DALY, ARTHUR JOSEPH

Borough surveyor for Wexford and Drogheda. Arthur Daly, was born on 24 December 1892 and educated at the Christian Brothers' Schools, Our Lady's Mount, Cork. He was admitted to University College, Cork, in 1911, obtaining the BE degree in 1914. He then entered the Works Department of the Admiralty Dockyard at Rosyth, Scotland, transferring to Invergordon Dockyard in February 1918. He remained at Invergordon until at least 1921. By 1922 he had returned to Cork, where he acted as clerk of works for the building of the church of Christ the King at Turner's Cross, under construction between 1929 and 1931.(1)  By 1932 he had become Borough Surveyor for Wexford. In 1934 he succeeded J.J. BURKE  BURKE as borough surveyor for Drogheda, a post which he held until his death on 16 January 1942.

Inst.CE: elected associate member, 13 January 1920.

Addresses: Station Hotel, Alness, Ross-shire, 1920; Admiralty Works Department, Invergordon, Ross-shire, 1921; 9 Hackett's Terrace, St Luke's, Cork, 1922;(2) Town Hall, Wexford, <=1932-1934; Town Hall, Drogheda, 1934-1942.

References

All information in this entry not otherwise attributed is from the records of the Institution of Civil Engineers, London, kindly supplied by Mrs Carol Morgan, Archivist, and from the brief obituary in IB 84, 31 Jan 1942, 44.


(1) Irish Times, 17 Mar 1932. 
(2) This was probably his parents' house; according to Guy's Cork Directory(1915) a Thomas Daly lived at this address.

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Building:	CO. CORK, CORK, TURNER'S CROSS, CHURCH OF CHRIST THE KING (RC)
Date:	1927-1931
Nature:	AJD clerk of works for building of same.
Refs:	Irish Times, 17 Mar 1932.

Building:	CO. LOUTH, DROGHEDA, GALLOWS LANE, HOUSES (032)
Date:	1941
Nature:	-
Refs:	IB 83, 12 Apr 1941, 196