Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Engineer and architect. Christopher Myers, was born in  Lancashire in 1717.   He  was employed as an assistant on the development of Ramsgate Harbour in the opening years of the 1750s but by 1754 had  come to Ireland and  was working on the harbour at Ballycastle, Co. Antrim, which had been undergoing a long-running programme of public works to facilitate the transport by sea of coal from the local colliery.(1) A scurrilous attack on various engineers in Ireland in the Freeman's Journal for 31 May- 2nd June 1770 by a writer using the nom-de-plume 'La Verité' describes Myers as 'A Cabinet-maker in L[iver]p[oo]l, who, taking a precipitate Leave of his Creditors, was for his Dexterity rewarded with Apartments, two Years in his Majesty's Fleet, London' and subsequently came to Ireland where he was given employment by 'Mr [Thomas] O[me]r', who 'out of Compassion appointed him to oversee the Workmen then building a Lock on the River Shannon' and recommended him to the 'Earl of D-'. This account was challenged a few days later in an unsigned letter, written, probably by Myers himself, from 'the Corner House of Grafton-street, near College green', which asserted 'that every Line in that part of his Letter, regarding C- M-rs, is a malicious and most notorious Falshood…If the Author had traced C- M-rs's Place of Nativity he would find he was neither born nor bred in Obscurity, but regularly brought up to the Profession he now pursues, nor did he ever live in Liverpoole a single Day, but was invited from England, long before Mr O[me]r's coming to the Kingdom, by the Earl of A[n]t[ri]m to rebuild the Castle of Glenarm, in which he acquitted himself with Reputation, and was by that Nobleman's Friends recommended to the Earl of D-'.(2) A datestone at Glenarm Castle inscribed 'Rebuilt by Alexander the Present Earl in the year 1756'(3) presumably refers to the rebuilding of the castle by Myers, who must therefore have been working simultaneously on it and on Ballycastle Harbour, where he was engaged, if only intermittently, until at least 1760.(4)  Myers had a house at Glenarm until 1763, when he sold it(5)  He subsequently moved to Lisburn.  

The canal engineer THOMAS OMER THOMAS OMER , who had come to Ireland in 1755, did indeed consider Myers 'a very knowing and experienced workman' as regarded building in water.(6) In 1762 Myers was appointed director of the works on the Newry Canal in succession to ACHESON JOHNSTON ACHESON JOHNSTON . At that time it was proposed to rebuild and enlarge the Newry and Coalisland canals, extending the latter as far as Drumglass, in order to permit vessels of 100 tons to sail directly from Newry to the heart of the Co. Tyrone collieries. Myers started work on extending the Coalisland canal to the new, enlarged dimensions, excavating part of the line and building a large ship lock. After one or two years he came to the conclusion that it he could not undertake to continue the work in the absence of what he considered to be a sufficiently large grant from Government.(7) In 1767 he reported on the proposed extension to a parliamentary committee, and recommended that the idea of carrying a ship canal to the collieries should be abandoned.(8)

By the mid-1760s Myers was evidently also regarded as an architect of some standing. He was described as 'an Eminent Architect now in this Kingdom' when his advice was sought on designs for the Tholsel in Drogheda in 1765.(9) In the same year he sold up the contents of his house in Lisburn(10) and moved to Dublin, where he leased a large development site in Grafton Street, on which he designed a new house for the Dublin Society.(11)  He succeeded HENRY KEENE  HENRY KEENE as architect to the Barrack Board in 1766.(12) In 1771 he exhibited four designs at the Society of Artists in Dublin,(13) and in 1775 he was appointed architect to Trinity College.(14) As such he was responsible for the execution of the designs provided by WILLIAM CHAMBERS  WILLIAM CHAMBERS for the college theatre and chapel, though the latter remained incomplete at the time of his death.(15)

Myers died inJuly 1789, survived by his widow, Jane, née Graham,(16) whom he had married in Whitehaven on 21 March 1744.(17) He was buried in Monkstown graveyard.(18) He had several children. His eldest son, GRAHAM MYERS GRAHAM MYERS , his fourth son, CHRISTOPHER MYERS [2] CHRISTOPHER MYERS [2] , and his fifth son, RANDAL MYERS RANDAL MYERS , all became architects or builders.(18) His only daughter, Elizabeth, married Patrick Allen of Kilroot, Co. Antrim ,in 1768.(19) He died at the end of June or beginning of July 1789.(20) He was replaced by Graham Myers as architect to Trinity College, Dublin, on 11 July 1789,(21) and his will was proved in the Prerogative Court four months later, on 17 October.(22)

There is room for some confusion between Christopher Myers [1], Christopher Myers [2] and Graham Myers, and it is not always clear which of them is being referred to. Was it Christopher Myers [1] or Graham Myers who, in collaboration with SAMUEL SPROULE SAMUEL SPROULE , submitted an entry in the Royal Exchange Competition of 1769 which was judged one of the three best Irish designs?(23) The Christopher Myers who won the second premium in the Ringsend Bridge competition in 1787 is probably more likely to have been Christopher Myers [2].(24)

Addresses:(25) Castle Street, Lisburn, 1765;  Grafton Street, Dublin,1768-74; 109 Grafton Street, 1775-81; Monkstown at time of death.(26)

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References

This entry has been superseded by Frederick O'Dwyer's paper 'In search of Christopher Myers' in Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill, eds., Studies in the Gothic Revival (Dublin, 2008), 51-111.   Information not otherwise attributed is from this account.


(1)
JHCI 6, ccccxiii (6 May 1760), cited by C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of County Antrim (1996), 100; see also Ruth Delany, A Celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways (1988), 19,22.
(2)
Freeman's Journal, 5-7 Jun 1770; Myers rebuilt the Earl of Drogheda's country seat, Moore Abbey, Co. Kildare, but O'Dwyer (op. cit., above, 61) argues that the house in question was more probably Belvoir Park, Viscount Dungannon's seat in Co. Down..
(3)
Brett, loc. cit., above.
(4)
See note 1, above. Apparently Myers was in Whitehaven in 1758, when Hugh Boyd invited him to  Ballycastle, see O'Dwyer , op. cit., above, 73.
(5)
F. O'Dwyer, 'Making connections in Georgian Ireland', BIGS 38 (1996-97), 14.
(6)
See note 1, above.
(7)
Jones, transcript of what appears to be a near-contemporary account of Myers's connection with the Newry and Coalisland canals, source not given but possibly the pamphlet, A True Account of the Canal between Lough Neagh and Newry (1773); Ruth Delany, op. cit., above, 29, describes Myers's role simply as that of 'a young assistant engineer' under the direction of Thomas Omer.
(8)
JHCI 7, clxxix, also JHCI 8, ccxliv.((IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc. 2008/44)
(9)
Drogheda Corporation Book, 9,23 Aug 1765 (microfilm in NLI).(IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc. 2008/44)
(10)
Belfast Newsletter, 9 Apr 1865 (www.ucs.louisiana.edu).
(11)
H.F. Berry, A History of the Royal Dublin Society (1915), 89-91; for further information about the development on this site, see O'Dwyer (1996-97), above, 14-15; see also Royal Dublin Society Proceedings, 23 Jan,16 Feb,4 Dec 1766, and 2 Apr,18 Jun,2 Jul,29 Oct,3 Dec 1767 (information from Kenneth Severens).
(12)
Freeman's Journal, 21-24 Jun 1766; Edward McParland files (IAA, Acc.2008/44) cite various references re Myers's barracks work, viz.:JHCI 8, cclxxxvi, ccccxlvii; NLI MS 655; NA/PRO (Kew) MPF 316,317. According to James Douet, British Barracks 1600-1914 (1998), 34, he was replaced by William Gibson in 1776; however F. O'Dwyer, 'Building empires: architecture, politics and the Board of Works 1760-1860', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 5 (2002), 131, states that he shared the post with Graham Myers from 1777 to 1783 and was succeeded by Gibson in 1784.
(13)
Nos. 77-80: designs for a Gothic lodge, a modern lodge, a farm house and a banqueting house.
(14)
TCD Minutes, 4 Mar 1775 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc. 2008/44); see also O'Dwyer (2002),  132.
(15)
See John Harris, William Chambers (1970), 96,206.
(16)
Notices of CM's death in Dublin Chronicle, 4 Jul 1789 (information from Kenneth Severens); Belfast Newsletter, 17-21 Jul1789 (www.ucs.louisiana.edu).
(17)
Records of Holy Trinity church, Whitehaven, Cumberland (information from www.familysearch.org, courtesy of F. O'Dwyer.)
(18)
John D'Alton, The History of the County of Dublin (Dublin, 1838).
(19)
Information on Graham, Christopher [2] and Randal Myers from memorial of an indented release, 3 Jun 1780, in Registry of Deeds 336/91/223915 (information from Kenneth Severens).   Two sons were in the Army;  one of them, Lieut.Col. Myers, was 'a distinguished officer, who was created a baronet,and died at Myersville, now Wynberg, in 1789'.(H.F. Berry, A History of the Royal Dublin Society (1915), 90n1).
(20)
O'Dwyer (2008),105. Who, then, was the Miss Myers of Grafton Street who married Foyet, perfumer, of Henry Street in 1768 (Freeman's Journal, 22-26 Mar 1768)?
(21)
TCD Minutes, 11 Jul 1789 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc. 2008/44).
(22)
Arthur Vicars, Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland 1536-1810 (1897), 344.
(23)
Freeman's Journal, 14-18 Mar 1769.
(24)
Freeman's Journal, 26 May 1787.
(25)
From Wilson's Dublin Directory unless otherwise indicated.
(26) Belfast Newsletter, 12 Feb 1765  (www.ucs.louisiana.edu). (
(27)
See note 16, above.


30 work entries listed in chronological order for MYERS, CHRISTOPHER [1]


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Building: ENGLAND, WHITEHAVEN (CUMBERLAND), ST JAMES'S CHURCH
Date:
Nature: Attribution to CM proposed by O'Dwyer.
Refs: Frederick O'Dwyer, 'Robert West, Christopher Myers and St James's church, Whitehaven', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 12 (2009), 16-17.

Building: CO. ANTRIM, BALLYCASTLE, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI)
Date: 1752-186
Nature: 'A handsome church, in the Grecian style of architecture, with a lofty octagonal spire, was erected in 1756, at the sole expense of H. Boyd, Esq.: the Stone for building it was procured from the quarries in the parish, which were then worked on that gentleman's estate.'  Built as chapel-of-ease for Boyd family. Cost: £2769.4s.7½d.  Attribution to CM proposed by O'Dwyer but questioned by Brett.
Refs: S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 128;  Frederick O'Dwyer, 'In search of Christopher Myers' in Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill, eds., Studies in the Gothic Revival (Dublin, 2008),71-72(illus.);  C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of County Antrim (UAHS, 1996), 31(illus.);  exterior also illus in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 228.

Building: CO. DOWN, BELVOIR PARK (NEWTOWNBREDA)
Date: 1755
Nature: Enlargement of house by addition of new mansion to N gable of old house attr. to CM by O'Dwyer.   For Arthur Hill (later Viscount Dungannon).
Refs: Frederick O'Dwyer, 'In search of Christopher Myers' in Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill, eds., Studies in the Gothic Revival (Dublin, 2008), 61,76-80.(illus.);  Frederick O'Dwyer, 'Robert West, Chirstopher Myers and St James's church, Whitehaven', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 12 (2009),19-22.

Building: CO. ANTRIM, GLENARM CASTLE
Date: 1756
Nature: Rebuilt, for Alexander, 5th Earl of Antrim.
Refs: Freeman's Journal 5-7 Jun 1770; C.E.B. Brett, Glens of Antrim (UAHS, 1971), 11,12(illus.);  Frederick O'Dwyer, 'In search of Christopher Myers' in Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill, eds., Studies in the Gothic Revival (Dublin, 2008),66-69.

Building: CO. DOWN, HILLSBOROUGH, HILLSBOROUGH FORT
Date: 1758p
Nature: CM involved in works at same.  Design attr. to CM by O'Dwyer. For Wills Hill, 1st Earl of Hillsborough.
Refs: Frederick O'Dwyer, 'In search of Christopher Myers' in Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill, eds., Studies in the Gothic Revival (Dublin, 2008),83-87(illus.)

Building: CO. ANTRIM, BALLYCASTLE, HARBOUR
Date: 1760
Nature: CM paid for work at same.
Refs: JHCI 6, ccccxiii (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Building: CO. CORK, BLARNEY CASTLE
Date: 1760s
Nature: Attribution of Gothicization to CM suggested by O'Dwyer.  For James St John Jefferyes.
Refs: Frederick O'Dwyer, 'In search of Christopher Myers' in Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill, eds., Studies in the Gothic Revival (Dublin, 2008),87-89(illus.)

Building: CO. ARMAGH, PORTADOWN, BRIDGE OVER RIVER BANN
Date: 1761-64
Nature: New 7-arched masonry bridge, replacing existing timber bridge.
Refs: Frederick O'Dwyer, 'In search of Christopher Myers' in Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill, eds., Studies in the Gothic Revival (Dublin, 2008), 91;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 508.

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION STREET UPPER, NO. 024 (MORNINGTON HOUSE)
Date: 1762
Nature: O'Dwyer suggests that this house, built for 1st Earl of Mornington on site leased by Earl of Antrim, was designed by CM.
Refs: F. O'Dwyer, 'Making connections in Georgian Ireland', BIGS 38 (1996-97), 15;  Frederick O'Dwyer, 'In search of Christopher Myers' in Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill, eds., Studies in the Gothic Revival (Dublin, 2008), 94-95;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 591-2. .

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GRAFTON STREET, NO. 112-113 (NAVIGATION BOARD OR DUBLIN SOCIETY)
Date: 1766-67
Nature: New development on 'ground formerly occupied by Earl of Mornington...opposite the house of the Provost of Trinity College'. Payment of £2200 to Myers by Dublin Society, with additional £375.16s.3d for drawing academies at rear.
Refs: Royal Dublin Society proceedings, 23 Jan,16 Feb,4 Dec 1766, and 2 Apr,18 Jun,2 Jul,29 Oct,3 Dec 1767 (information from Kenneth Severens); H.F. Berry, A History of the Royal Dublin Society (1915), 89-91(illus.); F. O'Dwyer, 'Making connections in Georgian Ireland', BIGS 38 (1996-97), 14-15;  Frederick O'Dwyer, 'In search of Christopher Myers' in Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill, eds., Studies in the Gothic Revival (Dublin, 2008), 94-98.

Building: CO. KILDARE, MOORE ABBEY (MONASTEREVIN)
Date: 1767
Nature: Gothic rebuilding, for 6th Earl of Drogheda, who 'in 1767, beautifully repaired the ancient abbey by enlarging the windows, placing a new roof, and recompartitioning the whole; preserving however the external walls and original form, except somewhat lenghtening the eastern front' (|Anthol.Hib.|)
Refs: Payments, c. 1769, recorded in NLI MS 9748 (E.McP files); Freeman's Journal, 4-7 Jun 1770; Anthologia Hibernica III, Feb 1794, 113-114; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 210(illus.); Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 113 (pl.42);  Frederick O'Dwyer, 'In search of Christopher Myers' in Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill, eds., Studies in the Gothic Revival (Dublin, 2008),98-103(illus.).

Building: CO. KILDARE, MONASTEREVIN, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1767?-1772
Nature: 'His Lordship [Charles, 6th Earl of Drogheda]... pulled down the old Church, which stood near the monastery, on the right of the east front; and rebuilt it in a neat gothic style at the other end of the town.'(Anthol. Hib.). Described as 'modern built with steeple' in Traveller's New Guide (cf. Lewis who describes it as 'a venerable structure with a square tower').  Attr. to CM by O'Dwyer.
Refs: Anthologia Hibernica III, Feb 1794, 114; The Traveller’s new guide through Ireland (1815), 118;  Frederick O'Dwyer, 'In search of Christopher Myers' in Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill, eds., Studies in the Gothic Revival (Dublin, 2008), 104-5(illus.);  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 325. 

Building: CO. KILDARE, MONASTEREVIN, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1767?-1772
Nature: 'His Lordship [Charles, 6th Earl of Drogheda]... pulled down the old Church, which stood near the monastery, on the right of the east front; and rebuilt it in a neat gothic style at the other end of the town.'(Anthol. Hib.). Described as 'modern built with steeple' in Traveller's New Guide (cf. Lewis who describes it as 'a venerable structure with a square tower').  Attr. to CM by O'Dwyer.
Refs: Anthologia Hibernica III, Feb 1794, 114; The Traveller’s new guide through Ireland (1815), 118;  Frederick O'Dwyer, 'In search of Christopher Myers' in Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill, eds., Studies in the Gothic Revival (Dublin, 2008), 104-5(illus.);  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 325. 

Building: CO. KILDARE, MONASTEREVIN, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1767?-1772
Nature: 'His Lordship [Charles, 6th Earl of Drogheda]... pulled down the old Church, which stood near the monastery, on the right of the east front; and rebuilt it in a neat gothic style at the other end of the town.'(Anthol. Hib.). Described as 'modern built with steeple' in Traveller's New Guide (cf. Lewis who describes it as 'a venerable structure with a square tower').  Attr. to CM by O'Dwyer.
Refs: Anthologia Hibernica III, Feb 1794, 114; The Traveller’s new guide through Ireland (1815), 118;  Frederick O'Dwyer, 'In search of Christopher Myers' in Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill, eds., Studies in the Gothic Revival (Dublin, 2008), 104-5(illus.);  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 325. 

Building: CO. KILDARE, MONASTEREVIN, CHURCH OF ST JOHN (CI)
Date: 1767?-1772
Nature: 'His Lordship [Charles, 6th Earl of Drogheda]... pulled down the old Church, which stood near the monastery, on the right of the east front; and rebuilt it in a neat gothic style at the other end of the town.'(Anthol. Hib.). Described as 'modern built with steeple' in Traveller's New Guide (cf. Lewis who describes it as 'a venerable structure with a square tower').  Attr. to CM by O'Dwyer.
Refs: Anthologia Hibernica III, Feb 1794, 114; The Traveller’s new guide through Ireland (1815), 118;  Frederick O'Dwyer, 'In search of Christopher Myers' in Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill, eds., Studies in the Gothic Revival (Dublin, 2008), 104-5(illus.);  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 325. 

Building: CO. ANTRIM, GLENARM, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (CI, TICKMACREVAN PARISH)
Date: 1768
Nature: 'The church, which occupies the site of an ancient monastery, close to the shore near the town, was built in 1768, at the expense of the noble family of McDonnell, and was enlarged in 1822, by a loan of £500 from the late Board of First Fruits: it is a plain building with a tower and spire.'  Attribution to CM proposed by O'Dwyer. For Alexander MacDonnell, 5th Earl of Antrim.
Refs: S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 624;  Frederick O'Dwyer', 'In search of Christopher Myers' in Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill, eds., Studies in the Gothic Revival (Dublin, 2008), 69-70;  Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 214(illus.).

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CORK HILL, ROYAL EXCHANGE
Date: 1768-69
Nature: 'Myers & Sproule' competition entrants. (Perhaps Graham Myers)
Refs: B 27, 2 Oct 1869, 781.

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GRAFTON STREET, HOUSES
Date: 1768ca
Nature: 'In addition to the two office buildings [for Inland Navigation Commissioners and Dublin Society] he constructed seven houses on Grafton Street, taking for himself the southernmost [No. 107], on the Suffolk Street corner.'
Refs: Frederick O'Dwyer, 'In search of Christopher Myers' in Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill, eds., Studies in the Gothic Revival (Dublin, 2008), 97;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 525.

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WELLINGTON QUAY, CUSTOM HOUSE (PROPOSED)
Date: 1771-72
Nature: Proposed new custom house.
Refs: NA/PRO Cust 1.116 & 1.120 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); E. McParland, James Gandon (1985), 42

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WELLINGTON QUAY, CUSTOM HOUSE (OLD)
Date: 1771;1774
Nature: CM to direct repairs, 1771; reports on condition of building to House of Commons, 1774
Refs: NA/PRO (Kew) Cust 1.117 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); JHCI 9, cccviii (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, PROVOST'S HOUSE
Date: 1775
Nature: Doubling in depth of N pavilion, for Provost John Hely Hutchinson
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 393n.

Building: CO. ANTRIM, CARRICKFERGUS, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS (CI)
Date: 1778
Nature: Tower and spire erected. Cost £500.  Attr. to CM by O'Dwyer.
Refs: G.N. Wright, Tours in Ireland (1823), ?;  Samuel McSkimin, The history and antiquities of the county of the town of Carrickfergus, from the earliest records till 1839 : also a statistical survey of said county (New ed., 1909), 371;  JRSAI 35 (1905), 317;  Frederick O'Dwyer, 'In search of Christopher Myers' in Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill, eds., Studies in the Gothic Revival (Dublin, 2008), 105(illus.).

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, THEATRE (EXAMINATION HALL)
Date: 1779ca
Nature: CM executant architect for Chamber's designs for theatre and chapel (completed after his death under supervision of Graham Myers)
Refs: Trinity College muniments, MUN/P/2/145/16,17Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/128 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); John Harris, Sir William Chambers (London, 1970), 95-6,206, Pl. 151;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),396-398.

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, CHAPEL (1787)
Date: 1779ca
Nature: CM executant architect for Chamber's designs for chapel (completed after his death under supervision of Graham Myers).
Refs: Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/128 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44);  James Malton, A Picturesque and descriptive view of the city of Dublin (1799), unpaginated;  John Harris, Sir William Chambers (London, 1970), 95-6,206, Pl. 151;    Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),396-398.

Building: CO. WESTMEATH, TULLYNALLY
Date: 1780ca
Nature: Accounts record improvements to house carried out by 'Mr Myers' (i.e. Christopher, senior?)
Refs: Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 525

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RINGSEND BRIDGE
Date: 1787
Nature: Christopher Myers wins second prize in competition. (This could by CM[2])
Refs: Freeman's Journal, 26 May 1787 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BENBURB STREET, COLLINS BARRACKS (FORMERLY ROYAL BARRACKS)
Date: ?
Nature: Work on Palatine Sq.
Refs: JHCI 7, ccccxlvii (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Building: CO. WESTMEATH, BALLINLOUGH CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: CM 'connected with Ballinlough'.
Refs: 'Ballinlough notebook of visit' (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Building: CO. FERMANAGH, FLORENCECOURT
Date: ?
Nature: Possible connection with CM.
Refs: E.McP files, citing 'Ballinlough notebook of visit'

Building: CO. DOWN, CASTLE WARD
Date: ?
Nature: Possible connection with CM.
Refs: 'Ballinlough notebook of visit' (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)