Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Fibrous plasterer, of Dublin, active in the second decade of the twentieth century.  Michael Creedon may perhaps be identified as the twenty-year-old, Kerry-born Michal Creedon, plasterer, who is recorded in the 1901 census as living in lodgings in Albert Place West, Dublin, in 1901.  Living in the same lodgings was a sixty-year old plasterer named Cornelius Creedon, likewise Kerry born, possibly his father.  Michael Creedon built up a successful business in fibrous plasterwork in Clare Lane, Dublin, which is th eubject of approving comment in the Irish Times of 15 November 1917.  According to this source, Creedon's employees were all Irish;  examples of the firm's work were to be seen in the ceiling of the entrance hall of the National University of Ireland, 'some Dublin picture houses; Castleknock College; where a Corinthian style, seventy or eighty years old, has been followed; the memorial hall, Blackrock College; and Georgian wall panelling for Sir John Keane at Cappoquin' .