Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, FAIRYHOUSE, RACECOURSE

Name: MITCHELL, WILLIAM MANSFIELD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, FAIRYHOUSE, RACECOURSE
Date: 1890
Nature: New grandstand to accommodate about 1,800 spectators. Brick-faced with iron roof and iron supporting pillars in front.   Length 145 ft, breadth, 36 ft., height, 30 ft. Divided into 11 bays. To be opened Easter Monday 1890. Contractor:  M. Meade & Son, Great Brunswick St.
Refs: Irish Times, 5 Apr 1890; Sporting News, 5 Apr 1890;  design exh. RHA 1891, no. 497; IB 33, 1 Dec 1891, 269(illus.),275

Name: MITCHELL, W. M., & SONS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, FAIRYHOUSE, RACECOURSE
Date: 1908-09
Nature: New stand for Stewards of Ward Union Hunt. Contractor: H. & J. Martin.
Refs: Drawings &c., 1908, in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, 79/17, Bin VI, Roll 25(a); design exh. RHA 1909, no. 277; IB 50, 19 Sep 1908, 579; 51, 3 Apr 1909, 209,218(illus.)

Name: MCNAMARA, CHARLES GERALD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, FAIRYHOUSE, RACECOURSE
Date: 1946
Nature: New grandstand.
Refs: Candidate's circular for transfer to membership of Insitution of Civil Engineers, 1947 (information from Mrs Carol Morgan, Archivist to the Institution)