Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILKENNY, CASTLECOMER, INFANTRY BARRACKS

Name: DAVIS, WHITMORE [2]
Building: CO. KILKENNY, CASTLECOMER, INFANTRY BARRACKS
Date: 1801-2
Nature: 'Mr Whitmore Davis, the architect, employed in building the new  barracks at Castlecomer' (Tighe). Barracks described in report of 12 Nov 1801 as 'building and in such a state of forwardness that it may be expected to be fit to inhabit in about ten months';  plan 'appears an approved good one'.
Refs: NA (Kew) PRO HO 100/108/72;  William Tighe, Statistical Observations relative to the County of Kilkenny (1802), 57.