Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LIMERICK, NEWCASTLE WEST, PUBLIC LIBRARY

Name: LEAHY, JAMES D.
Building: CO. LIMERICK, NEWCASTLE WEST, PUBLIC LIBRARY
Date: 1915-16
Nature: New Carnegie Library designed by JDL with R.C. Orpen. Opened 13 Nov 1916.  Destroyed by fire, 1920.
Refs: IB 57, 23 Oct 1915, 472; 58, 26 Feb 1916, 103;  Irish Times, 4 Mar 1916;  Irish Times, 16 Nov 1922.; Brendan Grimes, Irish Carnegie Libraries: a catalogue and architectural history (1998), 207-209(illus.)

Name: ORPEN, RICHARD FRANCIS CAULFEILD
Building: CO. LIMERICK, NEWCASTLE WEST, PUBLIC LIBRARY
Date: 1915-16
Nature: New Carnegie Library designed by RCO with J.D. Leahy. Opened 13 Nov 1916. Destroyed by fire, 1920.
Refs: Brendan Grimes, Irish Carnegie Libraries: a catalogue and architectural history (1998), 207-209(illus.);  Irish Times, 16 Nov 1922.