Board of Works - Office of Public Works

Board of Works 

Calendar of papers in National Archives 1848-1935 

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Box 1 

OPW5/27737/48-10270/51 

(a) 5140/49-30135/49 

- staff appointments around Ireland 

- proposed alterations to roof of Cork asylum 

- Newry navigation loan memorial petition 

30527/49 problems with the chimneys in Cork asylum 

33263/49 reservoir for Cork asylum & original plans for Cork asylum 

37580/49 large file of papers relating to Cork asylum 

39409/49 salaries of officers on relief service, 1847-1849 

(f) 9784/50 – 29427/50 

1850? various completed land improvement forms 

1850? compensation for victim of accident on Kilmore pier 

1850? papers on Cork asylum 

1850? fisheries problem: weir in Wexford 

1850? stores aboard the ‘Wolf’ (Kingstown harbour) 

1850? recommendation for employment from James Redmond Barry (IG Fisheries) 

(g) – large file: numerous copies of Drainage Assents 

Box 2 

OPW5/471/50 – 17145/51 

(a) – 688/51 – 1660/51 

688/51 drainage of lands around Military School, Phoenix Park 

1660/51 Phoenix Park constabulary hospital (nice plans) 

(Box 2 ctd) 

(b) 471/50 – 2601/50 

471/50 drainage of lands in Phoenix Park 

1850? Quit Rent Office: balance of accounts, Phoenix Park 

1850? Observations on experiment in drainage, Phoenix Park 

1850? Expenses, Phoenix Park 

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(c.) 30337/50 – 38760/50 

1850? package of documents on drainage of Rinn & Blackwater (correspondence with 

Lord Clements, mostly) 

1850? objection by Sir R O’Donel to local drainage, Mayo 

1850? Cork asylum 

1850? Fergus drainage 

1850? Raheny 

485/51 Quit Rent Office: file on Curragh of Kildare, 1847-51 (relates to proposed railway 

siding stand, includes plans and contracts with Great Southern and Western 

Railway) 

1673/51 Office of Woods and Forests: correspondence relating to Phoenix Park 

(threats to Keepers etc) 

11917/51 Correspondence re Wottonstown drainage district (R Manning district 

engineer) 

14373/51 fitments at Cork asylum 

15865/51 snag list etc, Cork asylum, May-July 1851 

17145/51 finishing floors of rooms in Cork asylum, June 1851 

(j) 3738/51 – 11720/51 

3738/51 improvements at Ballinasloe asylum, Jan 1851 

1851? Shannon navigation: ferry at Shannon harbour 

1851? Water pipes, Cork asylum, early 1851 

1851? Pipe water company and Cork asylum, mid-1851 

1851? Supplies of material, expenditure, Cork asylum, mid-1851 

14587/51 Kilbeggan drainage district: various papers, mostly forms (large report on 

mill-power, diagrams, supplementary report, analysis) 

Box 3 

OPW5/17565/51 – 24005/51 

17565/51 Camoge drainage (correspondence & assents) 

18557/51 report on Glyde drainage (espec Annagassen mills, by Robert Manning ce) 

21482/51 – 22878/51 bell hangings in Cork asylum 

23101/51 packet of standard memorials from around Ireland applied under Piers & 

Harbours Act of 1846 

24005/51 repairs to roads, construction of new roads (large file, 1845-48) 

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Box 4 

OPW5/24194/51 – 24195/51 

24195/51 (part 1) Maghera drainage district (Down) (assents, correspondence, 

mostly forms, 1849-51) 

24195/51 (part 2) Maghera drainage district (Down) (supplementary works to 

complete drainage, useful material on meetings, reports etc, 1851-52) 

Box 5 

OPW5/24196/51 – 24794/51 

24196/51 (part 1) Ferbane drainage district (Brosna river, numerous assent forms, 

some correspondence) 

24196/51 (part 2) Brosna river (assents of small tenants, supplementary report on 

drainage works, costings, assessment of eel weirs, 1851) 

(c.) (part 1) Brosna drainage (official forms, supplementary report 1851) 

(Box 5 ctd) 

24194/51 (part 2) Brosna drainage (correspondence & final notices, 1846-47) 

24794/51 Drumcliff drainage (Sligo) (forms, progress inspections, correspondence, 

1846-51) 

25277/51 – 26148/51 sewers etc, Cork asylum (nice sketches, plans) 

Box 6 

OPW5/27373/51 – 32018/51 

27373/51 reconstruction of county bridges, Meath and elsewhere (detailed costings, 

drawings, 1851) 

1851? Boyne railway viaduct and Boyne navigation (large correspondence) 

1851? Dredging Drogheda harbour 

28070/51 River Fane drainage (objections, forms, supplementary report, costings: 

1846-51) 

29765/51 pointing the south front of Cork asylum, Sept 1851 

30335/51 baths, lavatories etc, Cork asylum 

30129/51 Rinn & Blackwater drainage district (some correspondence, mostly assent 

forms) 

31206/51 accommodation bridges, Monivea drainage district, Galway, 1851 

32018/51 Glenariff drainage district (Antrim) (some correspondence, forms, some 

interesting material, 1849-51) 

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Box 7 

OPW5/32273/51 – 36020/51 

(a) 32273/51 (part 1) 

1851? Ballycasey drainage district (Borrisokane) (objections to awards, 1851) 

1851? enclosure (in envelope): order books for Maynooth College (old relief books 

used) (ie details of specifications for the building works, ie no. panes of glass, window 

catches etc.) 

(b) 32273/51 (part 2) 

letters on the Tyrone & Shannon navigations, 1851 

- schedule of rents and charges in Incumbered Estates Court rental, July 1 st 1851 

- Assents for various drainage districts 

- Copy of Dublin Gazette 11 th Sept 1846 

- Kilbeggan drainage district (supp report, accounts of expenditure) 

- Drainage: summary proceedings forms 

35216/51 – 35774/51 Cork asylum: correspondence respecting kitchens, offices, sewers, 

railway cutting on site 

32961/51 Cork asylum: drains, sewers, airing sheds, 1851 

34319/51 Keenagh arterial drainage scheme (specifications for bridges, estimates, 

1851) 

(f) 36020/51 

- Annagh drainage district, 1851 (forms, supp report, correspondence) 

Box 8 

38629/51 – 12186/52 

(a) 2644/52 – 12186/52 

1852? Cork asylum: purchase of land for road on site, 1851-52 

1852? Constabulary barrack, Phoenix Park, Oct 1852 

1852? Tyrone navigation: objections to terms of leases granted by BOW, March 1852 

1852? Fire escape for Vice-Regal lodge, April 1852 

1852? Report by Robert Manning on drainage of Glyde & Dee, Jan-March 1852 

1852? Report by inspector under Landed Property Improvement legislation (Dillon 

estate, Mayo, 1849-52) 

1852? Report on Tramore embankment, 1852 

1852? Boundary wall, Dundrum Criminal lunatic asylum 

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1852? Finds given to Geological Office from drainage schemes, April 1852 

1852? Loans for road improvements – Wicklow, Limerick city, Wexford, Galway: 1852 

1852? Shannon navigation: sum given to labourer to assist in emigration, 1852 

1852? Memorial seeking employment as lock-keeper, Annaghbeg station, April 1852 

(Box 8 ctd) 

(a1) 11291/52 

1852? row over chair taken from Comptroller’s office, Dublin Castle, 1852 

1852? complaint re damage done in drainage operations, Wexford lough, 1852 

1852? complaint of Mayo miller re effect of drainage scheme on water-power 

1852? putting up coat of arms of Lord Eglinton in Castle chapel, May 1852 

1852? problems in Irish salmon fisheries, 1852 

1852? Limerick Harbour: dues on Greek vessel, 1852 

1852? Dispute over BOW rent of house in Palace Street, 1852 

(a2) 12011/52 

1852? inquiry into loss of key of beer cellar in Dublin Castle 

1852? memorial of man injured in works on Coolany River, 1851-52 

1852? detailed report on Ballinamore & Ballyconnell drainage, May 1852 

38629/51 (part 1) Shannon navigation files (forms, boat registration, cases, queries) 

38629/51 (part 2) Shannon navigation (mostly standard query files to lock-keepers 

etc, one completed query from Capt Hutchinson, harbour-master Kingstown) 

39457/51 correspondence respecting gas fittings, Cork asylum, 1851-1852 

12253/52 Castlebellingham drainage scheme, elk antlers found in 1852 

17871/52 Lough Corrib drainage, prevention of injury to private property, 1852 

Box 9 

OPW5/22320/52 – 29126/52 

(a) 27485/52 – 29085/52 

1852? finishing off works at Cork asylum, 1852 

1852? proposed new road to Cork asylum to be abandoned, 1852 

1852? wall around Mountjoy female convict prison to cost £1500 

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23814/52 ecclesiastical fitments to chapel in Cork asylum, 1852 

26917/52 application for public works loan: steam mill for finishing linen cloth, 

1852 

27289/52 tenders, specifications, reports on bridges to be built in Longford/Leitrim 

drainage scheme. 

(box 9 ctd) 

2230/52 loose forms for drainage projects (summary proceedings, standard 

objections by landholders) 

29126/52 correspondence on construction of Queens Colleges Belfast, Galway, Cork 

(mostly Galway, re bankruptcy of contractor, estimates, plans etc) 

Box 10 

29253/52 – 30986/52 

29253/52 compensation for injury to mason on Longford drainage works 

29373/52 proposal to repair harbour tools, Howth, Dec 1852 

29858/52 recovery of boats sunk in Lough Derg (enclosed are tracings of Lough 

Neagh bridges) 

29871/52 accident on Balla drainage 

29988/52 dredging in course of drainage project 

30086/52 impassable road beside Limerick canal 

30341/52 accounts of contractor in Cork asylum 

30656/52 deficiences of completed works, Cork asylum, penetration of rain, damp 

etc 

30837/52 large file: returns of coastguard prosecution of fishermen for illegal 

trawling by district, three year period, 1849-52. 

30889/52 Skerries harbour, appeal of fishermen against fine, Dec 1852 

30986/52 statement of duties in secretary’s dept and registry dept, Board of Works, 

1848-52 

Box 11 

OPW5/1108/53 – 26472/53 

1108/53 draft award of arbitrator, projected extension of Dundalk-Enniskillen 

Railway Co., 1853 

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3049/53 shopkeeper seeking compensation after business affected by drainage of 

Ballinamore area, Jan 1853 

5212/53 Waterford & Kilkenny Railway 

6275/53 furniture and chairs etc, Cork asylum 

6710/53 buckets & hoses, Cork asylum 

7139/53 Cork asylum, alterations required by guardians, 1852-53 

10058/53 report on land improvement, Mount Eagle estate, Kerry, April 1853 

11548/53 Cork asylum, dry rot in floors etc 

10257/53 bridge on Longford drainage 

12155/53 land improvement reports (Scutch mill, Cork) 

Encumbered Estate Court sale (Blayney estate): charges on land to Board 

of Works 

13963/53 arbitration award by Joseph Fishbourne, in respect of purchase of land for 

Great Southern & Western railway 

14101/53 complaint of Lord Lorton respecting navigation works, Ballinamore- 

Ballyconnell canal, June 1853 

17425/53 compensation for injury to lands, Ballinamore-Ballyconnell canal, 1853 

18421/53 corrections to work contracted for, Cork asylum 

23084/53 tenders for heating rooms in Royal Irish Academy 

26472/53 proposed rainwater tank at Cork asylum 

Box 12 

340/54 – 19331/54 

340/54 dealing with open sewer near Vice-Regal lodge, Feb 1854 

684/54 examination of proposal by Dundalk-Enniskillen Railway Co. 

797/54 Quit Rent Office: limits on expenditure in Phoenix Park, Feb 1854 

822/54 detailed information respecting parliamentary estimates for various areas 

of BOW responsibility (including Queen’s Colleges), 1854-55 

7340/54 queries to Board of Works from Shipping Dues Commission 

7550/54 Irish drainage districts, monthly progress reports, Feb 1854 

9669/54 Cork asylum: liquid manure pump (excellent drawings) 

15465/54 Cork asylum: alleged defect in building (excellent reports) 

17966/54 arbitration award (J Fishbourne) respecting land under claim by Great 

Southern & Western Railway 

19312/54 Cork asylum: entrance gate and porter’s lodge 

19331/54 arbitration awards drainage schemes, list of standing drainage committees 

by district, 1853-54 

2192/54 – 2504/54 monthly progress reports from Irish drainage districts, Jan 1854 

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Box 13 

21596/54 

bundle of completed forms used in administration of drainage projects (summary 

proceedings, assents etc, mostly respecting Fergus drainage) 

Box 14 

24985/54 – 5736/56 

744/54 – 769/54 Monthly progress reports, drainage districts, Ireland, Dec 1854 

1511/54 – 2224/54 reports on Lough Neagh & Lough Corrib drainage, Dec 1855 

1531/54 Phoenix Park 

21732/54 correspondence respecting Mullingar lunatic asylum (excellent sketches, 

plans: padded rooms) 

22165/54 Mullingar asylum: petition for compensation arising from loss of 

residence 

24985/54 construction of staircase, Cork asylum 

26159/54 bundle of forms from Encumbered Estates Court respecting loan charges 

of Board of Works 

516/55 Curragh of Kildare: proposed roads, compensation to landowners (large 

coloured map), 1855-64 

770/55 – 794/55 Monthly progress reports, drainage districts, Ireland, Dec 1854 

1328/55 report on Killarney lunatic asylum 

7247/55 Dublin district asylum – articles & fittings costed 

10693/55 House of Commons order respecting Cork lunatic asylum 

11528/55 monthly progress reports, drainage districts, Ireland, May 1855 

18695/55 observations on Cork asylum 

299/56 correspondence from clerk in Quit Rent Office seeking compensation 

from Office of Works and Buildings, Whitehall, for excessive duties, 

1855-56 

1433/56 expenditure on Phoenix Park, 1855-56 

2552/56 expenditure on Phoenix Park, 1856 

4827/56 claims of blacksmith for payment, August 1856 

5628/56 arbitration award respecting land required for Bagenalstown & Wexford 

Railway, Dec 1855 

5736/56 man seeking employment as bailiff in Phoenix Park, July 1856 

file from Box 18 misplaced 

2505/54 – 6236/54 mostly drainage progress reports around Ireland 

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3675/54 boat registration forms by Fishery Commissioners (Killala, 

Co Mayo) 

4913/54 annual drainage calculations 

5555/54 graph of variations in water levels: Rinn & Blackwater 

drainage, 1853-54 

6236/54 annual drainage report for 1853 (original draft, with text 

crossed out etc) 

Box 14a 

8673/56 – 20518/56 

8673/56 correspondence in case of railway arbitration, Midland & Great Western 

Railway, Longford & Cavan extension 

12002/56 arbitration award (Joseph Fishbourne), Limerick & Castleconnell Railway 

13142/56 arbitration award (J Fishbourne) in respect of land required by Roscrea & 

Parsonstown Railway Company 

14232/56 – 16973/56 additional accommodation for officer’s mess, Dublin Castle, Main 

Guard. 

14350/56 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, removal of cut stone 

14469/56 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, chapel visitation 

15032/56 People’s Park, Waterford – report on application for loan 

15168/56 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, regular inspection of buildings 

15751/56 Royal Hospital Kilmainham – Lord Seaton’s stables 

15896/56 petty theft in state apartments 

16366/56 expenses related to Dublin Exhibition of 1853 (fisheries) 

16973/56 increase of wages to labourer/porter Board of Works 

Box 15 

1268/57 – 30273/57 

1268/57 arbitration award respecting lands required by Bagenalstown & Wexford 

Railway (Joseph Fishbourne) 

1612/57 specification for works to be done in Richmond asylum 

1678/57 Maigue navigation: state of swivel bridge 

2697/57 Board of Works office arrangements: duties of architect, 1857 

2997/57 accident in St Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle 

3112/57 Treasury sanction for free advertisements by BOW in Dublin 

Gazette 

4190/57 appointments in Phoenix Park 

4356/57 Queen’s College Cork, fitments, library etc 

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4664/57 misc. returns, advances, repayments, remissions, Board of Works loan 

accounts, 1857 

5605/57 examination of plans of Limerick-Foynes Railway, April 1857 

6795/57 removal of barred windows on Constabulary Office, Dublin Castle, 

May 1857 

6974/57 sword of state and silver maces: Dublin Castle 

9185/57 note on Mullingar Asylum 

10811/57 improving approaches to Royal Hospital Kilmainham, July 1857 

10831/57 Richmond Asylum: estimate for works, works planned 

11027/57 valuation of property, Royal Hospital Kilmainham 

12129/57 plans for new gate lodge, Royal Hospital Kilmainham 

13003/57 right of passage dispute, lands of Limerick city canal 

13582/57 removal of assistant-lockkeeper, Killaloe, Shannon navigation. 

14288/57 erection of swivel bridge at Rooskey, Sept 1857 

13887/57 tender for supply of horses, gravel etc: expenditure in Phoenix Park 

14397/57 appointments on Shannon navigation, 1857 

14515/57 horses and carts for works in Phoenix Park, Sept 1857 

15430/57 expenditure on Richmond asylum sanctioned, 1857 

16248/57 service of rent increases on drained land, 1857 

16968/57 wall built at Royal Hibernian Military School 

17112/57 additions to Richmond Lunatic Asylum 

17551/57 Earl of Leitrim seeks compensation for loss of land in course of Rinn 

drainage 

18599/57 work on state apartments, Dublin Castle, Dec 1857 

19067/57 reports of flooding on Rinn & Blackwater drainage 

19286/57 Lough Allen railway sanctioned 

19375/57 specifications for Richmond Lunatic Asylum 

30273/57 Cork Asylum: more changes (1851) 

Box 16 

677/58 – 11454/58 

3056/58 lease of premises at Killaloe 

4147/58 Shannon: agreement to let lands at Meelick 

5074/58 renting house in Howth 

6119/58 Fergus drainage: complaint by miller about loss of water power 

6122/58 claim for surveying and valuation 

6142/58 land improvement – increased rents on land 

6695/58 Ballinasloe asylum: report on completion of works 

6184/58 land improvement: increased rent on parts of Lord Sligo estate, 

near Westport 

6186/58 Lough Oughter drainage, damage to farm near Belturbet 

6241/58 law case in respect of drainage charges 

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6606/58 loan repayments by Fermanagh Grand Jury 

6745/58 proposed national school in Antrim 

6747/58 application for loan by North Dublin Workhouse (proposed 

additions) 

6755/58 application for loan on behalf of Westport Harbour (refused) 

6791/58 offices (responsibilities) held contemporareously by Samuel Usher 

Roberts 

6914/58 law case involving Ballinamore district drainage and navigation 

7042/58 Shannon navigation: breaking chain of crane in Kilrush 

7043/58 renting out premises in Howth 

7123/58 repair to library in Four Courts 

7314/58 Shannon: dredging needed at Shannon Bridge 

7322/58 Lough Neagh drainage compensation claim 

7370/58 location for Curleghan national school, Tyrone 

7401/58 Longford drainage: claim in respect of damage to farm 

7406/58 fisheries bye-laws document (signed by inspectors & 

commissioners) 

7485/58 examination of plans for railway, Lough Oughter drainage 

7632/58 Tyrone navigation, reported failures in the infrastructure 

7633/58 Shannon navigation, Athlone, dredging at Shannon Bridge 

7632?/58 application for increased rent, land improvement, Kilbeggan. 

7782/58 Dunkellin drainage: arbitration awards 

7784/58 Longford drainage: loss of use of ground 

7932/58 drainage of Lough Mask and River Robe: compensation claims 

8126/58 contesting drainage loan charges on Kingston estate, now on sale in 

Encumbered Estates Court 

8326/58 breach of bye-laws by boat owner on Shannon navigation 

8385/58 inspection of Maigue Navigation, May 1858 

8415/58 printing of departmental reports and papers: Treasury circular 

8469/58 repairs to Westmoreland Lock Hospital, 1858 

8542/58 fencing on Rinn & Blackwater drainage works 

8608/58 Rinn & Blackwater drainage 

8642/58 Curlurgan national school, Cavan 

8690/58 Road loan debt: Limerick Grand Jury 

8774/58 maps defining mouths of rivers for purposes of fishery legislation 

8780/58 Fergus river drainage 

8853/58 Longford drainage works: accommodation bridge needed 

8799/58 permission to church to use quarry in Waterford 

8813/58 land improvement forms, estate of Lord Templemore 

8859/58 Boyne navigation: collector’s accounts 

8878/58 ventilation of George’s Street teacher training establishment 

9057/58 Shannon navigation: state of repair of embankments etc 

9145/58 works at Vice-Regal Lodge: racket court etc 

9156/58 Keenagh drainage: damage to demesne wall, Kingston estate 

9168/58 Rinn drainage: permission to use new canal 

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9195/58 Dunkellin drainage works: damage to mill-power 

9218/58 valuation carried out for Rinn & Blackwater drainage 

9290/58 arbitration award (Joseph Fishbourne) respecting land required by Great 

Southern & Western Railway (purchases, compensation etc) 

9306/58 estimated accommodation required for Richmond Surgical 

Hospital (House of Industry?) 

9307/58 schedules issued 

9309/58 sale of stores, Dublin Castle 

9311/58 application for job as surveyor in Board of Works 

9341/58 Galway Harbour: petition for reduction in shipping dues 

10758/58 complaints by landowners against drainage charges 

11454/58 Quoile drainage: specifications, tenders for works (Co Down), 1857-58 

Box 17 

11683/58 – 19614/58 

11683/58 weir at Islandbridge (cleaning, near Royal Hospital Kilmainham) 

12125/58 Shannon navigation, fine on boat 

13753/58 land improvement correspondence (Wexford) 

14791/58 Railway arbitration award in respect of land required by Tullamore- 

Athlone extension 

15601/58 construction of road, OPW plans and letter 

15604/58 OPW Registry: question of receipt of parliamentary indexes 

15608/58 Rinn Drainage: repairs to dredger 

15612/58 repairs to Mountcharles pier 

15614/58 vessels trawling outside legal limits, Malahide, Oct 1858 

15647/58 payment of arrears of old loans and new loan applications 

15648/58 prosecution of Malahide trawlers 

15656/58 supplementary drainage award, Lough Alick, Co Mayo (good 

correspondence) 

15660/58 addition to House of Industry 

16110/58 bedsteads for Richmond Asylum 

16434/58 bad state of national school in Meath 

16439/58 removal of locomotive engine from Athlone wharf 

16445/58 prosecution of fishermen trawling in Belfast Lough 

16462/58 Drainage controversy: landowners seeking copy of assessments 

16463/58 loan to Courtney Kenny of Ballinrobe paid off 

16464/58 land improvement – a loan account 

16469/58 conveyance of land to Board of Works 

16474/58 work of carpenter at Queens College Galway 

16483/58 Cavan drainage scheme, fence needed 

16484/58 complaint against overseer on Lough Gowna drainage 

16486/58 effect of recent floods on Mayo/Galway drainage, Nov 1858 

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16487/58 drainage near Lismore, Co Waterford, payment of loans by Grand Jury 

16507/58 loan to Knox-Gore of Belleek Abbey (Mayo) 

16512/58 collector of tolls, Portumna Bridge 

16513/58 Portumna bridge: end of tolls 

16525/58 Sligo – proposed embankment 

16533/58 loss of use of eel weir due to drainage (good correspondence) 

16567/58 prosecution of Belfast fishermen 

16576/58 land improvement loan 

16579/58 BOW witnesses at Commission on Harbours of Refuge 

16600/58 note on meeting with Samuel Usher Roberts ce 

16602/58 exemptions from shipping dues, Limerick harbour 

16611/58 dirty nuisance, Ship St Guard House 

16639/58 Waterford river weirs 

16644/58 field drainage on estate in Tipperary 

16650/58 land improvement action, list of works (Tyrone) 

16697/58 Rinn & Blackwater drainage, claims for loss of eel weirs (good 

correspondence) 

16705/58 bad state of harbour road, Limerick (denied) 

16730/58 land improvement correspondence 

16728/58 land improvement correspondence 

16734/58 report on Ulster canal: surveyor seeks fees 

16782/58 repair of Post road 

16783/58 Royal Hibernian Military School: cleansing of quarry lake 

16789/58 Ballinamore canal plans 

16811/58 management of property on lease, Galway Harbour 

16828/58 query on mill race, Carlow 

16829/58 land improvement loan application (Clonakilty, Co Cork) 

16830/58 land property improvement: inspection (Co Dublin) 

16841/58 re illegal trawling 

16845/58 building at coastguard station, Dunmore East 

16848/58 detailed estimates for Queens University Belfast, 1859-60 

16856/58 specification for building playground, Slane national school, Meath and 

execution of works (excellent drawing) 

16872/58 tenants on embankment, Cork 

16875/58 memo for police to aid in prosecution of breaches of inland fishery laws 

16882/58 Fergus drainage, completion of works 

16893/58 suggestions for list of estimated works, Office of Yarn Department, 1859- 

60 

16904/58 exhibition of plans for Derry Model School 

16911/58 Drogheda collector of shipping dues, superannuation 

16938/58 levy of money in Lough Neagh drainage, corrupt landowner 

16966/58 River Shannon, query as to whether it was a ‘royal’ or open river 

16982/58 prosecution of fishermen at Skibbereen 

16986/58 land improvement inspection form (Co Cork estate) 

17005/58 Shannon: illegal fixing of nets and catching eels 

17007/58 estimates for Dublin Castle 

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17041/58 compensation claim, Lough Neagh drainage 

17046/58 land improvement letter 



17052/58 letter on drainage and land improvement 

17061/58 work on national school incomplete 

17067/58 Trustees Kilbeggan drainage 

17079/58 Shannon: backing needed to support weir wall at Tarmonbarry 

17082/58 responsibility for coastguards switched from Customs to Admiralty 

17084/58 list of estimated works for Private Secretary’s Lodge, Phoenix Park 

17087/58 receipt of title deed 

17088/58 letter discussing field inspection in land improvement 

17095/58 re salmon close season 

17097/58 landed property improvement inspection form (Westmeath) 

17098/58 embankment at Wexford harbour (public works loan) 

17116/58 enclosure by Robert Manning of hydraulic tables 

17122/58 examination of coastguard cottages, Whiting Bay, Co Cork 

17128/58 charges on land, Lough Neagh drainage district 

17140/58 Oyster fisheries: new circular on transmission of oyster brood during close 

season 

17144/58 land improvement: progress inspection application (Wexford) 

17145/58 land improvement: progress inspection application (Meath) 

17146/58 estimates for farm buildings due to be built 

17148/58 Rinn & Blackwater drainage; problems over eel weirs 

17151/58 rent payable to Board of Works on lands sold in Encumbered Estates 

Court, Henrietta St 

17158/58 Ballinahinch fishery: appointment of water bailiffs, Nov 1858 

17167/58 letter on drainage from Treasury 

17170/58 new female prison, Mountjoy: must stop prisoners talking to each other in 

cells 

17174/58 Cork Custom House, lead stolen from roof 

no number Ulster Railway Company; enlargement of Belfast station 

17176/58 need to get proprietor of building beside Waterford Custom House to 

remove faulty drainpipe 

17182/58 to hand in title deeds 

17185/58 education agent (national school) spends money without OPW sanction 

17186/58 drainage expenditure 

17187/58 loan to landowner (Hackett of Roscommon) 

17203/58 fishery case 

17213/58 eel weirs 

17222/58 water supply, Mountjoy Prison 

17233/58 farm building loans, specifications etc 

17235/58 application for land improvement progress inspection (Queens County) 

17237/58 Royal Hibernian Military School: fire engine and shed etc 

17241/58 memorial by traders of New Ross complaining of failure of OPW works in 

the town, carried out in late 1840s, early 1850s (Admiralty inquiry) 

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17252/58 preparing ordnance survey sheets for drainage trustees 

17277/58 fittings and repairs needed for Mountjoy female prison 

17293/58 management of Portumna bridge, Nov 1858 

17312/58 various papers respecting building estimates for 1859-60 

17334/58 hospitals for House of Industry (Whitworth/Hardwicke) estimates & 

requirements 

17358/58 Kingstown Harbour: issue of dues chargeable to visiting vessels 

17360/58 plot for Model School house 

17374/58 Erasmus Smith school, Longford, claims for injury to neighbouring field 

17559/58 landed property improvement inspection form (Carlow) 

17560/58 landed property improvement inspection form (Tipperary) 

17728/58 letter of George Yeates c.e. relative to his dismissal 

17766/58 illegal trammel nets 

17783/58 workmen smoking during construction of Mountjoy prison (complaint) 

17803/58 re John Connors of Oldbridge, Clonmel 

17837/58 Treasury seeking account of OPW expenses 

17840/58 land improvement inspection letter 

17881/58 complaint of landowner after Lough Gowna drainage, Nov 1858 

17948/58 farm building loan, Nov 1858 

18446/58 Royal Hibernian Military School, ventilation 

18448/58 improvements to Landed Estates Court 

18454/58 new gate lodge at Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Nov 1858 

18464/58 landed property improvement inspection & correspondence 

18472/58 Queen’s College commission offices 

18477/58 Rinn & Blackwater drainage, compensation for injury to eel weir 

18485/58 problems of coastguard stopping hake trammel nets, Killybegs (Dec 1858) 

18492/58 re finishing works at Whitworth hospital 

18496/58 tart reply by John Kelly c.e. to query by Hornsby as to completion of 

accommodation bridges in Galway drainage 

18501/58 Rinn & Blackwater drainage, payments for eel weir (Dec 1858) 

18524/58 fishery correspondence, Dec 1858 

18557/58 compensation claims Lough Neagh drainage district 

18562/58 detailed correspondence re estimates 1859-1860 (good) 

18570/58 weekly return of arrivals at Kingstown harbour, May 1854 

18573/58 Kingstown steam packet wharf 

18589/58 declaration of arbitrator under 1851 Railways Act 

18880/58 space for waiting passengers on Kingstown piers 

18881/58 Kingstown harbour, report on steampacket pier 

18888/58 re spoil bank at regulating weir, Galway, Nov 1858 

19367/58 notes on works planned for Mountjoy female prison, for estimates 

19381/58 fisheries conviction, lord lieutenant states unwilling to grant clemency 

19614/58 furniture in Office of Inspector-General of Militia, Dublin Castle, Dec 

1858 

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Box 18 

316/59 – 7166/59 

316/59 Phoenix Park: proposed walk between Royal Hib Military School and 

Magazine Fort 

486/59 Curragh: female camp followers at French Furze, complaints by Curragh 

Ranger and Police, 1859-66 

789/59 agreement to rent piece of waste land at Athlone 

1347/59 Rinn & Blackwater drainage: compensation re loss of eel weir, 

James Foy 

1647/59 application for permission to form oyster beds in Sligo (excellent report of 

public inquiry) 

2352/59 Phoenix Park: appointment of a constable 

2375/59 estimates for Phoenix Park 

2512/59 Shannon Navigation: complaints of land being flooded around Meelick 

2628/59 Debate over drainage charges levied on lands of Company of Ironmongers 

2631/59 Rinn & Blackwater drainage (arrival of maps for inspection) 

2657/59 large hand-drawn map of river drainage, district of Turloughmore, Galway 

2658/59 Inny drainage, maps and annual report for 1858 

2675/59 works on Boyne navigation being undertaken, Feb 1859 

2712/59 erection of sluices at Newcastle weir, Balnaleck, Feb 1859 

2737/59 survey towards building embankment on lands near Dundalk, Feb 1859 

2795/59 Lough Oughter & Gowna drainage: loss of land by mill 

2796/59 yearly progress reports for Lough Corrib and Mask drainage 

2815/59 Rinn & Blackwater drainage: priest and rector seeking pass across river 

for parishioners 

2818/59 dispute re boundary of Drumshambo drain, arbitration by OPW, Feb 1859 

2867/59 Lough Neagh district; drainage annoyance and aid towards emigration 

2872/59 Cavan drainage: claims re severance and spoil 

2896/59 complaints by tenants and landowners in respect of drainage at Ballibay 

2953/59 violation of fishery laws near Drogheda 

2980/59 Custom House Docks: site for new bridge 

2981/59 convicted fishermen refused respite by lord lieutenant 

2955/59 constabulary prosecution for illegal fishing (Meath) 

3177/59 Tarbert pier (official forms and declarations) 

3178/59 Rinn & Blackwater drainage: map of eel weirs (good) 

3225/59 Lough Oughter drainage, works unfinished and land damaged by 

floods 

3292/59 progress reports in works at Lough Neagh (drainage and 

navigation) 

3412/59 Phoenix Park: residents seeking gas lights on the roads 

3440/59 prosecution for illegal construction of weir, Sligo River 

3488/59 Rinn & Blackwater drainage, compensation for loss of eel weir 

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3681/59 Phoenix Park: additional land required by Royal Hibernian 

Military School 

3804/59 expenses and estimates, Phoenix Park 1859 

3844/59 Kingstown Harbour: issue of harbour dues 

3894/59 fittings for Landed Estates Court 

4019/59 specifications re repairs to farm house, at Meelick, near Victoria Lock, 

rebuilding and replacement of dwelling (lovely sketches) 

4028/59 application for construction of farm buildings under land improvement 

loans (good drawings etc) 

4112/59 Rinn and Blackwater drainage, list of drainage implements for 

auction 

4140/59 deferral of new stables, Royal Hospital Kilmainham 

4175/59 Rinn & Blackwater drainage, floods burst dams on works 

4352/59 problems with works contracted for at Custom House, Limerick 

4321/59 requirements for lighting part of Conyngham Road 

4371/59 payments to labourers, Kingstown Harbour 

4373/59 repairs to swivel bridge, Athlone 

4411/59 Rinn & Blackwater drainage: problems with weather etc, Samuel 

Harding 

4412/59 Rinn & Blackwater drainage, suspension of works during floods of 

March 1859 

4535/59 objections to drainage awards, Lough Oughter drainage 

4538/59 large file on compensation awards, arbitrators (land improvement), 

Dunkellin drainage 

4700/59 Lough Gowna drainage; attempts to stop litigation (wonderful 

drawing of tenancies) 

4737/59 accidental drowning of girl in Galway at weir, need to put up 

protective railings 

4919/59 Galway Harbour Board: re allowing barque lay up in floating dock, 

March 1859 

4961/59 Rinn & Blackwater drainage; claims for land cut away (good) 

4966/59 letter on river drainage 

4971/59 increased rent and fishery prosecution (Kings County) 

6263/59 Ballinamore drainage: addition to annual report 

7013/59 Kingstown Harbour: compensation in respect of delays in 

construction of packet pier 

7166/59 Longford drainage: compensation claims, awards etc (numerous forms, 

good correspondence) 

Box 19 

7274/59 – 17995/59 

7274/59 Rinn drainage: award papers (objections etc), 1854-59 

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7918/59 correspondence with respect to Rinn & Blackwater drainage (engineers 

corr etc, massive file) 

1200/59 Tarmonbarry fish pass, August 1859 

14585/59 arbitration award (John Rynd), extension of line of Midland Great 

Western system under Sligo Extension Act of 1857 

16114/59 request by J. Owen for leave of absence 

17300/59 gas lights for Royal Hospital Kilmainham 

17904/59 new appointment of drawing clerk in office of Board of Works 

17995/59 man formerly employed by Board of Works in 1840s and early 1850s 

seeking allowance 

OPW5 – 835/60 – 1375/60 

835-1388/60 property compensation case, buildings near Dublin Castle (s) 

1877/60 Dundalk-Enniskillen Railway, note (vs) 

3912/60 Carrickfergus model school, plans and fittings, 1859-60 (ms)* 

4975/60 Cork-Kinsale Junction railway, routine legal documents (s) 

4232/60 application for employment from former BOW employee, George 

Cruw? (vs) 

5330-6148/60 Lough Neagh drainage, letters (s) 

6473/60 various notes and letters on Labouchere Drainage awards (s) 

7077-11213/60 various items of correspondence on personnel issues, complaints 

against people (s)* 

11868/60 definition of extent of fisheries at mouths of various rivers (legal 

documents) (s) 

11986-13401/60 

correspondence on Shannon Navigation * 

also drawing of Spa Lodge, Phoenix Park (s)* 

11629/60 application for rent increase after drainage scheme (vs) 

13197/60 misc correspondence, Dublin-Wexford Railway (s) 

13460-13757/60 oyster fisheries, Tralee/national schools etc (s) 

OPW5 – 13834/60 – 17904/60 

13834/60 minutes of evidence taken before select committee of House of Lords on 

Grand Canal and Midland Great Western and Great Southern and Western 

Railways of Ireland Companies Bill, May 1860 (includes discussion of 

Shannon Navigation), 8 th , 9 th , 11 th May 1860 (3 books of evidence) (l)* 

13835/60 minutes of evidence before sel cttee of House of Lords on Grand Canal 

etc, 14 th May 1860 (much on OPW and tolls) (ms)* 

14184-15194/60 

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Cushendun coastguard station (s) 

Erne drainage notes (vs) 

Erection of national school (s) 

15259-16012/60 

Lough Corrib drainage (p) (ms) 

Note on Shannon Navigation (s) 

Erne drainage (s) 

Drumcliff river drainage (s) 

Complaints and assessment of Ballinamore district (ms)* 

16257-16296/60 

drainage correspondence (ms) 

(16294/60) Lough Derravaragh drainage, report on net meshes, full-size sketches* 

(16296/60) Ballyshannon salmon fisheries report, Inspector Thomas Brady (sketch) 

(exc) (s)* 

16485/60 report of inspector on Land Improvements, O’Farrell of Dalystown, 

Galway (s)* 

16506-16655/60 

(16518/60) organisation of Lough Neagh files and papers discussed (!) (vs)* 

Ballaghadereen national school 

Final award, Fergus Drainage District 

OPW5 – 17904/60 – 19754/60 

17983/60 report on salmon fisheries in Bangor and Ballina district, by Inspector 

Thomas Brady (s)* 

18732/60 turf boat on Shannon (s)* 

water from Shannon for Limerick brewery (s) 

18969/60 Arterial Drainage, return of amounts paid to paymaster of civil service by 

district in Ireland, 1856-60 (l) 

19361/60 detailed breakdown of public works estimates (each major building) for 

1860-61 (m)* 

19589-19754/60 

note on Ballinamore canal (vs) 

Lough Corrib drainage correspondence (s) 

OPW5 – 19812/60 

19812/60 ten bundles of passes for grazing cows in Phoenix Park with accounts for 

cattle, 1850-60, also specs for repair of lodges in Phoenix Park, 1860 (p) 

(l) 

20

OPW5 – 19889/60 – 31059/61 

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19843/60 correspondence on erection of practicing school, Marlboro St, etc (ms) 

19889/60 Limerick male/female agricultural school 

20034/60 proposed pier at Redgap/Labasheeda on River Shannon (s)* 

26137/60 repair of post road, Broadford to Limerick (vs) 

20123/60 Brosna estate, application for increase in rents (vs) 

20392/60 Clauracle national school, Wexford (specs etc) (s) 

20427/60 Freehill national school (s) 

20591/60 architectural report on Roscommon infirmary (funded out of reproductive 

fund) (s)* 

20753/60 Galway Gas Light Company and schools contracts (s) 

20793/60 Fergus drainage (s) 

282/61 Clontarf coastguard station (vs) 

301/61 Lough Allen canal, excavations of 1818 (p) (vs)* 

321/61 Ardee Drainage (vs) 

359/61 Donegal Bay bye-laws, meshes of nets (s) 

419/61 application for rent increase after drainage completed (vs) 

480/61 application for rent increase after drainage completed (s) 

503/61 Fergus drainage (vs) 

504/61 land improvement report, Joseph Falkiner (vs)* 

508/61 routine forms referring to Shannon Navigation (s) 

516/61 petty sessions prosecution (vs) 

730/61 Kenmare national school, ordinary literary school (specs etc) (s)* 

848/61 Galway docks (vs) 

851/61 eel poaching tanks, Athlone, River Shannon (p) (s)* 

961/61 list labourers let go/dismissed from employt on OPW arterial drainage 

schemes, 1849-60 (s)* 

1080/61 Limerick Harbour Commissioners, changes in regulation of tolls (vs) 

1144/61 report on Brosna-Ferbane drainage district, 1860 (s)* 

1204/61 deputation from owners of fishery vessels from Great Yarmouth 

concerned about new Irish legislation in progress (vs)* 

1687/61 Ballyhas national school, Cork (s) 

1704/61 Lough Neagh drainage – engineer’s report for 1860 (s)* 

2222/61 application for increase in rent in Ballyglunin DD (s) 

1777/61 Lylane national school, Galway (beautiful plans) (s) 

1778/61 Cloghans national school, Galway (np) (s) 

2008/61 Kyle Park agricultural school, Tipperary, enclosure of playground (s)* 

2121/61 tenders etc for repairs to bridges on Shannon (s)* 

2207/61 specifications for farm buildings to be erected for Richard Grove 

Annesley, Annesgrove, Co Cork (p) (vs)* 

21

2210/61 Tyrone Navigation, estimate of works to be done (gd BOW notice, 

tracing) (s)* 

2370/61 Wilkinstown drainage district, various papers, 1853-60 (s) 

2402/61 public suggestions towards Irish Fishery Bill, 1861 (incl Ballina 

Conservation Bd) (s)* 

2406/61 alterations in weirs at Castleconnell (sketches, plans) (s)* 

2424/61 application for increased rent, Rockfield, Westmeath (s) 

2853/61 removal of wall of bridge, Fergus Drainage (vs) 

3041/61 return of OPW boats in use on Shannon Navigation, 1850s (s)* 

OPW5 – 3303/61 – 13073/61 

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3303/61 land improvement application, William Longfield, rent increase (vs) 

3304/61 land improvement application, Lough Oughter DD (vs) 

3519/61 Fergus drainage correspondence (vs) 

3750/61 Great Southern & Western Railway extension (printed form) (vs) 

10817/61 Lough Neagh drainage correspondence (s) 

3073/61 rubbish on Coalisland Quay, Tyrone Navigation (vs) 

3081/61 new roof for collector’s office, Lanesboro, Shannon Navigation (p) (s)* 

3083/61 Grand Canal Company, employing boat without Navigation permit (s) 

3131/61 questionnaires for coastguard service, reports on state of fishermen in 

various districts, 1861 (m) 

3221/61 Deelis national school, Cork, repairs (s) 

3225/61 rent increase after drainage (vs) 

3272/61 Reylough national school, Tyrone (p) (s) 

3299/61 unprotected state of weirs at Athlone (p) (s)* 

4136/61 oyster fishery, Carlingford Harbour, bye-laws (s) 

4345/61 oyster fishery, Tralee Bay, bye-laws (s) 

4990/61 trawling in Waterford Harbour, report and bye-laws (s)* 

5348/61 questionnaire devised by Fishery Commissioners returned by various 

Conservation Boards (s)* 

6768/61 Ballydoo & Kilcar Rivers, Donegal, fishery bye-laws (vs) 

6876/61 Dublin-Meath Railway – note (vs) 

7061/61 works at Female Prison, Mountjoy (beautiful sketches) (p) (vs)* 

7933/61 Midland Great Western Railway award (vs) 

8361/61 railway notice (vs) 

8709/61 note on railway award (vs) 

8766/61 report on James Redmond Barry on fishing ports (gd BOW notice) (s)* 

8767/61 report on sea fisheries, July 1861 (s) 

8172/61 arbitration in respect of works of Great Northern & Western Railway (s) 

9174/61 Treasury application to sell part of Phoenix Park to facilitate enlargement 

of constabulary barrack (p) (s)* 

10904/61 Ballinamore navigation – misc (s) 

11359/61 setting up turnstile gate at back of canal at Athlone (p) (ms)* 

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13073/61 Athenry-Tuam Railway (s) 

OPW5 – 14019/61 – 10718/62 

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14019/61 Ballywalter pier and Annalong harbour, correspondence (s)* 

14109/61 Drainage awards (vs) 

14317/61 Lough Neagh drainage (vs) 

14401/61 Midland Great Western Railway award (vs) 

14535/61 maintenance of part of Fergus Drainage (mills), (nice map) (s) 

14716/61 correspondence re models of fishing apparatus sent to Dutch Fishery 

Exhibition in Amsterdam, Sept 1861 (s)* 

15033/61 tender for turnstile to control access to NE canal bank, Athlone (lovely 

sketch) (s)* 

15085/61 application for increase in rent, Kings County (vs) 

15103/61 memorial of Carrickfergus fishermen to extend limits within which 

trawling permitted, for smacks (lovely chart of Belfast Lough) (vs)* 

15707/61 Kilcar River, Donegal – fishery bye-laws (vs) 

15917/61 Lough Oughter drainage, damage to mill-power (s) 

16611/61 Shannon eel fishery (s)* 

16627/61 Earl of Enniskillen seeking remission of drainage rates (s) 

16732/61 Dublin-Drogheda Railway Company (vs) 

16800/61 obstruction of eel weir, Sligo district (vs) 

17021/61 Lord Harberton and others seeking inquiry into Lough Gara arterial 

drainage (and remission of rates), report of Treasury on memorial (s)* 

17768/61 correspondence respecting Inny Drainage (s) 

17840/61 ‘sound-proof’ cells sought for Mountjoy Prison, detailed requirements for 

other minor works (p) (s)* 

18450/61 West Cork railway Bill, OPW commentary on proposed legislation (s)* 

18641/61 Dunmore East harbour: property conveyance (s) 

report on Galway salmon fishery by Thomas Brady, Inspector (vs) 

4694/62 Great Southern & Western Railway – note (vs) 

5434/62 report on house at Tarmonbarry bridge, Shannon Navigation (p) (vs)* 

6659/62 Cork-Kinsale Railway – note (vs) 

6817/62 Curracloe coastguard station, misc papers (vg) (vs)* 

7190/62 printed list of queries to be answered by surveyors in charge of building 

coastguard cottages (s)* 

7261/62 lease of Meelick canal bank, Westmeath (s) 

7282/62 Mountrath national school, Westmeath (s) 

7370/62 Geashill national school, Kings County (s) 

8567/62 Woodland national school, Donegal (s) 

8720/62 Great Southern & Western Railway award (m) 

9023/62 works on Boyne Navigation (s)* 

9436/62 Gortanummera national school, Galway (lovely sketches, plans) 

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9491/62 Mullnahorna national school, Waterford (s) 

10040/62 Dublin-Wexford Railway award (vs) 

10718/62 Wexford Free Bridge (vs) 

OPW5 – 14868/62 – 17964/63 

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14868/62 national schools; transfer of school building service from Commissioners 

of National Education to Board of Works, memos & correspondence etc, 

1857-58 (ml)* 

2535/63 Enniskillen-Sligo-Bundoran Railway – note (1p) 

4870/63 Shannon Navigation, complaints of flooding around Knockvicar (p) (s) 

5375/63 Waterford-Limerick Railway, fish traffic (s) 

6033/63 note on land improvement loans (vs)* 

6034/63 General Valuation of Irish Fisheries, for House of Commons (m)* 

6854/63 memorial asking for half-holiday on Saturday for OPW clerks (like clerks 

in English Office of Works), 2 May 1863 (vs)* 

7326/63 OPW services to Royal Hospital Kilmainham listed, 1862-63 (1p)* 

7334/63 proposed erection of ball court for the metropolitan police, Dublin Castle 

(?)* 

7563/63 permission for cavalry to drill in Phoenix Park, 1862 (s)* 

7670/63 Dublin Corporation waterworks: arbitrator’s award (vs) 

7760/63 ‘Fifteen Acres’ in Phoenix Park to be used by troops on 10 th March 1863 

(vs)* 

8522/63 erection of turret clock, Royal Hospital Kilmainham: correspondence 

(ms)* 

9355/63 reduction in Shannon tolls to encourage steamer traffic (records show 

small nos (ms)* 

9361/63 purchase of buildings etc by National Education Board (s) 

10123/63 oyster bed license, George Clive (s) 

10466/63 estimate for Dublin Castle offices etc, 1863-64 (s)* 

10473/63 Owenbeg national school, Sligo (1p) 

10652/63 Kingstown Harbour: problems with sewers from Clarinda Park (s) 

10910/63 Shannon Navigation, letting of plots on banks, 1850-59 (m) 

10943/63 Ballynagh national school, Cavan (vs) 

11728/63 Ballyloghan national school, Limerick (s) 

11812/63 Clare Island pier, work correspondence (including plans of Nimmo: 1826 

and plans of 1860) (ms)* 

15237/63 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, estimates 1863-64 (vs) 

17964/63 Cork Railway Company arbitration schedule (m) 

OPW5 – 1832/64 – 14494/64 

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1832/64 Phoenix Park estimates (buildings), 1864 (ms)* 

2401/64 Letterkenny Railway (vs) 

2581/64 Royal Hibernian Military Academy, detailed estimates for 1864 (s)* 

2945/64 oyster fisheries, Earl of Fortescue’s oyster beds, 1860-62, correspondence 

(p) (ms)* 

3500/64 Great Southern & Western Railway – note (vs) 

6098/64 estimates for drainage works in Phoenix Park, 1860-64 (ms)* 

7284/64 Grand Canal Company – note (vs) 

8412/64 Glandore oyster fisheries – misc notes (nice OS map) (vs) 

10447/64 Dublin-Wexford Railway award (s) 

10448/64 Cork-Macroom Railway award (s) 

10574/64 Glen national school, Kerry (vs) 

11156/64 Omeath coastguard station, Louth, works correspondence, 1863-64 (np) 

(ms) 

13122/64 Darby’s Point coastguard station, site acquisition file (lovely maps), 1862 

(ms) 

14267/64 detailed correspondence respecting works on Ulster Canal, reports etc, 

early 1860s (ms) 

14443/64 report on oyster beds in Clew Bay, ideas on promotion etc (vg) (ms) 

14494/64 Dublin, Wexford, Letterkenny Railways (vs) 

OPW5 – 14948/64 – 18760/64 

14948/64 Kilkenny Junction Railway award schedule (ml) 

15447/64 Dublin-Wicklow- Wexford Railway award schedule (m) 

17436/64 Castletown-Berehaven coastguard station, correspondence on works and 

repairs (mostly privies), 1861-65 (m)* 

17985/64 weekly returns of herring fishery at Howth, 1864 (m) 

18214/64 Rosscarbery coastguard station, erection works, 1862-65 (m)* 

18760/64 Bullsmouth coastguard station, Achill Island, construction, 1861-64 (ml)* 

OPW5 – 1532/65 – 18946/65 

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1532/65 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, ownership of slips of land checked up (s) 

2591/65 defective supply of water to Dublin Castle (s) 

3174/65 Shannon Navigation: dredger barge and general estimates, buoy designed 

by Rennick (sketch), sketch of 12 ton flat barge ordered for the Navigation 

(p) (s)* 

3175/65 maintenance estimates for Shannon Navigation, 1864-65 (s)* 

3235/65 prosecution of farmer initiated for trespass on embankment of Shannon, 

Roosky Petty Sessions (vs)* 

9638/65 Great Northern & Western Railway – note 

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12613/65 land improvement – note (2pp)* 

12734/65 Dublin-Wicklow-Wexford Railway award (s) 

12801/65 Glasnevin school, ventilation required (vs) 

14322/65 Central Model School – note (1p) 

14470/65 work on Mermaid powder ship at Ringsend graving dock (1p) 

14479/65 Altmore national school, Tyrone, cloak rack (vs) 

14523/65 improved heating apparatus in Landed Estates Court Record Office, 

Customs House (s)* 

14536/65 Shannon, case of Pat Callanan, legal costs, breach of salmon fishery byelaws* 

Shannon trader angry at toll charges, causes fracas with collector, 

convicted of assault at Petty Sessions (s)* 

14537/65 raising obstructions in Boyle River (1p) 

14545/65 unlicensed oyster fishery bed, near Omeath, Louth (stakes being put 

down) (1p)* 

15396/65 Belfast and Northern Counties Railway (vs) 

15405/65 * 

15419/65 eviction of widow from Board of Works house near Forty-Foot Road, 

Kingstown (obscene language) (s) 

15424/65 complaint of trespass committed during carrying out of drainage works, 

Omeath (1p) 

15430/65 land improvement advances (vs) 

15459/65 reports on Norwegian fisheries and fishery models at Bergen exhibition, 

by John Brophy, Oct 1865 (ms)* 

15465/65 BOW specifications for farm buildings (1p)* 

15511/65 report on nets in Rathmullen division (1p) 

15512/65 fishery note (1p) 

15536/65 Castle Park, Limerick, farm buildings loan £480, to John Delaney (vs) 

15563/65 Shannon Navigation – report on Carrigies drain (vs) 

15565/65 Athlone eel weirs, Thomas Gill, tenant, died 27 th /28 th Oct 1865 (vs)* 

15642/65 illegal appointment of bailiff at Carlingford Bay to protect theft of young 

oysters: memorial (1p)* 

15643/65 map of oyster fishing districts (1p) 

15681/65 national school no. 7193, Galway, repairs (1p) 

15763/65 Abbey national school, Celbridge, erection etc (p) (ms) 

15854/65 Ballycotton pier, Cork, notes (vs) 

15872/65 alteration of police station, 54 Summerhill (1p) 

15874/65 defective gas supply to Mountjoy Female Convict Prison (vs)* 

15951/65 form respecting national debt (1p) 

15970/65 arterial drainage works, Borrisokane (1p) 

15980/65 memorial of widow of Patrick Walsh, late carpenter-in-charge, Queens 

College Cork (s)* 

15984/65 Probate Registry Office, Londonderry, sewerage (vs) 

16006/65 contractor arguing for teak against heart of oak in works (1p) 

16010/65 Donaghadee harbour costs (1p) 

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16030/65 ‘models of stake weirs bag nets & fly nets for the judges’: note by Thomas 

Beard? (Brady?) (1p)* 

16032/65 labourer’s dwellings (1p) 

16034/65 drainage inspection to be carried out when potatoes are harvested, 

November 1865 (1p)* 

16108/65 co-ordinated payment of workers in Queens College Galway and on 

Galway Docks, (vs) 

16110/65 Kilkeel Pier (1p) 

16115/65 application for increased rent, Lough Neagh DD (qg) (vs) 

16116/65 critique by Wm Forsyth of Leesborough district drainage plans (vs) 

16130/65 Belfast and Northern Counties Railway – note (1p) 

16149/65 Kingstown Harbour, annual estimates, 1866-67 (vs)* 

16166/65 Kilbeggan drainage (1p) 

16193/65 complaint of conduct of Keeper of Nisi Prius Court (1p) 

16196/65 land improvement note (vs) 

16200/65 ships discharging at Kingstown Harbour (1p) 

16184/65 ventilation of boys school, Marlboro St (vs) 

16201/65 water power at Athlone Mills (sketch) (vs) 

16203/65 Ordnance Survey maps (vs) 

16204/65 request for copy of BOW Fishery Report, 1864 (1p) 

16250/65 application by Pim for licence for oyster bed near Westport/plundering of 

oyster beds in Clew Bay and in Achill Sound (s)* 

16252/65 land improvement note (vs) 

16253/65 farm building loans, letters (g) (vs)* 

16289/65 repairs on Maigue Navigation (1p)* 

16458/65 Newry national school out offices (privies) (p) (vs) 

16311/65 Shannon estimates, 1867 (1p) 

16353/65 land improvement form (vs) 

16355/65 finance note (vs) 

16373/65 rent of plots about Athlone (1p) 

16403/65 Four Courts accommodation, court chambers (1p)* 

16426/65 Board of Works and tolls on Tyrone Navigation (s)* 

16464/65 rubble stone on Kingstown Pier (1p)* 

16271/65 Ballinhassig arterial drainage (1p) 

16521/65 education office – note (1p) 

16462/65 Mountjoy Prison estimates, 1866-67 (1p) 

16548/65 fish hatching models in Custom House (Brady) (1p)* 

16573/65 Land improvement loans to William Burke, Galway (1p) 

16626/65 civil service certificate of character to BOW employee, Patrick Bushell 

(1p)* 

16642/65 Phoenix Park: memorial of gatekeepers (vs)* 

16645/65 Custom House warehouses, query as to state of (1p) 

16704/65 * 

16767/65 Shannon Navigation, sewer at Roosky for constabulary barracks (vs) 

16770/65 Ulster Canal – note (1p) 

16771/65 request for copy of Fisheries Bye-Laws (1p) 

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16776/65 Darby’s Point coastguard station site purchased from Mr Pike (1p) 

16802/65 work on Registry of Deeds (vs) 

16807/65 Kingstown Police Court: prosecution for trading without licence on East 

Pier (vs)* 

16822/65 contracts and works on Kilkeel Pier (vs) 

16876/65 note on piers of Co Clare (vs) 

16877/65 Portumna wharfage, 1865 (1p) 

16910/65 Chichester Fortescue writes seeking plans of Chief Secretary’s House 

from Board of Works (1p) 

16917/65 General Survey Valuation of Ireland, Ely Place, estimates for 1866-67 

(includes ‘painting, papering & coloring etc’) (vs) 

16921/65 Sligo – Ballaghadereen Railway – note (1p) 

16937/65 John Barry, carpenter-in-charge of public buildings, Cork, memorial from 

widow (2pp)* 

16638/65 defective lighting in Hibernian Military School (2pp) 

16954/65 Kevin St police barracks, stable fittings (s) 

17008/65 Ulster Canal – query on poor rates and income tax (1p) 

17173/65 National Gallery of Ireland, reports on buildings works etc, 1865 (s)* 

17180/65 flagpost on North Wall ordered by collector of customs (vs) 

17204/65 land improvement excuses of landlord mainly re ‘harvest operations’ 

(2pp)* 

17211/65 discussion of necessary accommodation at Four Courts (vs)* 

17216/65 trustees of Drainage Boards, names required (vs) 

17225/65 Shannon Navigation – note (1p) 

17259/65 greyhounds chasing deer in Phoenix Park, Nov 1865 (vs)* 

17664/65 drowning in lock of St George’s Dock, Dublin Docklands, need for 

imprvd protectn (vs) 

17647/65 Maynooth College maintenance and repairs, correspondence and memos 

(m)* 

18041/65 letters from Celbridge lock-keeper, Boyne Navigation, seeking remission 

of duties (vs) 

18184/65 Kingstown harbour, sinking of buoy (vs) 

18196/65 Lord Palmerston, cows grazing in Phoenix Park (vs) 

18210/65 Kinsealy national school: general repairs etc (ms)* 

18248/65 Camlin River bridges (1p) 

18279/65 gas company (2pp) 

18289/65 Ballyberry national school, Roscommon (1p) 

18290/65 Tarmonbarry national school, Roscommon (1p) 

18352/65 annoyance over Foynes quayage dues (1p) 

18431/65 Estates Court and land improvement charges (s) 

18438/65 sewer for urinal in Kingstown Harbour (s) 

18439/65 Newry Navigation, loan of diving apparatus to company (s)* 

18456/65 Monaghan model school – note (1p) 

18516/65 Bursary accommodation needs listed, Queens University Belfast (1p)* 

18517/65 destruction of Phoenix Park deer by uncontrolled army dogs (2pp)* 

18534/65 Fermanagh national school (1p) 

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18542/65 labourer blinded in a blast carried out building road near Carrick-on- 

Shannon (Pat McGrievy), looks for assistance (1p)* 

18563/65 Dunmore East harbour – damage in flooding (s) 

18583/65 Ballyhas national school, Cork, repairs (s) 

18609/65 Ringabella coastguard station, works and rents (sketches) (s)* 

18617/65 Board of Works carpenter-in-charge in each public building (s)* 

18624/65 Richard Irwin, land inspector – note (1p)* 

18743/65 auction of rowboats at coastguard depot (1p)* 

18746/65 debris to be tidied up, near Dalkey Quarry (1p) 

18786/65 Glen national school, Kerry (vs) 

18804/65 correspondence re Limerick land improvement case (vs) 

18853/65 estimates for Chief Secretary’s lodge (s)* 

18903/65 Sligo asylum letters re works: ‘Mr Owen says that there were 

considerable modifications made in carrying out the works’ (Dec 1865) 

(vs)* 

18906/65 Greencastle coastguard station, lease (vs) 

18939/65 ‘scarcity of labourers’ holds up land improvement scheme near 

Clonakilty, on estate of HE Townsend, Dec 1865 (vs) 

OPW 1852/66 – 20820/67 

1852/66 opening ground for gas main in Dublin Castle yard (p) (s) 

2130/66 report on state of Shannon Navigation, Shannon Harbour to Lough Allen, 

1865 (s)* 

2246/66 accounts for new infirmary and fire engine, Maynooth College (s)* 

4955/66 Athenry-Ennis Junction Railway (s) 

9929/66 Waterford-Passage Railway award schedule (m) 

15232/66 Phoenix Park gatekeepers and constables, employment issues and 

appointments (s)* 

15288/66 water supply from Royal Canal for Phoenix Park (s)* 

17178/66 distribution of venison from Phoenix Park (one deer each for BOW 

commissioners) (vs)* 

1962/67 Great Southern & Western Railway award schedule (ms) 

10977/67 tolls on Royal Canal (s) 

11056/67 Donaghadee coastguard station, Co Down, construction works, 1861-67 

(p) (ml)* 

13329/67 People’s Garden, Phoenix Park, cottage and flowers (s)* 

14188/67 Phoenix Park grazing records (l) 

20820/67 report of meeting to consider bye-laws proposed for protection and 

improvement of oyster fishing in Galway Bay (m)* 

OPW5 – 1550/68 – 12366/68 

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1550/68 deeds etc relating to Curragh of Kildare and Irish Turf Club (s)* 

5204/68 miscellaneous correspondence on RIC constabulary barracks, especially 

defences (m)* 

12242/68 Phoenix Park grazing records (pts 1-3) (ml) 

12366/68 reports on state of environs of Royal Hospital Kilmainham (garden, 

avenues, walks etc), 1868 (s)* 

OPW5 – 14907/68 

14907/68 Galway Harbour works and loans etc, 1859-68 (p) (vl)* 

Box 20 

25/569 

OPW5 – 15384/68 – 15689/70 

15384/68 extensive (excellent) file of papers on building of new central police 

courts (four courts?), Dublin, 1862-68 (bills of quantities, specs etc etc) 

19437/68 property maintenance survey (Oct 1868) of entire set of Irish coastguard 

stations (lists buildings at each location and discusses responsibilities of 

landlord & crown to keep in repair & some observations) (bears on 

construction programme of next decade?) 

21798/68 list of furniture required for under-secretary’s house, Dublin Castle (late 

1868) 

21993/68 tenders for construction of gallery in riding school, Dublin Castle (late 

1868) 

1580/69 proposed annual horse fair in Phoenix Park, April-May 1869 

13230/69 papers relating to construction of Ballycastle coastguard station, Antrim 

(good) 

572/70 report of inspection of decoration and fittings of royal palaces of 

Buckingham Palace & Windsor Castle with view to renovation of Dublin 

Castle 

2561/70 nice file on grant & construction of national school at Lurraga, Co 

Limerick, 1870 (some nice drawings) 

3414/70 schedule of arbitration, Joseph Fishbourne, with respect to lands required 

by Fermoy & Lismore railway in Cork & Waterford, March 1870 

5067/70 Board plans and specifications for proposed RIC barracks, Dungannon, 

April 1870 (& late entry tender by Belfast firm) 

11961/70 arbitration with respect to Cork Corporation & passage railway company 

(papers & forms) 

15689/70 purchase of lease held by Eccl Commissioners on land in lower Castle 

Yard, Dublin, 1862-70 

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Box 21 

25/941 

OPW5 – 539/71 – 15138/71 

539/71 tenancy agreement between Board of Works and individual re property at 

end of Malthouse Lane, Athlone (papers 1867-71) 

542/71 inscribed Ordnance Survey map re Letterkenny Railway, 1860-63: Public 

Works Loan Board. 

953/71 issue over repair of stores at Kilrush Pier, used by Malcolmsons & 

Limerick/Foynes railway – question of BOW liability. 

9612/71 dispute over ownership of boundary wall between College of Science & 

52 St Stephen’s Green, title deeds, nice property map (with garden) 

15138/71 (pt 1) Massive file re works at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth 

(authorized by treasury letter, 31 March 1865) 

15138/71 (pt 2) further papers relevant to works at Maynooth College, 1864-71. 

Box 22 

25/943 

OPW5 – 2108/72 – 4546/72 (pt 1) 

2108/72 report on application for grant etc under Landowners Residences Act by 

Sir HH Bruce (by Samuel Usher Roberts, 13 th Feb 1872) & accompanying 

papers 

2226/72 question whether to include Phoenix Park under scope of Royal Parks & 

Gardens Regulation bill, Feb 1872. 

4164/72 examination of possible effects on structure and foundations of Dublin 

Custom House by proposed Dublin Central Railway, early 1872. 

4546/72 (pt 1) arbitration (Fishbourne) in respect of additional lands required by Dublin- 

Wicklow Railway Company in years 1875-78. 

Box 23 

25/944 

OPW5 – 4546/72 (part 2) 

4546/72 (pt 2) enormous schedule of arbitration respecting extension of line by Dublin- 

Wicklow railway Company, Joseph Fishbourne, June 1854. 

Box 24 

25/945 

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5428/72 – 18021/73 

5428/72 report on design of Arklow harbour, Wm Forsyth, 1 st May 1872* 

5512/72 question of purchase of two cottages next to Waterville coastguard station, 

for accommodation of crew (ultimately rejected) – nice drawings.* 

11662/72 documents relating to loan application for new bridge at Ferrycarrig, near 

Wexford town 

13322/72 papers in respect of arbitration by Fishbourne regarding proposed 

execution of Cork Improvement Act, expenses etc, Aug-Oct 1872 (inquiry 

held in Cork 6-7 Aug 1872 and hearing in Cork on 3 rd Oct 1872)* 

13834/72 Letterkenny Railway Reference Book, 1871 (1863 Act) listing land to be 

purchased (part of Loan Board documentation) 

16177/72 Comments of BOW on plans of Dublin Tramways Company (rights of 

crown ownership of premises etc) 

16322/72 enclosing letter respecting plans of Dublin Central Railway Company as 

affects rights of Admiralty, Dec 1872. 

16201/72 Limerick & Kerry railway and property of BOW famine relief roads (no 

vested interest in them) 

16421/72 effects of proposed Dublin main drainage and land reclamation plans on 

City coastguard stations (only Clontarf at risk – need new station) 

16455/72 likely effect of Kingstown sewer proposals on Kingstown coastguard 

station, Dec 1872. 

16756/72 study of effects of proposed deviations off line of Wexford, New Ross & 

Wexford Junction railway, 1872-73. 

1913/73 analysis of impact (on BOW) of Dublin sewage and land reclamation bill 

& Galway-Clifden railway, Spring 1873. 

2062/73 purchase of tithe rent charges to which various Board buildings 

subject, 1872-73* 

2166/73 telegram sent to BOW asking for Inland Navigation minute Book 

(re arbitration?)* 

3627/73 discussion of Southern Railway extension 

3754/73 arbitration schedule re Southern Railway extension 

7518/73 bundle of parliamentary bills, Spring Session 1873, for 

examination (various) 

8995/73 correspondence re works on Shannon & Suck, 1862-73* 

10302/73 various items of business, Shannon Navigation, 1873 (mainly Lough 

Allen) 

10512/73 Shannon Navigation: trespass on BOW property by Sir Gilbert King at 

Charlestown, Drumsna 

14503/73 documentation (including draft report by Manning) on question of how 

experience of Seine barrage might be applied to Shannon flooding 

problems (letters from Paris etc)* 

16225/73 papers respecting Arklow harbour loan application* 

18021/73 notes on various Irish gas bills – Treasury sought BOW comments on bills 

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Box 25 

25/946 

OPW5 – 348/74 – 5665/74 

348/74 arbitration schedule (Fishbourne), 10 th March 1866, Southern Railway Act 

1865 

403/74 analysis of methods of overcoming flooding problems around Killaloe, 

Shannon Navigation, 1852-70* 

1056/74 bundle of parliamentary bills referred to BOW by Treasury, 1873- 

74 

2680/74 lists of pasturing farmers in Phoenix Park, with no of cows, 1873- 

74* 

5330/74 reports & pamphlets relating to flood barrages on the Seine, 1873- 

74* 

5665/74 Shannon Navigation, bills, reports & correspondence (flooding 

etc), 1865-74*? 

Box 26 

25942 

OPW5 - 19742/74 – 8778/75 

19742/74 papers relating to proposed drainage of Shannon & Suck rivers (incl 

Grantham report of Dec 1822 and documents etc from 1840s-70s) (vl)* 

659/75 analysis by Board solicitor of issue of proposed abolition of practice of 

requiring public officers to give security for due performance of their jobs, 

1869-75 (m)* 

1277/75 papers relating to arbitration of J Fishbourne in case of Waterford- 

Dungarvan-Lismore railway, Jan-Feb 1875 (s)* 

1475/75 Treasury & management of expenditure facilitating passage of railway 

access (tunnel) through Phoenix Park, 1872-75 (s)? 

5649/75 erection of boathouse at Moville coastguard station, court case taken for 

building too close to the road (s)* 

6943/75 Admiralty comments on building (by BOW) of Moville coastguard 

watchroom & store, Spring 1875 (m)* 

7466/75 grant towards enlarging national school at Scart, Co Cork (good, short file 

with good drawings)* 

8285/75 arbitration (Fishbourne) respecting plans for Dublin Corporation 

waterworks, Mar-May 1875 (s)* 

8444/75 arrangements for permission to Faucett’s steamers to use Shannon 

navigation for passengers & goods traffic, May 1875 (s)* 

8446/75 arbitration schedule (Fishbourne), re Belfast & Co Down Railway 

extension to Donaghadee & Bangor, March 1860 (l) 

8778/75 discussion mostly of problems getting extension to plot leased for Balla 

RIC station as building extension is underway (s) (useful)* 

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Box 27 

? 

OPW5 – 10048/75 – 20544/75 

10048/75 note on maps needed for railway arbitration, July 1875 

11337/75 file on ruins of Glendalough: inspections & recommendations, 1873-75 

(m) good, lots drawings* 

11338/75 Monuments inspection of Rock of Cashel towards conservation 

requirements, 1875 (s), drawings* 

10691/75 (pt.1) papers relating to Shannon Drainage Act, 1874 (before and after) 

(vl)? 

10691/75 (pt.2) file of newspapers recording passing of Shannon Act, 1874 (l) 

12405/75 shopkeeper seeks permission to extend shop on west pier, Howth harbour, 

June-July 1875 (s)* 

also in file – full spec of works to be done erecting coastguard station at 

Knockalla, Co. Donegal (May 1876) (m)* 

18341/75 interference with/negotiations respecting War Dept property at Shamrock 

Lodge, Limerick, Ordnance barracks, Athlone etc, 1862-75 (m)? 

19231/75 reports (with drawings) on proposals for Arklow harbour, Manning, Nov 

1875 (s)* 

20544/75 correspondence respecting Arklow harbour, April-Dec 1875 (m)* 

Box 28 

25,571 

OPW5 – 460/76 – 21811/76 

460/76 full report on Arklow harbour by Manning, 5 th Jan 1876 (s)* 

953/76 expenses of John Rynd as arbitrator in respect of Northern Railway Co. 

proposed bill, April-Aug 1875 (s)* 

3137/76 Shannon Navigation: proposed wharf at Drum, near Boyle for steamers, 

1860-75 (m)* 

9250/76 working papers respecting arbitration required for proposed Ballymena, 

Cushendall, & Redbay Railway Co. plans (John Rynd), 1873-74 (s)* 

9568/76 Shannon Navigation: problems monitoring toll-collection, employment, 

deaths, duties etc of lock-keepers at Athlone & Lanesboro, 1876 (m)* 

15264/76 arbitration schedule, Waterford, Dungarvan & Lismore Railway 

(Fishbourne), 21 st March 1876 (vl) 

16336/76 standard forms – reports on progress of drainage works in Glenariff 

District (Antrim), Feb-Sept 1876 (m)* 

17120/76 memorial (standard form completed) of managers of Drumcruttan 

(Monaghan) national school to BOW for loan for teacher’s residence, 

May-Aug 1876 (s)* 

34

18608/76 memorial to BOW for loan to erect glebe house for Booterstown parish, 

April 1875 (1)* 

19627/76 abstract of lease or assignment of The Mountain nat sch, Co Clare, April 

1875 (& map) (1)* 

21808/76 papers, correspondence regarding original construction of Royal Irish 

Yacht Club building at Kingstown and suggested changes, 1843-96 (useful 

drawings) (m)* 

21811/76 papers progressing Arklow Harbour improvement bill (protagonist being 

Copper Mining Company mainly), Jan-Dec 1876 (m)*? 

Box 29 

25573 

OPW5 - 1272/77 – 7707/77 

1272/77 abstract of lease or assignment for building nat sch, Kilmagner, 

Cork, Feb 1876 (1) 

1450/77 memorial to purchase dwelling house to make RC Glebe House, Coleraine 

parish, March 1875 (1)* 

1585/77 memorial to erect teacher’s residence, Carrickfergus town, Charles Quin 

PP, Jan 1877 (2)* 

1667/77 Bundle of railway and tramway bills forwarded to BOW for examination, 

1877 (l) 

1716/77 memorial to BOW for loan to improve teacher’s residence, Upper Callery, 

Rathdown, Wicklow, Aug 1876 (1)* 

2485/77 proposed removal of sales box on west pier, Howth harbour, to make way 

for increase in fishing fleet activity, lovely drawing of pier tenements, 

1870-77 (m)* 

2545/77 memorial to BOW to erect Glebe House, Maherow parish, Sligo, Andrew 

Morahan PP, April 1876 (1)* 

4866/77 case of Glebe loans made to Revd RB O’Brien, Newcastle, Limerick, 

1873-77 (good) (m)* 

5629/77 memorial re Ardee Glebe House, Revd McLevins PP, inspection notes etc, 

March-April 1877 (s)* 

5663/77 application to increase rent on Hazen estate, Co Carlow, on basis of 

drainage improvements, Nov 1876 (s)* 

6692/77 investigation of loan application of Hugh Fitzgerald to build 36 labourer’s 

dwellings on Nth Strand, with specs & copy of BOW rules and advice re 

labourer’s houses, 1873-77 (s)** 

6711/77 OPW and loans awarded for construction of new bridge at St Johns 

Bridge, Kilkenny City, 1871-77 (m)* 

6825/77 documents re grant towards building national school at Corofin, Clare, 

with specs, inspections etc, good drawing, 1874-77 (s)** 

7521/77 OPW and protection of Royal Canal water supply in face of threat implied 

in proposed Midland Great Western Railway bill, 1877 (m)* 

35

7707/77 applic of Charles Murland for loan to build 14 labourer’s dwellings in 

Castlewellan, March 1877, lovely drawings & maps etc (good) (s)* 

(topics done to here, 20 th May) 

Box 30 

25954 

OPW5 – 7770/77 – 10225/77 

7770/77 applic for loan purchase glebe land, by Rev McKeague, PP Faughan 

Parish, Derry, 1876-77 (s)*& 

7962/77 loan applic by Lisburn Town Commissioners, to improve streets by 

flagging etc, 1877 (m)*& 

7986/77 payment of John Rynd, Ballymena & Larne Railway Co, June 1877 (1)*& 

8453/77 applic for increased rents on Cuolohan estate, near Parsonstown on basis 

of drainage improvements, June 1876-May 1877 (s)*& 

8486/77 application for loan by Jos & Wm Gateley to build labourer’s dwellings, 

Roscommon town, 1876-77 (drawings) (s)* 

9239/77 construction of RIC barrack at New Pallas, Limerick, specs, damp 

problems, works inspections, smoky chimney, good plans, 1876-77 (m)** 

9401/77 additions/repairs to Queens College Cork: medical rooms, anatomical 

theatre etc, presidents house, 1876-77 (m)*& 

9617/77 land valuation respecting Dublin-Wicklow railway plans (2) 

9716/77 loan for erection of new Glebe House, applied by PP Kelsh, Killucan 

Westmeath, specs, estimates, good drawings, good correspondence with 

BOW, 1876-77 (s)**& 

9717/77 loan applic for Glebe House, John Magee PP, Stradbally, Jan 1875 – fair 

correspondence to 1877 (s)* 

10172/77 demolition/repair of unstable boundary wall, near Custom House, Sir John 

Rogersons’ Quay, July 1876-June 1877 (s) 

10225/77 report on damage to Ballyvaughan Pier (BOW c.1850) and requirements 

for reconstruction, 1837-77 (good drawings), (l)*& 

Box 31 

25,574 

OPW5 - 10572/77 – 22394/77 

10572/77 applic for increase of rent on estate in Torrent Drainage district (Tyrone), 

May-June 1877 (s)*& 

36

10819/77 effect of Torrent Drainage (Tyrone) on Tyrone navigation: compensation 

case, 1876-77 (s)*?& 

10870/77 resolution of trustees of Ardee Drainage District (maintenance), Feb-June 

1876 (s)*& 

10986/77 grant towards erection of Rakeeragh nat sch (Monaghan), perfect standard 

building specs & plans & drawings, summer 1877 (s)**& 

11060/77 problems building Omeath coastguard station (mainly re lease dispute), 

drawings, 1870-77 (m)* 

11177/77 damage to Antrim coast road (round Glenarm) by sea and land slips: BOW 

advice & involvement, Mar-July 1877 (s)*& 

11347/77 question of liability of BOW for stamp duty for stamped receipts for small 

amounts handled – disputed by Board, 1875-77 (s)*& 

11801/77 Glebe loan (purchase of land), near Limavady, Feb-June 1877 (s)*? 

11868/77 Glebe Loan to Revd John Egan, Derrylane, Cavan, works inspections and 

loan inquiries (good drawings) (s)**& 

11919/77 problem of payment of rents for Customs offices around Ireland: admin 

difficulties, April-July 1877 (s)*& 

13555/77 correspondence respecting Arklow Harbour proposals, Jan-Aug 1877 

(m)*? 

13842/77 memorial for loan to execute Glebe Works, Glebe House, John White PP, 

Ballyforan, Ballinasloe, March 1876 (1)*& 

14061/77 abstract of lease or assignment in respect of nat sch, Curraghs, Cork, June 

1875 (1)*& 

14092/77 documents relating to loan application, under Labourer’s Dwellings Acts, 

by WH Hill (civil engineer) to build in Cork city, 1875-76 (s)*& 

14258/77 Completion document awarding loan to Youghal PLU for Williamstown 

sewerage works, 10 th Aug, 1877 (1)* 

14431/77 notification of nat sch building grant awarded towards sch at 

Derrycunnihy, Kerry, July 1876 & abstract of lease (3)* 

14826/77 abstract of lease or assignment in respect of nat sch, Clounmacon, Kerry, 

Jan 1877 (1)* 

16027/77 works carried out enclosing and preserving monuments at Devenish 

Island, Fermanagh, 1877-78 (s)*& 

19511/77 copy of provisional orders under Confirmation Act for waterworks in 

Holywood & Greystones, Co Wicklow, under Sanitary Acts 1871, 1874 – 

compensation of farmers etc (1)*& 

19864/77 applications for employment by Board of Works as arbitrators in various 

cases, Nov 1877 (s)**& 

20429/77 Royal Canal: problems aired in newspaper columns, illegally constructed 

bridge, BOW blamed, Nov-Dec 1877 (s)*& 

21009/77 Mulkear river drainage (Limerick): correspondence respecting award and 

works carried out, 1870-77 (incl arbitration by Fishbourne in 1873), 

(vl)*& 

22394/77 appt of Fishbourne as arbitrator in case of extension proposed by Dublin, 

Wicklow & Wexford railway company, Dec 1877 (s)*& 

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Box 32 

OPW5 - 1233/78 – 4274/78 

1233/78 works at Spike Island convict prison, 1873-78 (vl)*?& 

1358/78 arbitration of Fishbourne (list of meetings) in case of proposed extension 

of Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford railway, Sept-Dec 1877 (l)*& 

2336/78 sanction of BOW for construction of hydraulic lift bridge over Royal 

Canal (& subsequent failure), 1877-78 (s)*?& 

4274/78 proposed Kingstown aquarium: BOW loan administration, 1874- 

78 (m)*& 

Box 33 

25,955 

OPW5 – 6330/78 

6330/78 (pt.1) Lough Oughter & Lough Erne drainage: mostly objections & arbitration 

problems, awards, valuation revisions, 1854-78 (vl) 

6330/78 (pt.2) Lough Oughter drainage: mostly objections to awards and drainage 

problems, 1853-59 (vl) 

Box 34 

25,956 

OPW5 - 9697/78 – 24636/78 

9697/78 application for permission to set up temperance refreshment stall on west 

pier, Howth, May 1878 (s)*& 

11440/78 lease of site for wooden box on Howth pier, June 1878 (s)*& 

11906/78 National Monuments; preparation of plans for caretakers houses, Aug 

1878 (s)**& 

12298/78 arbitration in case of planned works by Cork Harbour Commissioners, 

Fishbourne, March-April 1878 

12623/78 OS map showing line of Newtownards & Greyabbey tramway (1) 

14666/78 increase of salary of architect acting as inspector of national monuments 

(s)**& 

14716/78 Arklow Harbour: annual accounts & predicted income & expenditure, Aug 

1878 (s)& 

16065/78 loan applic by Thomas James to build labourer’s dwellings in Gorey, 

(good plans etc), July-Aug 1878 (s)*& 

22058/78 standard rental process & forms under Board of Works, 1876 (s)**& 

22221/78 memorial for loan for teacher’s residence, Derradarra, Tulla, Co Clare, 

Sept 1877 (1)*& 

38

22581/78 Limerick-Foynes railway: submission of plans & bill to Board of Works, 

1857-58 (s) 

22723/78 memorial of Waterford borough to build 17 new labourer’s cottages, Feb 

1876 (1)*& 

22732/78 abstract of lease or assignment of Rakeeragh nat sch, Monaghan, June 

1877 (1) 

23090/78 receipts & expenditure of Wicklow Copper Mine Company, Arklow 

Harbour, 1876-77 (3)& 

23995/78 Ltd Owners Residence Act: BOW loan to Earl of Kenmare building 

mansion in Killarney (good plans, drawings), 1877-78 (l)*& 

24296/78 preparation of lease for coastguard station at Ballyvaughan, Clare, Sept- 

Nov 1878 (s)* 

24221/78 memorial for loan for Glebe House, parish of Cabry, Sligo, Olpherts CI, 

July 1878 (1)* 

24624/78 passes & grazing rents, Phoenix Park, late 1878 (s)*& 

24636/78 mem to build Glebe House etc, Inver parish, Donegal, RC priest, May 

1878 (1)*& 

Box 35 

25,576 

OPW5 – 3879/79 – 25687/79 

3879/79 problem of sewerage entering harbour commissioners yard, Kingstown 

(drawings), 1878-79 (s)*& 

5924/79 progress section, Dublin-Wexford railway, April 1879 (tracing), 

(1) 

8165/79 transfer of ownership of Granard military barrack to constabulary for 

barrack conversion, 1878-79 (s)*& 

8180/79 standard forms, instructions etc in drainage matters (useful bits: info on 

drafting documents by solicitors office), 1840s-70s (l)*& 

13155/79 Ltd Owners Residence Act: loan to Lord Kilmaine for Gaulston Park, 

1877-78 (good legal discussion), (m)*& 

18619/79 financing of National Monuments Inspection by consols investments: 

analysis, 1879 (m)*& 

21188/79 loan applic for works at Skerries Harbour (drawings, lighthouse plans, 

annual reports of Dublin Ports & Docks Board 1860s-70s) (m) 

22314/79 Royal Canal: works at Broadstone Level (under 1877 Act), 1877-79 

(m)*& 

23841/79 loan applic in respect of proposed tramways feeding Enniskillen-Sligo 

railway, to exploit mineral resources of area, Nov-Dec 1879 (s)*& 

23981/79 removal of old water pipes from Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dec 1879 

(s)*& 

25687/79 distress memorial from Glencolumbcille/Glenties Union, late 1879 (s)*& 

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Box 36 

25957 

OPW5 – 3728/80 – 10815/80 

3728/80 Kildysart Pier, Lower Shannon: case of schooner ‘Adonis’, 1873- 

80 (m)& 

4780/80 note on proposed reclamation of Mulroy Lough tidal inlets, funding 

application, Jan 1880 (2) 

4553/80 reports on Cahirciveen pier as relief project, 1879-80 (s)*& 

4931/80 reports on fishery piers and harbours, Sligo, re relief projects, April 

1880 (s)*& 

5324/80 applic for passes through Phoenix Park for funerals, 1879-80 s)*& 

6108/80 loan applic for Waterford Dry Dock, 1879-80 (s) 

6177/80 Capt Maxwell seeking increased rent on lands drained under Hogan’s Pass 

district, Roscrea, 1887-90 (s)*& 

7829/80 routine communication between BOW and Midland Gt Western 

Railway, March 1880 (3) 

8019/80 inspection of Fertaghon round tower, Kilkenny, March 1880 (s)*& 

10815/80 distress and Arklow harbour works proposals, 1878-80 (s)*& 

Box 37 

25958 

OPW5 11095/80 (pt.1) 

11095/80 papers relating to Lough Corrib navigation, 1855-1880 (massive file, 

mostly objections to awards by millers complaining of interference with 

water power) 

Box 38 

25577 

OPW5 – 11095/80 (pt 2) 

11095/80 Lough Corrib drainage papers (much on mills), Eglinton canal, 1850-60 

(mostly) (massive file – again nearly all millers problems) 

Box 39 

25579 

OPW5 – 12490/80 – 32749/80 

12490/80 draft award in case of Waterford & Central Ireland railway, June 1880 (s) 

12592/80 distress works at Robert’s Cove pier, Cork, Jan-March 1880 (s)*& 

40

12593/80 distress works, Sea Fisheries Act, Glandore harbour (breakwater), Jan-Mar 

1880 (s)*& 

13115/80 construction of Rosmoney/Inislyre coastguard station, 1874-80(& repairs 

to Costello Bay coastguard station) (vl)*& 

13734/80 engineer’s report on Galway-Clifden steam tramway, Jan 1880 (s)*& 

14990/80 report of progress of works at Kilbannon ruins, by A Scott, March 1880 

(2)*& 

14989/80 weekly report of work progress at Inchcronane, by Scott, (1)*& 

16839/80 file on construction of Greystones coastguard station, 1878-1880 (l)* 

20149/80 Nat Monuments: ball-playing in Timoleague Abbey, 1879-80 (s)*& 

22370/80 mislaid papers in architect’s office, Oct 1880 (1)*& 

24874/80 lease of lands at Dalkey quarry, March-June 1880 (s)*& 

26792/80 accident to small trading boat, Calf Island, Shannon (OPW blame?), Mar- 

May 1880 (s)*& 

need for improvements to Feorish River drainage (Drumshambo), Mar- 

May 1880 (s)* 

28459/80 Dublin Corporation angry that loan for paving refused, blames BOW, 

1879-80 (newscuttings etc) (m)*& 

29185/80 construction of Emlanaghten nat sch, 1880 (some forms etc) (s)*& 

30791/80 Nat Monuments: owner of Kilmallock Abbey fearing transfer of 

ownership to BOW, June 1880 (2)*& 

31053/80 objection to BOW intervention on ruins of Abbey of Ballindoon, June 

1880 (s)*& 

32286/80 tenancy of old forge at Dalkey to be determined by BOW, Feb-Mar 1880 

(s) 

32349/80 Calf Island boat owner seeking compensation, June 1880 (s)*& 

32562/80 discussion of caves of Newgrange, June 1880 (s)*& 

32749/80 question of renewal of Glebe loans Act, 1879-80 (s)*& 

Box 40 

25580 

OPW5 – 32887/80 – 48421/80 

32887/80 proposals to rebuild Ballyhack Pier, Wexford, Feb-June 1880 (useful bits) 

(s)*& 

33162/80 drainage of Lennon River, Donegal: small file, 1875-80 (s) 

33186/80 compensation for loss of horse indirectly caused by OPW boat on 

Shannon Navigation, Feb-June 1880 (s)? 

specifications for construction of Lisdillon Nat Sch, Derry, May 1880 (3)* 

offers for leasing grazing of Dalkey quarry, June 1880 (s) 

33336/80 Glasgow & Killaloe slate company seeking loan from Pub Wks Loans 

Fund, 1879-80 (s)*& 

33446/80 attempts to have Creevlea Abbey, Leitrim vested in BOW, June-Nov 1880 

(s)*& 

41

33580/80 Loan for enlargement of Kircubbin harbour, Down, sanctioned, 1879-80 

(s)*& 

34514/80 agreement by Curragh Ranger for lease of tenancy of ‘Black Hut’, 

Kildare, Jan-June 1880 (s)*& 

37671/80 question of flood sluices on Shannon between Jamestown & 

Castleconnell, 1862-80 (m)*& 

38369/80 report on memorial for erection of fishery pier at Baltimore, June-July 

1880 (s)*& 

40762/80 report on ruins at Kilcullen, Kildare, July 1880 (s)*& 

42365/80 applic by Earl of Longford for land improvement loan, July 1880 (s)*& 

42619/80 grant for alterations and improvements to Gortroe nat sch, Cork, 1877-80 

(s)*& 

42636/80 job applications for post of paymaster, pier works, Clew Bay, July-Aug 

1880 (s)*& 

42765/80 loan memorial to build labourer’s dwellings, Wm McIlrath, Banbridge, 

Down, May-July 1880 (nice drawings etc), (s)**& 

42901/80 maintenance of Donaghadee nat schools by BOW, (forms etc), July-Aug 

1880 (s)*& 

43076/80 loan for works at Kinsale harbour, problem of estimates exceeded, 1879- 

80 (l)*? 

43342/80 new school house at Kill, Kildare, June-July 1880 (good) (s)*& 

44216/80 refractory conduct of Wm Greer, Monaghan, trespassing and damaging 

Ulster Canal, 1876-80 (s)*& 

44268/80 flooding memorial (distressed tenants) from Fenagh, Leitrim, July 1880 

(s)*& 

44405/80 police protection of Albert Lock, Shannon Navigation, July-Aug 1880 

(s)*& 

45373/80 constitution of Ballinlough Drainage District, Feb-Aug 1880 (s)*& 

45951/80 Bealadangan Pass pier, Connemara, responsibility for repairs, Aug 1880 

(s)*& 

45965/80 Commons order for information on expenditure/architects selected for 

govt works, 1870-80 (2)*& 

46036/80 purchase of lands/site for construction of Elly Bay coastguard station, 

1874-80 (m)*& 

46477/80 townland confirmed part of Conyingham’s Clare estate, July 1880 (2) 

46482/80 articles of agreement between John Orme Brettell & Charles Edward 

Brettell and BOW to supply and erect iron and brass work of sluices at 

Killaloe etc, Aug 1881 (1)*& 

46906/80 Camlin River drainage works; relief works proposals etc, 1879-80 (m)*& 

47019/80 building boathouse at Crookhaven coastguard station (lovely drawings), 

Mar-Oct 1880 (s)**& 

48099/80 construction of DMP station, Killiney, 1875-80 (drawings), (m)**& 

48421/80 Pub Works Loan Fund: inspection of road from Larne to Ballymena, 

1879-80 (m)*& 

42

Box 41 

25581 

OPW5 – 51624/80 – 51820/80 

51624/80 construction of pier & breakwater at Passage East, 1863-72 (l)*? 

51820/80 owner declines to vest Ferns castle in BOW, Sept 1880 (1)*& 

51827/80 works at Courtmacsherry pier, 1872-80 (l)*? 

Box 42 

25582 

OPW5 – 52747/80 – 59870/80 

52747/80 committee of control addresses question of Midland Gt Western Railway 

Co. raising tolls on Royal Canal, objections etc, 1877-80 (l)*& 

53204/80 owner happy to let BOW take possess of Rindown Castle, Roscommon, 

Sept 1880 (2)*& 

53206/80 rights of ownership in Kilcooly Abbey, Nov 1880 (s)*& 

58631/80 restoration of Ballinamore & Ballyconnell drainage district/canal, 1880- 

81: distress loan (m)**& 

58803/80 loan for purchase of teacher’s residence, Ballymacrickett nat sch, Antrim, 

1878-80 (s)**& 

59050/80 reduction of herd of deer, killing does, Phoenix Park, Oct-Nov 1880 

(s)**& 

59575/80 repairs to Rosroe pier, Galway (drawing), Mar-Nov 1880 (s)* 

59711/80 applic for rent increase on Elliott estate, Douglas drainage district, 1876- 

80 (s)*& 

59728/80 Howth harbour: BOW agreement with tenant of shed for selling fish, Oct- 

Nov 1880 (s)*& 

59870/80 works in Parsonstown drainage district, 1864-80 (l)*?& 

Box 43 

25758 

OPW5 – 61199/80 – 12527/81 

61199/80 compassionate allowance for retired labourer, from Phoenix Park, Nov 

1880 (2)*& 

62407/80 complaint as to state of masonry, Inland Revenue chambers, Dec 1880 

(1)*& 

62847/80 erection of Vale nat sch, Cavan, Jan-Dec 1880 (good forms etc) (s)**& 

63165/80 reports & correspondence relating to Kildare drainage district, 1871-80 

(l)*? 

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5137/81 case of Stephen O’Brien, Limerick accountant, versus BOW: over roof 

blown off BOW shed hitting him in Feb 1880 (seems BOW won case), 

1880-81 (m)& 

5560/81 Kingstown Harbour: Dublin-Wexford railway seeks permission to set up 

branch line from Trader’s Wharf to convey minerals being landed, 1877- 

81 (m)*& 

9539/81 problems respecting enlargement of mill buildings, damage to canal banks 

etc, Jamestown, Shannon Navigation, 1861-83 (m)*?& 

12527/81 vesting of Kilbolane Castle, Charleville, April 1881 (2)*& 

Box 44 

? 

OPW5 – 14358/81 – 31019/81 

14358/81 inquiry as to BOW restoring Killursa Church, Galway though not vested, 

April-May 1881 (s)*& 

14850/81 applic to BOW by Claremorris guardians to have wall of Ballinasmalla 

Church repaired, May 1881 (s)*& 

17027/81 suggestion that renovation of Roscam church and round tower might make 

good relief works, May 1881 (s)*& 

17231/81 Board of Control and request of Dublin Corpo to cover part of area beside 

Royal Canal, Mountjoy, to set up new manure management system, Mar- 

May 1881 (s)*& 

21227/81 repairs and other works at Foynes Harbour, Shannon, 1849-81 (l)**& 

24063/81 Biannual reports of Wicklow Copper Mine Company, 1873-81 (m)**& 

27151/81 applic for loan to build Glebe House, Rev Bartholomew Woodlock RC, 

Drumlish, Longford, (good report) (s)*& 

28231/81 repair of swivel bridge at Shannon Bridge, July-Aug 1881 (s)**& 

29951/81 leasing of boxes & stalls for retail purposes, West Pier, Howth Harbour, 

1874-81 (m)*& 

31019/81 work at Bournapeaka Pier, Ballyvaughan, Clare, 1874-81 (vl)*? 

Box 45 

25959 

OPW5 - 32784/81 (pt 1) 

32784/81 (pt 1) documentation relating to special inquiries of 1874/75 into 

workings to Lough Erne drainage & Ballinamore & Ballyconnell Canal, 

1846-81 (enormous)*? 

Box 46 

25960 

OPW5 - 32784/81 (pt 2) 

44

32784/81 (pt 2) further documents relating to Lough Erne inquiries etc, 1833-81 

(enormous file)*? 

Box 47 

25583 

OPW5 - 32380/81 – 10582/82 

32380/81 applic of J Acheson to build labourer’s dwellings, Portadown, May 1879- 

March 1927 (m)**& 

32906/81 North Wall postal telegraph office: fitting up office & purchase of site, 

1879-81 (m)*& 

33337/81 Kingstown Harbour: agreement with property owner to allow small devt, 

1881-85 (s) 

34478/81 case of Wilson versus Board of Works – matter of alleged obstruction of 

right of way on Ulster Canal (apparently settled out of court), 1866-81 

(l)*& 

35752/81 BOW architectural assistance to Senate towards appropriate site for 

proposed Royal University, Earlsfort Terrace, Oct-Nov 1881 (s)**& 

37531/81 correspondence relating to Arklow Harbour loan, May-Dec 1881 (m) 

41586/81 surveyor gets extra pay for overtime repairing Howth Abbey, April-Dec 

1881 (s)*& 

43016/81 works at Ardglass Harbour, 1877-81 (l)**& 

9602/82 papers on Arklow Harbour Improvement Bill, Jan-March 1882 (m) 

10582/82 erection of steam crane by Waterford & Limerick Railway Co, 1858-1945 

(m)*& 

OPW5 – 11393/82 – 15378/82 (part 1) 

11393/82 construction of waiting shed at Kildysart Pier, 1880-82 (p) 

15378/82 (pt 1) Kilkeel pier, construction etc, 1877-82 (vl) 

OPW5 – 15378/82 (pt 2) – 41812/82 

15378/82 (pt 2) Kilkeel pier, construction (includes work progress reports), 1860s- 

80s (vl) 

16159/82 Galway-Oughterard-Clifden Steam Tramways, book of reference (to 

plans) (s) 

23536/82 Ardmore Church, Waterford, reports, sketches etc (ms) 

31233/82 Dublin Corporation, paving loan £100,000, controversy over stipulation to 

use Welsh setts (ms) 

31421/82 Monasterboice, works, repairs etc, 1874-82 (ms) 

41812/82 Kildysart waiting rooms, correspondence (s) 

45

OPW5 – 146/83 – 45596/83 

146/83 remuneration of architects in competition for design of Science and Art 

Museum (ms)* 

5595/83 Arklow Harbour land conveyance (s) 

6839/83 Quin Abbey, works and repairs, 1881-82 (s) 

16257/83 Ballymena-Cushendall-Red Bay Railway Company, gen correspondence 

mostly re loan application (ml) 

20528/83 Kiltaghart national school, Leitrim (s) 

24702/83 Museum of Science and Art, acquisition of site and appointment of 

architect, correspondence (m)* 

25168/83 reports and correspondence in respect of Royal Canal, 1867-86 (l)* 

25413/83 Arklow piers (p) (vs) 

43211/83 proposed transfer of seven piers on Lwr Shannon: Foynes to Clarecastle 

(l) 

45596/83 (pt 1) Shannon floods inquiry, correspondence, 1865-83 (l)* 

OPW5 – 45596/83 (pt 2) – 50077/83 

45596/83 (pt 2) notes on report of inquiry into workings of 1874 Shannon Act 

(1875) (vl)* 

49576/83 Comyn to Anthony Scott after the ‘hurricane which raged between my 

tenants and myself’ respecting works at Roscam Church (vs)* 

50077/83 Harbour returns for Board of Trade, on various larger harbours (g) (m)* 

OPW5 – 20178/83 

20178/83 loan for construction of Wellesley Bridge, Limerick, 1877-83 (vl)* 

OPW5 – 51218/83 – 59145/83 

51218/83 fishery piers and harbours, bye-laws, Irish coast (vl) 

54577/83 Iniscrone pier and harbour, Co Sligo, works etc, 1880-83 (ml)* 

59145/83 Letterkenny Railway loan, 1880-83 (vl)* 

OPW5 – 57073/83 – 72450/83 

57073/83 Kinsale harbour insurance claim (s) 

58550/83 Tower of Old Pallas Church, Tipperary and local Board of Guardians (s) 

69280/83 Inland Navigation inquiry and report, 1877-1883 (vl)* 

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69285/83 Scattery Island pier, Co Clare (s) 

69922/83 Crab Island harbour, Co Clare (s) 

69925/83 Bunninahowna pier, Co Mayo (vs) 

70189/83 Edmund Point pier, Co Clare (vs) 

72100/83 Bunnacurry pier, Co Mayo (vs) 

72450/83 Pullendiva pier, Co Sligo (vs) 

OPW5 – 74726/83 – 82850/83 

74726/83 Quin Abbey, reports and works etc (m) 

76039/83 Helvick Head coastguard station, gardens, ruins of old salt house (p) (ms)* 

78669/83 Moymore national school, Co Clare, construction (m)* 

79520/83 Public Works Loans Bill, comments by OPW (m) 

79552/83 Howth Harbour, obstructions in sewer (s) 

79979/83 Kingstown Harbour, shed on mail pier, built c.1858 by Woodford 

Ironworks of Birmingham who, asked for information on the construction, 

reply that all their ‘plans and drawings in connection with it were 

destroyed, with a large quantity of others, on our removing our 

engineering and constructional department from London’ (vs)* 

80343/83 Park national school, Co Wexford (no 1 plan) (ms) 

80359/83 photographs of national monuments taken by Messrs Ward of Cork for 

OPW, album of 210 images to be donated to RIA as promised (vs) 

81590/83 Upper Inny drainage – case of Major-General Nugent, woes of landlord 

(ms)* 

82850/83 Gleesk harbour and approach road, Kerry, construction, 1880-83 (m)* 

OPW5 – 83121/83 – 85635/83 (pt 1) 

83121/83 St Finian’s Church, Co Kerry, works (vs) 

84479/83 Sea Fisheries loan form (vs) 

85636/83 (pt 1) Shannon floods, regulations and works, 1877-83 (vl)* 

OPW5 – 85636/83 (pt 2) – 85742/83 

85636/83 (pt 2) Shannon floods regulation, works, sluices etc, Meelick channel 

(vl)* 

86575/83 Limerick waterworks, loan, plans for Shannon Navigation (ml) 

85742/83 Barnakyle drainage rent increase, application of Wm Lane Joynt, ‘case 

should not be heard’ (vs) 

OPW5 – 87198/83 – 88096/83 

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87198/83 Phoenix Park, Parkgate St entrance lodges, alterations and improvts, misc 

papers (m)* 

87292/83 Kinsale Harbour, compensation to proprietors (vs) 

87357/83 loan to tenant under 1881 Land Act, Edward Brown of Mullen, Co Kerry, 

applicant for loan of £200 (g) (s)* 

87703/83 Irish Land Commission, 76 Merrion Square, bad sanitation, illness of staff, 

1882-83 (ms)* 

88076/83 Shannon Navigation, sewer problem at Carrick-on-Shannon (m) 

88096/83 survey by questionnaire form of standards of custody of parochial records 

in Irish parishes (l) 

Box 48 

25971 

OPW5 – 84/84 – 26530/84 

84/84 Rathangan River drainage scheme, Kildare, 1874-84 (petition, plans, 

complaints, inspections etc; contractor’s problems & good Forsyth report 

of Oct 1878*; interesting court case disallowing Drainage Boards from 

taking possession of lands in arterial drainage schemes unless full 

agreement obtained**) (l)*?& 

310/84 resignation & pension: McKerlie, chairman of OPW, Jan 1884 (s)*& 

596/84 contract & specification for construction of Seafield Pier, Clare, 1884 

(m)* 

15037/84 miscellanous national monuments correspondence, incl report on 

Killadreena Church, Wicklow, 1879-84 (s)*& 

11966/84 BOW arbitration in case of Rathmines & Rathgar waterworks (George 

Posnett), arbitration expenses etc, 1880-81 (m)*& 

20235/84 installing new tail gates at Albert Lock, Shannon Navigation, done at 

Kingstown works, 1880-84 (good) (s)*& 

20330/84 report on site for proposed new school at Birchfield, Mayo, 1884 (s)*& 

20530/84 lease of site for school at St John’s, Waterford, 1883-84 (s)* 

20532/84 loan for teacher’s residence at Articlave village, Derry, spec, lovely 

drawings, 1876-1915 (m)*& 

20533/84 loan for teacher’s residence at Rathama, Carlow: disputes over specs, 

1883-84 (s)*& 

20998/84 problems over Stephen St building with windows overlooking Dublin 

Castle apartments, 1883-84 (s)*& 

21107/84 construction of boundary wall round Eskra national school, Tyrone, 1861- 

84 (plans, specs, enclosures) (detailed) (m)*& 

24617/84 memorial for loan to build teacher’s residence, Cuilnacava, Roscommon, 

(s)*& 

25598/84 new moorings, maintenance of swivel bridge, boats wrecked on stones of 

old pier, Arklow harbour, 1882-84 (m)*?& 

26531/84 memorial for loan to build teacher’s residence, Kilkeerin, Galway, 1884 

(s)*& 

48

Box/Bundle 49 

OPW5 – 12982/84 

12982/84 Public works loan (?) for construction of Carrick-on-Suir bridge, 1877-84 

(loan process, specs, tenders, compulsory purchase issues, plans, 

inspections and recommendations, co surveyor engineer: Worrall) (very 

much a BOW bridge, designed by Forsyth etc), (vvl)** 

Box 50 

25590 

OPW5 – 26613/84 – 26859/84 

26613/84 memorial praying for repairs/reconstruction of Rosses pier, Sligo, 1884-86 

(s) 

26859/84 papers on Upper Inny drainage, 1867-84: early drainage proposals by 

Drainage Board in 1867*, award of expenses (1881), contractor’s 

claim/engineer’s remuneration (James Dillon)*, objections to award, 

papers relating to works (regulators, eel weirs)*, interim payments, Dillon 

V BOW High Court case of 1882, rain gauges & hydrometric data 

(vl)*??& 

Box 51 

25969 

OPW5 – 26859/84 (pt 2) 

26859/84 Upper Inny drainage scheme, papers 1866-84: original petition of 1866 to 

act of 1868, contractors problems, landowners’ complaints, treasury loans 

in 1870s: stages, BOW inspections of works in 1870s, objections to draft 

awards (1881), drawings & plans, Lough Sheelin regulating weir (Forsyth 

working on contract for the BOW in later 1870s), claims for damage to 

lands (vl)***??? 

Box 52 

25589 

OPW5 – 28041/84 

28041/84 Loan for Tralee & Fenit harbour/pier (& railway) under 1880 Distress Act 

(baronial sessions?), 1881-86 (court case won by BOW, orig reports etc, 

newspaper cuttings, treasury correspondence, BOW loan applic report) (cd 

be useful example of PW Loan) (vl)** 

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Box 53 

25970 

OPW5 – 28268/84 – 34500/84 

28268/84 Kilbeggan drainage district, 1854-1945 (objections to award in 1857; 

compensation claims; problems with millers in 1857 over mill-power and 

again in 1884 over control of weirs; election of trustees Nov 1857; 

increases in rent in 1850s; works expenditure mid-1850s; Lough Ennell 

regulating weir; maintenance notebooks dated 1917 & 1945 with water 

level notes etc) (l)*? 

28287/84 loan etc for lease site for Brockagh national school, Glenfarne Co Leitrim, 

(!), 1884 (s)*& 

29161/84 report on plans for proposed science and art dept, Dublin, 1884 (by Crom 

a Boo) (drawings) (s)* 

31116/84 appointment of pay clerk to Kinsale Harbour Works (being carried on 

without original contractor by the BOW), lots applications with 

references, 1881-84 (m)*& 

32698/84 memorial to enlarge Clare Island harbour, Sept 1884 (s)*& 

Kildysart buoy, Shannon Navigation (outside jurisdiction), map, 1880 

33050/84 repairs to Claggan coastguard station, Belmullet, 1877; repairs and 

maintenance of divisional officer’s house in Belmullet town, 1877-84 

(disputes etc) (m)*& 

33162/84 request to berth ‘Charlotte’ at Cappa Pier, Kilrush, Shannon Navigation 

(2)& 

33245/84 renovation of St Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle, 1882-84 (m)**& 

33334/84 misc correspondence on management of Ulster Canal: rental of Monaghan 

Canal store, 1876-84; income tax payable, 1884, shoals removed 1884, 

assault on canal bankranger, March 1884; materials requisitioned for canal 

repairs 1884; complaint agt canal keeper, 1881; farmer sues BOW for 

flooding of his lands, 1880-81; various trespasses and injuries to canal 

property, 1881-82; steeping flax in boundary drain, 1880; rentals, property 

maps, arrears of rent due BOW, 1873-78 (m)**& 

33398/84 erection of Skehanabeg national school, Cork, 1882-84 (specs, 

inspections, drawings) (s)*& 

33671/84 report on site for Kilvemnon national school, Tipperary, 1884 (s)* 

34173/84 works done on Royal Canal, 1884 (s)*& 

34500/84 problems with use of site for Gortagarry national school, Tipperary, 1884 

(s)* 

34204/84 grant towards building school at Clogheen, Cork, 1884 (specs, inspections 

etc) (s)*& 

Box 54 

50

OPW5 – 35633/84 (pt 1) 

35633/84 Youghal bridge over River Blackwater papers, 1877-84 (very much a 

BOW project) (orig report on need for bridge restoration or new iron 

bridge (Forsyth), specs & alterations, allegations of bad design, tenders, 

superintendence of works, bridge plans, public works loan repayment 

schedule, inspections and works problems, tolls management, excess of 

expenditure) (excellent stuff) (vl)*& 

Box 55 

25973 

OPW5 – 35633/84 – 36129/84 

35633/84 Youghal bridge, 1860-84 (specs, early correspondence relating to 

problems with old bridge in 1860s & process of legislation, High Court 

case of late 1870s BOW respondent in: briefs and notes, summaries) 

(good) (vl)* 

35751/84 spec & contract for construction of Ross Bar pier, Rosscarbery, Cork 1884 

(s)* 

35997/84 contract & spec for Knockadoon boatslip, Cork, 1884 (s)* 

36118/84 spec & contract for Easkey pier, Sligo, 1884 (s)* 

36129/84 contract for additional works at Arklow harbour, Dec 1884 (s)* 

OPW5 – 416/85 (pt 1) – 730/85 

416/85 Kinsale pier and harbour, 1840s-80s, misc papers, including intriguing 

notes extracted from ‘Mulvany’s Notebook’ of 14 th April 1843, discussing 

Kinsale pier (possibly notes taken in role as Fisheries Inspector) (m)* 

730/85 Miscaun Mave or Knocknarea cairn, question of protection required (vs) 

OPW5 – 416/85 (pt 2) 

416/85 (pt 2) Kinsale pier works and finances (ctd) (l) 

OPW5 – 2382/85 (pt 1) 

2382/85 reports/correspondence/memos in respect of administration of Irish 

Reproductive Loan Fund, 1880-83 (vl)* 

OPW5 – 2382/85 (pt 2) 

2382/85 (pt 2) Irish Reproductive Loan Fund, recovery of arrears, 1870s-80s (vl)* 

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OPW5 – 2766/85 – 3620/85 

2766/85 Shannon Navigation: injury to P? Lock by the steamer ‘Dublin’ (s) 

2788/85 Tyrone Navigation, ground let in Coalisland Harbour for John Eccles to 

put a steam engine (s)* 

2907/85 Malin Head pier works – spec/prices (vs) 

Thrawndaleen pier, Galway, specs/prices (s) 

3330/85 report on Shannon Navigation, y/e 31 st March 1885 (s)* 

3529/85 Southern Railway Company: bound correspondence in respect of loans etc 

(m)* 

3620/85 Sligo-Leitrim Railway Co. – loan sanction and reports, 1878-85 (l) 

OPW5 – 3838/85 – 4865/85 

3838/85 Kenneth McDonald, contractor Kinsale works (vs) 

4248/85 Shannon Act 1885 (vs) 

4629/85 Inspector’s report on National Monuments, 1884-1885 (s) 

4865/85 Athlunkard Bridge, loan & construction, 1880s (l)* 

Box 56 

25976 

OPW5 – 5348/85 – 9643/85 

5348/85 Waterford & Wexford railway: sale of railway land & erection of new 

platform (BOW supervising and ruling decisions), 1884-85 (m)* 

5836/85 encroachment on site of Gurtagarry nat sch, Tipperary, 1885 (s)* 

6797/85 Kilkeel harbour, contract & spec, 1885 (s)* 

7107/85 contract & spec for Greystones pier, 1885 (s)* 

7960/85 arbitration appt by BOW in case of Croom Union acting under Labourers 

Act 1883 to build cottages (seems compulsory purchase orders for 

lands/sites), book listing ownership of lands with maps of plots, 1885 (s)* 

8235/85 Ltd owner’s residences acts of 1870-71: applic of dowager baroness 

Castletown, Queen’s County, improvements to Grantstown sanctioned, 

1884-85 (m)* 

8581/85 contract & spec for Lecanvey pier, Mayo, 1885 (s)* 

8643/85 negotiations for vesting Newgrange & Knowth in BOW care, 1885 (s)* 

8659/85 contract & spec for Malinmore boatslip, Donegal, 1885 (s)* 

9330/85 contract & spec for Lackan pier, Mayo, 1885 (s)* 

9539/85 Lerr Drainage District: 1880-85 (mostly minor works & loans applied for 

by Drainage Board over period) (ml)*? 

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96351/85 response of Arklow harbour master to ruling of BOW on wharfage rates 

on stone paving setts (business of CS Parnells!), 1885 (s)* 

9643/85 contract & spec for Union Hall pier, Cork, 1885 (s)*? 

OPW5 – 10147/85 – 10869/85 

10147/85 Shannon Navigation: opening of sluice gates to prevent flooding, 1885 

(ms)* 

10173/85 Balla Drainage District, mill at Moyhenna (vs) 

10253/85 Malin Head pier, plans distributed to certain local inhabitants (vs) 

10400/85 report on Limerick Canal, Sept 1885 (s)* 

10518/85 comments by OPW on Shannon Navigation Bill, 1885 (m)* 

10738/85 Ballygoughlan national school, Limerick, erection & repairs (ms)* 

10869/85 works etc at Dunmore East Harbour, 1860-85 (ml)* 

OPW5 – 10540/85 

10540/85 Bound volume (probably Railway Award) (m) 

OPW5 – 9859/85 – 13472/85 

9859/85 Museum of Science and Art (& National Library), issue of different kinds 

of stone to be used (s)* 

9917/85 Parsonstown drainage – apportionment of rent charge (s) 

10015/85 Larne Harbour, 1870s-80s (mostly loan finances for works proposed) (p) 

(m) 

10066/85 Mr Esmonde’s complaint re workings of Shannon sluices (ms) 

10129/85 Sea Fishery correspondence: bond, probably relating to loans (s) 

10588/85 Clonakilty Extension Railway, arbitration on foot of legislation (s) 

10774/85 loan granted to Kanturk PLU for labourer’s houses (ms) 

12295/85 drainage forms (routine) (t) 

13742/85 Granard Junction Light Railway/Steam Tramway, inspections/reports etc 

(m)* 

OPW5 – 11038/85 – 11370/85 

11038/85 Killitiane national school, Galway, erection (m) 

11128/85 Limerick constabulary barracks (1p) 

11232/85 Rosserk Abbey, Mayo, report (vs) 

11290/85 Patrick J O’Connor, 2 nd class clerk, estab. file, 1881-85 (s)* 

11330/85 Nanny River arterial drainage, file on repayment of instalments (m) 

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11358/85 rocket cart houses and life saving apparatus in Irish coastguard stations (p) 

(m)* 

11370/85 Science and Art Museum & NLI, competition entries, plans, 

correspondence (ml)* 

OPW5 – 655/86 – 1024/86 (pt 1) 

655/86 Great Southern & Western Railway – note (s) 

941/86 Tarbert national school, Kerry (vs) 

1024/86 (pt 1) Lough Corrib drainage, Galway Mills (vl) 

OPW5 – 1024/86 (pt 2) – 3480/86 

1024/86 (pt 2) Lough Corrib drainage (2) – Galway Mills (vl) 

1055/86 note on Arklow Harbour works (1p) 

1442/86 various ancient monuments considered in respect of preservation orders 

(vs) 

3480/86 Balla constabulary barrack, sanitation problems, 1879-86 (l)* 

2034/86 Clonakilty Railway note (vs) 

OPW5 – 3438/86 

3438/86 Limerick PLU, schedule book in respect of land purchase under 

Labourer’s Acts (m) 

OPW5 – 4123/86 

4123/86 correspondence, plans, memoranda, Minute Book etc of Barrow Drainage 

Commission, 1885-86 (vl)* 

OPW5 – 3783/86 – 10477/86 

3783/86 rent of plot on Shannon (vs) 

4245/86 Kilmore Pier, specification (s) 

6464/86 approach road to Brandon Pier (vs) 

4889/86 New Museum of Science and Art – legal documents (s)* 

7528/86 works at Fenit Pier (p) (s) 

9045/86 Ballina-Killala Railway and Harbour Act, 1883 (s) 

9439/86 Ventry coastguard station, site acquisition (s) 

9567/86 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, sanitation works at infirmary, 1885-86 (s)* 

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10022/86 Howth harbour, death of John Corcoran, labourer, aged 99, ‘in receipt of 

compassionate allowance of £16.5.6 per annum since the 2 nd August 1886’ 

& ‘able until lately to discharge his duties in a satisfactory manner’, first 

employed 1849 (s)* 

10120/86 civil service examination for Surveyors – example (s)* 

10140/86 Navan constabulary barracks, bridewell conversion, tenders (s)* 

10172/86 use of Polo Grounds in the Phoenix Park (1p) 

10205/86 rebuilding a wall at Dublin Castle (vs) 

10208/86 Donaghmore PLU loan (vs) 

10213/86 ship refused to pay tolls to authorities in Arklow Harbour (1p)* 

10225/86 proposed visit of Great Eastern to Kingstown Harbour (s)* 

10226/86 note on Inniscrone coastguard station (1p) 

10240/86 note on Ballytaigue drainage (1p) 

10338/86 loan to Enniscorthy PLU under Labourer’s Acts (vs) 

10339/86 caretaker at Glendalough requires ‘a spade shovel & scythe’ (1p) 

10350/86 Dundalk PLU – loan under Labourer’s Acts (s) 

10365/86 liability to landed proprietor’s to drainage charges (vs) 

10392/86 supply of brushes to Prison Board (after complaints as to quality) (vs) 

10393/86 Poor Rate paid on Shannon eel weirs (vs) 

10475/86 Coolaness national school, Fermanagh (s) 

10476/86 Montgomery national school, Antrim, new classroom (p) (ms) 

10477/86 Carrigaline national school, Cork (p) (vs) 

OPW5 – 10478/86 – 12684/86 

10478/86 Harold’s Cross national school, Co Dublin, improvements, 1878-86 (p) 

(m) 

10479/86 superannuation case of Thomas Bowers, OPW messenger (s) 

10481/86 new quay at Barna, Farranmoyle, Galway (vs) 

10488/86 Donaghadee coastguard station, new washhouse, Nov 1886 (vs) 

10485/86 Four Courts, cushions for junior bar (p) (vs) 

10495/86 coal supplies – OPW inspection (vs) 

10499/86 missing ladder (vs) 

10502/86 Dunmore harbour, Board of Works curing house (vs) 

10505/86 lost cheque (vs) 

10516/86 Belfast model school, damage by occupying army (vs) 

10532/86 Mulroy coastguard station, erection, later works, 1858-86 (m) 

10559/86 Annascaul pier, boatslip, Kerry, 1880-87 (p) (m) 

10565/86 defensive arrangements at Keel coastguard station, 1886 (vs) 

10608/86 note on labourer’s cottages 

10638/86 examination of county surveyors assistants, papers of 1886 (vs) 

10654/86 breaches of regulations by ship in Ardglass harbour (vs) 

10660/86 Kingstown harbour master angered by local police (Board drops 

complaint) (vs) 

10667/86 telegram 

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10684/86 Boherboy dispensary, Kanturk PLU, specifications, plans (qg) (ms) 

OPW5 – 10689/86 – 10748/86 

10689/86 River Suir rates (vs) 

10690/86 approach road to Lecanvy Pier, Mayo (vs) 

10708/86 Science and Arts museum, purchase cost of site, arbitrations (vl) 

10728/86 Claggan coastguard station, lease and additional accommodation, 1860-86 

(m) 

10733/86 closure of ‘Castle steps’, Dublin Castle (vs) 

10748/86 extension of repayment time for land loan (vs) 

OPW5 – 10765/86 – 10943/86 

10765/86 Baltracey drainage district note (1p) 

10769/86 Bawnboy ratepayers memorial re dismissed workhouse people (vs) 

10771/86 lunatic priest in Kilkenny asylum (BOW has nothing to do with it) (vs) 

10795/86 loan £600 to Christopher McGrane of Irishtown, Ringsend, to purchase 

steamtrawler (vs) 

10810/86 Albert model farm, water supply for fire prevention (s) 

10820/86 Rathdrum PLU, loan under labourer’s acts (s) 

10822/86 new overcoat for Kingstown Harbour man (lost an arm) (vs) 

100842/86 examination of county surveyor’s assistants (answers and paper) (s) 

10853/86 Garroughs boatslip (vs) 

10860/86 defences at Bullsmouth coastguard station (vs) 

10861/86 defences at Achillbeg coastguard station (vs) 

10862/86 North Aran coastguard station (vs) 

10880/86 Waterford bridge commissioners, application for loan for rebuilding 

bridge (ms) 

10886/86 revising barristers, court accommodation, BOW has no authority (vs) 

10882/86 expenses in respect of Customs buildings in Ireland (note) (vs) 

10877/86 proposed conversion of Lurgan bridewell into RIC station (good plan) (vs) 

10892/86 Fenit harbour loan, note (vs) 

10904/86 RIC estimates, note (vs) 

10906/86 defence of coastguard station, Blacksod Point (vs) 

10908/86 Woodstock agricultural school, Co Kilkenny, alterations to piggery (p) 

(ms) 

10913/86 erection of stables at Newmarket constabulary barracks (vs) 

10922/86 urinal near Custom House, Eden Quay (vs) 

10923/86 parliamentary questions and replies, 1886 (interesting) (m) 

10926/86 examination of county surveyors assistants, example (vs) 

10943/86 Kingstown Harbour, new rules for berthing of vessels (+ gorgeous 

letterhead for Dunleary coal merchant) (ms) 

56

OPW5 – 10949/86 – 13699/86 

10949/86 mound of earth on back road, Phoenix Park (vs) 

10963/86 mortgage loan £1000, Dublin improvements (s) 

10964/86 Public Health Loan, £7400, Dublin (s) 

10966/86 dues on vessels in port, six weeks, Kingstown Harbour, Dublin Port (vs) 

10999/86 Donaghadee PLU, note on loan (vs) 

11000/86 Fore national school-teacher’s residence, inspections etc (p) (s) 

11006/86 Cashel glebe, Co Longford, loan (s) 

11011/86 Athlone eel fishery, lighting lamps (vs) 

11023/86 erection of paling at Kinsale harbour (vs) 

11027/86 Victoria Lock, Shannon Navigation, report on works, 1885 (s) 

11036/86 note on annual estimates, 1887-88 (vs) 

11430/86 specification for dwelling house and offices, Dingle peninsula (ms) 

12159/86 specification for extension of east and west piers, Passage East, prices etc 

(ms) 

13528/86 Dunmore harbour, sale of holding (ms) 

13640/86 Borrisokane national school, note by parish priest (vs) 

13651/86 Castlecomer and Athy tramway: inquiries, analysis, loan etc (vg) (m) 

13653/86 Ballybrody and Rathdowney tramway and light railway, reports etc (m) 

13658/86 Banteer-Newmarket light railway (usual) (ms) 

13659/86 Shillelagh-Scarawalsh light railway, enquiries etc (m) 

13699/86 Royal Canal, footbridge, Maynooth (lovely plan) (vs) 

OPW5 – 11563/86 – 13697/86 

11563/86 Grange national school, Cork, erection (p) (ms) 

11603/86 Drumsna Railway Bridge (crossing River Shannon) & Athlone swivel 

bridge, 1849-85 (p) (ml)* 

11770/86 Science and Art Museum (& NLI), bills and general correspondence (m)* 

11950/86 Rahavarrig national school teacher’s residence (s) 

12084/86 Leabgarrow boat slip, Arranmore, Co Donegal, 1866-85 (p) (ms) 

12285/86 Cleggan Pier – note (vs) 

12484/86 foreshore rights at Union Hall (vs) 

12790/86 Museum of Science and Art (& NLI), legal documents (vs) 

13387/86 Mellifont Abbey, problem in respect of building stone (vs) 

13697/86 donation of two gold pins from Mellifont Abbey to RIA (s) 

OPW5 – 14012/86 – 15175/86 

14012/86 specifications for Loughshinny pier, contract (s) 

14196/86 Carna, Recess teacher’s residence and Mynish (notes) (s) 

14384/86 Drumshambo national school, replacement (site plan) (s) 

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14513/86 finishing work at Tyrone national school (vs) 

14549/86 new Dublin theatre, ‘The Lyceum’, Board of Works regulation re fire, 

architect’s visit to 

London Office of Works (m) 

14952/86 Local Government Board loan, notes, Enniskerry water supply (s) 

15054/86 Kingstown Harbour buoy shed, Irish Lights, 1873-86 (m) 

15175/86 House of Industry hospital (s) 

OPW5 – 15286/86 

15286/86 Mulkear drainage, 1860-1880s (vvl) 

OPW5/87 

87 Piers and Roads Commission/OPW: requisition for tools and materials 

(contracts etc), for various works in West of Ireland (shop letterheads etc) 

(vl) 

87 Piers and Roads Commission/OPW: requisitions continued (with excellent 

report on dynamite purchases etc (m) 

OPW5 – 404/87 – 882/87 

404/87 Tory Island national school, enclosing site (vs) 

882/87 (pt 1) Royal University, Earlsfort Terrace, time and materials forms, George 

Moyers, contractor, Dec 1885-June 1886 (work done weekly) (l) 

882/87 (pt 2) Royal University, additional buildings and alterations, Soady v Moyers 

(court case), bill of quantities, list of fittings (vl) 

OPW5 – 542/87 

542/87 Tipperary PLU, Labourer’s Acts loan, maps and plans (bound volume) 

OPW5 – 882/87 (pt 2) – 3201/87 

882/87 Royal University: specifications and tenders, accounts etc (vl) 

3024/87 specification for teacher’s residence and national school, Ballyhackamore, 

Co Down (lovely plan) (s) 

3201/87 Museum of Science and Art, Treasury sanction for alterations to dome (p) 

(s) 

1054/87 Glenamaddy PLU sewerage works, loan £70 (vs) 

58

OPW5 – 882/87 (pt 3) 

882/87 (pt 3) Royal University, Earlsfort Terrace, excellent misc material, lists, 

deviations, extras, minor works listed (l) 

OPW5 – 3386/87 – 6416/87 

3381/87 OPW comments on Land Improvement bills, 1885 etc (ml) 

3386/87 Irish loans services arrears, prosecution by Lane Joynt, Treasury Solicitor 

in Ireland, 1877-87 (vl) 

3604/87 Lackan pier, Mayo, land for approach road, purchase (m) 

5607/87 land agreement on Ulster Canal (s) 

5620/87 Clonmeen teacher’s residence, East Cork, agreement (vs) 

5723/87 Kilrush pier, damage to schooner, ‘Pacific’ (s) 

5752/87 Malin Head pier, Co Donegal, land for approach road (m) 

5891/87 national monuments: report of Deane on monuments scheduled (2 

photos/2 sketches) (s) 

6416/87 civil service cricket club, protection of property (s) 

6020/87 Seafield Pier, case of JC Maguire, clerk of works, aggression from men 

dismissed (s) 

OPW5 – 8005/87 – 9346/87 

8005/87 Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford railway award (s) 

8033/87 Ballina-Killala railway, arbitration (qg) (s) 

8300/87 notes on various railway and tramway schemes (s) 

8650/86 arbitration – Cavan, Leitrim, Roscommon light railway company (l) 

9144/87 newspaper accounts of annual reports, 1887 (s) 

9175/87 Shannon Navigation Act, 1885, 1885 parliamentary report on Shannon 

Bill (printed: in library?) (l) 

9346/87 Pims premises abutting Dublin Castle (s) 

OPW5 – 9474/87 – 10218/87 

9474/87 Schull & Skibbereen railway, notes (s) 

9672/87 Howth harbour, letting of premises, erection of buildings, notices to quit 

etc (exct plans etc) (l) 

9685/87 Kinsale harbour, Kilcolman strand, claim of Mr Tandy (m) 

10038/87 letting of land on canal bank, Athlone (s) 

10105/87 Gurtnabine national school, Co Kerry, enlargements (s) 

10218/87 Curragh of Kildare, deputy ranger’s house, repairs etc, 1878-89 (m) 

59

OPW5 – 10380/87 (pt 1) 

10380/87 (pt 1) Arklow harbour improvements (vl) 

OPW5 – 10380/87 (pt 2) 

10380/87 (2) Arklow harbour improvements (vl) 

OPW5 – 10464/87 – 13775/87 

10464/87 non-vested schools, Galway, loan (s) 

10948/87 caretaker in Land Commission buildings, Merrion Square (m) 

10504/87 Kilnascariff mill premises, Shannon Navigation (s) 

10666/87 Ardmore Church, erection of tombstone (vs) 

10736/87 conflict between BOW loans department and Irish Fisheries 

Commissioners (m) 

11210/87 Tallagh harbour, Mayo (vs) 

11246/87 loan fund note (vs) 

11323/87 Grange national school residence, Cork (m) 

11378/87 Newry portal inspection office, rent (nice plan) (s) 

11685/87 Loughnamore national school, Mayo, construction (m) 

13775/87 Upper Morning Star drainage district, Limerick (includes beautiful plans 

of several bridges) (s) 

OPW5 – 13029/87 – 15024/87 

13029/87 Letterkenny railway correspondence (m) 

13039/87 Clonakilty extension railway (m) 

15024/87 Bandon PLU arbitration (labourers cottages) (m) 

Box 57 

25602 

OPW5 - 3130/88 – 6434/88 

3130/88 plans for Ballyhackamore national school, Belfast (BOW & 

another), 1887-88 (s)* 

3777/88 obstruction in channel, Kildysart harbour, Shannon navigation, 

1884-88 (s)* 

4198/88 complaints about condition of Arklow harbour, 1885-88 (s) 

4528/88 engineering report on proposed Bray-Enniskerry tramway etc, 

1886-88 (s)* 

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4842/88 tracings and reports on Arklow harbour, 1888 (s) 

5338/88 construction of Museum of Science and Art, Kildare St (mostly architect’s 

alterations), 1887-88 (l)* 

5642/88 erection of pier at Goleen Creek, Clare, 1876-88 (1905) (m) 

6048/88 various works at Rosslare coastguard station, storm damage, 1887-88 (m)* 

6387/88 building of Ballycotton harbour, Cork, 1884-88 (l) 

6434/88 lights at Royal Harbours: question of dues payable, 1888 (s)* 

Box 58 

25604 

OPW5 – 6877/88 – 12098/88 

6877/88 labourers dwellings: loan to Wm Hall, Clonliffe Rd, Dublin (specs, 

drawings, reports etc), 1884-88 (m)** 

6493/88 improvements to Arklow harbour, 1886-88 (L) 

7528/88 missing ornamental cross from Kilmalkedar, Kerry & reports on other 

monuments in Kerry, 1886-88 (s)** 

8079/88 works at Cleggan pier: boundary fence problem, 1887-88 (s) 

8463/88 Museum of Science and Art: appt of qty surveyors, 1884-88 (L)** 

8842/88 process of loan to Clogher Valley Tramway Co. (security issues 

etc), 1886-88 (L)* 

8870/88 repair of towpath at Balls Grove, Boyne Navigation, 1887-88 (s)** 

8898/88 report on condition of Killiney church & burial ground, repairs etc, 

1887-88 (s)** 

8954/88 erection of boat-house and slip at Crookhaven coastguard station 

(drawings etc), 1886-89 (m)* 

10290/88 proposed works at Rosslare harbour (plans, newspaper cuttings etc), 1884- 

89 (m)*? 

12098/88 Abbey of Rathmore, Athboy, Meath: Dunsany happy to let BOW work on 

it, reports 1878-88 (s)** 

Box 59 

25605 

OPW5 – 11246/88 – 13474/88 

11246/88 labourer’s acts: loan to Navan Union, 1887-88 (s)** 

12164/88 reports on Mellifont Abbey, preservation works considered, 1888 (s)** 

12911/88 loan for labourer’s dwellings to Thomas Ferguson of Banbridge (applic, 

mortgage deeds etc), 1872-88 (m)* 

13076/88 Shrule drainage district: application for awarded money to BOW, 1867-88 

(s) 

13111/88 BOW and claim against Southern railway, state loans, conveyances, 1882- 

88 (m)*? 

61

13335/88 application by Johnstone of Bawnboy for loan for labourer’s dwellings, 

Golden Lane etc, Dublin (plans, specs, reports etc), 1883-88 (m)** 

13460/88 applic for loan for teacher’s residence, Dromore, Cork (plans, specs, 

reports etc), 1886-88 (s)** 

1374/88 construction of Port Oriel harbour, Clogher Head, Louth, (excellent maps 

going back to 1827, coloured and black-and-white), 1827 contract by Thos 

Carolin, documents of 1840s, 1873-84 (mostly 1873-78 works), (L)*? 

Box 60 

25603 

OPW5 - 16154/88 – 16378/88 

16154/88 coastguard query about constable/warden governing care of boatslip at 

Kilkee, Clare: BOW statement/notice of rules & laws publicly posted, 

1888 (s)* 

16173/88 construction of Seafield fishery harbour, Clare, contractor failed, 1885-88 

(simple plans) (m)*? 

16252/88 progress of loan applic for teacher’s residence, Cloneen, Longford (repts 

etc) 1888-89 (s)* 

16378/88 building of Inisbofin pier, Galway, under Sea Fisheries Act, 1885-89 

(m)*? 

Box 61 

25993 

OPW5 - 74/89 – 1041/89 

74/89 repairs to St Colmcille’s House, Kells, Meath, 1889 (s)** 

92/89 building of Carrowmore pier, Galway (Sea Fishery Act), 1881-89 (m)*? 

Loan applic for teacher’s residence, Gurteen, Longford, suspicion of fraud 

(good stuff), 1888-89 (m)* 

1041/89 construction of Lackan Pier, 1880-89 (plans, specs, reports, misconduct of 

superintendent), (L)*? 

Box 62 

OPW5 – 1090/89 

1090/89 maps, plans, correspondence relating to loans for labourer’s dwellings, 

Limerick PLU, 1883-88 (large ledger) (m)* 

Box 63 

25606 

62

OPW5 - ?/89 – 15432/89 

?/89 particulars and conditions of sale, River Fergus sloblands, 1889-91 

(rentals, maps, info), relates to failure of Clare Slob reclamation company, 

1889-91 (s) 

2782/89 does to be killed and distributed to poor, Phoenix Park, March 1889 (s)* 

3055/89 financial workings to compromising legal dispute with Lefroy Mills, out 

of Shannon vote, 1889 (s) 

3342/89 letting of Port Island, Leitrim, Shannon Navigation, for grazing goats, 

1886-89 (s) 

3730/89 Ballinascarty & Timoleague light railway: commencement order of privy 

council, expenses of undertaking, loan approval, report on engineering 

merits, tracings), seems abandoned partially in the end, 1884-89 (m)*? 

5229/89 board of trade storehouse used by coastguard for boats, Wicklow (tracing), 

(2)* 

8095/89 complaints about access to St Audeons, Dublin, 1889 (Scott with Mellon) 

(s)* 

8550/89 Approval problems with Lough Allen fish pass, Shannon Navigation, 

1889 (m)*? 

9489/89 City of Dublin junction railways, loan, arbitration: company reluctant to 

pay, 1888-89 (m)*? 

10429/89 removal of ogham stone, calls for works, at Claragh Church, Kilkenny, 

1889 (s)* 

11054/89 reports on Rock of Cashel, site of caretaker’s lodge, vesting orders, etc, 

1876-89 (m)** 

11321/89 loan for teacher’s residence, Clondara, Longford (beside Richmond 

Harbour), 1888-89 (good reports, plans etc) (m)** 

12123/89 report on rentals by OPW on Shannon Navigation, 1889 (s)* 

13104/89 loan applic (£9000) for West Donegal light Railway: forms, plans, charts, 

correspondence (1884-89) (m)* 

15432/89 Shannon improvement works/bill and effects on Killaloe slate quarries, 

1871-89 (m)*? 

Box 64 

25992 

OPW5 –12337/89 

12337/89 briefs and other official documents in case of Taylor, Brown, Brown v 

Wm Soady of BOW, over withholding payment to contractor in 

Greystones pier, Easter Sittings, 1889 (seems BOW lost case, perhaps get 

newspaper report) (1886-89) (m)*? 

OPW5 – 506/90 – 5071/90 

63

506/90 Kenmare Extension Railway (O.S. maps) (vs) 

1497/90 Ballyduff national school, Waterford (p) (s) 

1725/90 Carlingford national school teacher’s residence (p) (s) 

1889/90 St Andrew’s, Bray, national school teacher’s residence (p) (s) 

2038/90 Cleggan Pier works, 1880-90 (incl plans from 1830s) (p) (m) 

4095/90 Light Railway Acts, 1889, OPW reports (m)* 

4986/90 Passage West national school, non-vested schools (s) 

4990/90 national education buildings, dairy school, Marlborough St (s)* 

Dooraha national school, Clare (p) (s) 

5071/90 Manorcunningham glebe loan (np) (s) 

OPW5 - 5093/90 – 6612/90 

5093/90 Drumrora national school Cavan, male and female teacher’s residence, (s) 

5499/90 examination etc for assistant-engineer, 1874-90 (s)* 

5563/90 Greystones Harbour, costings for pier and dock (ms) 

5727/90 insurance for Science and Art buildings (ms) 

5610/90 Castleconnell eel fisheries (vs) 

5627/90 Carrickfergus Harbour, repayments by Harbour Commissioners, problems, 

1886-90 (m) 

5738/90 Shannon drainage, Lough Allen works, payments to contractors (s) 

6032/90 Glasheen drainage, increased rents, Savage French estate (s) 

6165/90 Granard male national school-teacher’s residence, Longford (s) 

6335/90 St Joseph’s national school, Magherafelt, Londonderry (p) (s) 

6346/90 Queen’s Warehouse, Custom House, laboratory, defects in water supply 

(s)* 

6612/90 Mount Pleasant national school, Mayo (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 6639/90 – 15813/90 

6639/90 Glandore pier, progress reports, 1877-1881 (m) 

6755/90 Rock of Cashel, mainly correspondence respecting caretaker (s) 

9081/90 misc correspondence (& sketches) on ancient Irish structures and on 

Monuments bill (ms) 

10977/90 Greystones Harbour, ‘detention money’ case (ml) 

11393/90 Mullingar post office and constabulary barrack, site/plans (m) 

15119/90 national teacher’s residences: general correspondence (m)* 

15813/90 St Flannan’s church, Clare, works etc (ms) 

OPW5 – 2396/91 – 3964/91 

2396/91 Shannon drainage, Killaloe distress (s)* 

2627/91 Baltimore Extension Railway, works 1888-90 (m)* 

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2694/91 Shannon drainage, rebuilding of Galliagh Bridge, 1888-90 (m)* 

3091/91 report of commissioners of inquiry into Collooney Light Railways, 2 

schemes (ms) 

3801/91 Great Southern & Western Railway – accounts and conveyances (s) 

3964/91 Letterkenny-Dunfanaghy Light Railway: inquiry and award etc (ml)* 

OPW5 – 8273/91 

8273/91 bound volume (probably Labourer’s Act award schedule) (m) 

OPW5 – 4562/91 – 13772/91 

4562/91 Dublin-Lucan Tramway Co: repayment of loan of £10,000, 

correspondence (vg) (ms)* 

7622/91 Collooney-Claremorris Railway, reports and inquiries etc (vg) (ms)* 

7625/91 Light Railways: supply of engines etc – note (2pp) 

7626/91 Achill Extension Railway, invitation to tender (bits) (ms)* 

8810/91 Kinsale Harbour award file, mainly correspondence respecting loan and 

repayment (m) 

8962/91 Nobber drainage: maintenance by trustees (m) 

9827/91 Mallaranny-Achill Sound, light railway extension, reports etc (g) (s)* 

11342/91 Killorglin-Valenia Railway, culvert schedule etc (ms) 

13772/91 Midland Great Western Railway, Kilcock canal bridge, works (s) 

OPW5 – 18504/91 (pt 1) 

18504/91 Lough Erne drainage – general works, reports etc (vl) 

OPW5 – 18504/91 (pt 2) 

18504/91 (pt 2) Lough Erne drainage, works, reports etc (vl) 

OPW5 – 745/92 – 8325/92 

745/92 Balbriggan Harbour, general file, arrears on loan of 1868 (ms) 

2950/92 Donegal-Killybegs Extension Railway, tenders for rails etc, contracts 

(plans, drawings, advertisement photos) (m) 

4882/92 Holycross Abbey: alleged vandalism (s) 

6604/92 Collooney-Claremorris Railway, various financial aspects (s) 

6945/92 Moyour Drainage District – note (2pp) 

7413/92 Ballinamore-Ballyconnell Drainage District, arrears of rate (s) 

65

7658/92 increased rents, Erne Drainage District, Fermanagh estate (ms) 

7956/92 Lough Neagh Drainage – rate (vs) 

8325/92 Wexford Custom House, leases, deeds, indentures etc and correspondence 

(m) 

OPW5 – 8433/92 – 12317/92 

8433/92 Lough Erne drainage – legal question re appointment of increased rents 

(s)* 

8614/92 drainage case – Anthony Maude, Enniskillen (vs) 

8549/92 Cashen River Drainage District award (ms) 

8639/92 North Mayo Railway: Ballina-Killala (- Belmullet), reports etc, distress 

appeal, 1890 (ms)* 

8735/92 appointment of clerk of works, Belfast RIC barracks (s) 

9430/92 Lough Erne drainage – apportionment of rates (ms) 

9458/92 Rathangan River Drainage District, restoration tenders (s) 

9620/92 drains in Mullingar County RIC barrack (vs) 

9633/92 ventilation problem in Dublin courts (vs)* 

9647/92 Greenans national school teacher’s residence, Mayo (vs) 

9970/92 estimates drafted for 1892-93 (s) 

9978/92 Lough Erne Drainage District, increased rent cases (ms)* 

9982/92 Lough Erne Drainage District, increased rent cases (ms)* 

10053/92 Lough Neagh drainage – trustees meeting (landed proprietors) (s) 

12317/92 Killaloe toll-keeper, Shannon Navigation, apparent resignation (s)* 

OPW5 – 12871/92 – 20065/92 

12871/92 Lough Erne drainage – increase of rent on estate of Earl of Erne, 

completed forms (l) 

13107/92 Labourer’s Dwellings Act, Midland Great Western Railway Co, 

application for erection of forty houses at different places along the line, 

rejected as houses not to be constructed in town, re-application with 

discussion of case (ms)* 

13480/92 appointment of GA Stevenson as OPW commissioner, breakdown of 

Board responsibilities (s)* 

13685/92 Kingstown Harbour and Isle of Man steamers, issues (s)* 

13762/92 note on Holycross Abbey (vs) 

14702/92 note on Lough Neagh Drainage District (vs) 

14818/92 Galway-Clifden and other Light Railways, OPW galvanized huts used for 

works, JC Barton hired by OPW to supervise works by other engineers on 

lines (lots bits) (vg) (m)* 

14850/92 Donegal Railway, engine contracts (vs) 

14907/92 increase in rents, Lough Erne drainage, Aug 1891-Sept 1892 (check 

newspapers??) (s)* 

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15373/92 Cashen River Drainage District, increased rents (ms) 

15457/92 Ballinrobe-Claremorris Light Railway deviations (vs) 

15742/92 Mitchelstown PLU, loan for village water pump (vs) 

15971/92 West Donegal railway shares (vs) 

17904/92 sale of landholdings and question of drainage charge in Lough Erne (vs) 

19783/92 Killybegs Exten Railway, station buildings & gate lodges, reports, specs 

etc (np) (ms)* 

20065/92 Baltimore Extension Railway (Wm Martin Murphy), reports, inspections, 

works etc (m)* 

OPW5 – 973/92 – 7923/93 

27/93 5-6 Ely Place, General Valuation Office, tenure file, 1865-94, memos on 

repairs, works and reports (m) 

974/93 Bandon and South Coast Railway Company – note (1p) 

1267/93 engineer turntables, West Donegal Railway (1p) 

5445/93 Tramore drainage – note (1p) 

(5550/93) – drainage charge on constabulary barracks, Enniskillen (vs) 

5564/93 Lough Oughter & Gowna, Erne Drainage District – questions (vs) 

5665/93 Lough Erne drainage – note (vs) 

5904/93 Sow Drainage District note (vs) 

5905/93 Bonmahon rocket cart house, repairs (np) (s) 

5927/93 Erne Drainage District – legal issues (s) 

6230/93 Stranorlar-Glenties Railway, purchase of land (s) 

6526/93 Erne Drainage District note (vs) 

6583/93 Achill Extension Railway, inventory of stores etc (vg) (s)* 

6749/93 Rinn & Blackriver Drainage District – maintenance, footpasses (sketches!) 

(vg) (ms)* 

6868/93 Bantry PLU, Labourer’s Act loans, arbitration (ms) 

7020/93 Birdhill national-school teacher’s residence, Tipperary (s) 

7814/93 Skibbereen waterworks, arbitration (ms) 

7923/93 Ballinamore-Ballyconnell Navigation (s)* 

OPW5 – 7985/93 – 9961/93 

7985/93 George Campbell Spaight v Board of Works (PJ Tuohy), over accusations 

of damage to Limerick fisheries (m)* 

8386/93 Hoar Abbey, Cashel, works etc (ms) 

9091/93 Phoenix Park bandstand, erection, works, tenders etc (p) (m)* 

9961/93 Lough Erne drainage (vl) 

OPW5 – 10539/93 – 17844/93 

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10539/93 Arklow Harbour, construction of North Groyne (ml) 

10640/93 arbitrations, Labourer’s Acts (volume) (m) 

11159/93 Shannon Navigation, fish passes, alterations etc (p) (ms)* 

11165/93 arterial drainage Shrule district, meeting of proprietors (s) 

11429/93 Galway harbour (vs) 

11607/93 Ballyteigue and Kilmore Drainage District trustees (s) 

12947/93 Lough Neagh Drainage District, certificate of apportionment (ms) 

13966/93 Phoenix Park cattle grazing (s) 

14110/93 Blackrock township improvements, widening main street and Carysfort 

Avenue (p) (s) 

17039/93 Lough Gara and Mantua Drainage District – note (vs) 

17394/93 Greystones Harbour works (ms) 

17844/93 Dublin-Wicklow-Wexford Railway Bill (s) 

Box 65 

25999 

OPW5 – 97/94 – 1809/94 

97/94 loan application for construction of Cashel town hall, local memorial 

opposed and process stopped by Treasury, 1893-94 (s) 

100/94 arbitration overseen by BOW in case of Edenderry PLU building 

labourer’s dwellings under the Acts (maps of land to be used), 1893-94 

(s)*? 

322/94 Schull PLU labourer’s dwellings, arbitration award, 1893-94 (award, 

maps) 

394/94 parliamentary question about possibility of BOW intervention to lengthen 

CDB pier under construction at Kilcar, Donegal, 1894-95 (s)* 

5541/94 Ballinamore & Ballyconnell drainage district: maintenance rate query, 

1894 (s) 

557/94 slates and fencing damaged during storm at Ballyheigue cg station, Jan 

1894 (1)* 

723/94 arterial drainage of River Cam, Westmeath, consent of landlord, 1894 (s) 

892/94 Boyne drainage maintenance, query of local board respecting removal of 

mill weirs etc, under 1855 Act (s)* 

1359/94 objection of Sligo PLU guardians to part of arbitrator’s expense claim 

(Edward Murphy), enclosure of burial ground, 1892-94 (plans, award: 

compulsory purchase) (s)* 

1402/94 Lough Oughter & Erne arterial drainage: problems over payment of 

maintenance rate, 1893-94 (s)* 

1562/94 objection of Lisnaskea farmer to payment of drainage rate, Lough Erne 

drainage, 1893-94 (s)* 

1563/94 refusal of requisition for mantelpiece clock for room in parl secretary’s 

dept, 1894 (s)* 

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1809/94 loan for erection of Glebe residence, Killeigh, near Tullamore, Rev Jas 

O’Beirne PP, question of supplemental loan (specs, award, drawings, 

maps), 1891-94 (m)** 

Box 66 

25614 

OPW5 – 1857/94 – 2784/94 

1857/94 correspondence respecting loan for Portglenone glebe, PJ Hamill PP, 

1877-94 (m)* 

2216/94 Fermoy PLU, Kilcrumper burial ground, arbitration award, Joseph Abbott 

(awards, nice plan of improvements) (s)* 

2466/94 proposed encroachment on royal canal for platform for MGWR line, 

BOW accept request, 1893-94 (nice tracing) (s)* 

2487/94 Waterford corporation, labourer’s dwellings, loan application (mortgages) 

& release of loans, 1894 (s)* 

2524/94 cork corporation: applic for loan for construction of sewerage & 

conveniences, 1893-4 (s)* 

2632/94 Ballymoney PLU, labourer’s dwellings order, arbitration award (some 

discussion of Murphy), 1893-94 (s)* 

2638/94 appt of trustees to Ballinamore & Ballyconnell drainage district, Jan-Feb 

1894 (s)* 

2732/94 loan & supplemental loan to Clogheen PLU, labourer’s acts, 1888-94 (s)* 

2784/94 loan for teacher’s residence, Derryclough national school, (payment 

failure), 1889-1923 (drawings, maps) (m)* 

Box 67 

25616 

OPW5 – 2881/94 – 3808/94 

2881/94 complaints by river traders agt the Barrow Navigation Company, tolls on 

manure, responsibilities of the BOW (Company charter: 1822, toll 

schedule 1820s, parl papers of 1810-12), 1863-94 (m)* 

3148/94 difficulties progressing loan application for lighthouse at Castlehaven near 

Castletownshend (revenue estimates too low), 1891-94 (m)* 

3415/94 Frankford river drainage: increases of rent to holdings on Banon estate, 

1875-94 (m)* 

3722/94 arbitration schedule/award (Joseph Abbott) in Rathkeale PLU purchase of 

land for labourer’s dwellings, 1893-94 (m) 

3808/94 memorial for loan to build working class houses in Newtownards, Walker 

& Co. irritated by small amount of loan offered etc, 1890-94 (m)* 

(Now here) 

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Box 68 

25615 

OPW5 – 3849/94 – 6018/94 

3849/94 grant for improvement (enlargement) to Ballintogher national school, 

Sligo (plans, drawings, specs), 1892-94 (s)* 

4303/94 Labourer’s order, Dundalk PLU, arbitrator’s award, 1893-94 (s) 

4375/94 Clodiagh drainage district, Co. Tipperary, disputes over demands for 

increased rent, 1881-94 (m)* 

4420/94 donation/loan by BOW to Dept of Science & Art of Pugin pencil drawing 

of Maynooth College, 1893-94 (s)* 

4555/94 Greystones harbour works: BOW argue weak confidence in contracting 

out such work and secure Treasury agreement to their case (tracings), 

1890-94 (m)* 

4606/94 inquiry into purchases late in financial year by architectural dept of OPW: 

question of absorbing balance of vote, 1894 (s)* 

4965/94 dispute over payment by landlord on Upper Inny of drainage annuities to 

OPW, 1894 (s)* 

5303/94 Deane estimates need for supporting work on Trim castle, 1893-94 (s)* 

5322/94 grant for construction of Banada national school (Sligo) (specs, drawings), 

1886-94 (s)* 

5346/94 loan of £980 to Clonmel bd guardians for labourer’s cottages, 1893-94 

(s)* 

5356/94 sale of Cork estate in Chancery: query as to BOW charges on the title, 

1894 (s)* 

5399/94 approval of BOW for change in toll schedule at Portsalon Pier, Donegal, 

1894 (s)* 

5537/94 fuss and bother over OPW/RHK regulations restricting vehicular and other 

traffic through grounds of Royal Hospital Kilmainham, 1875-95 (m)* 

5608/94 complaints that Lough Allen works caused flooding in Annagh townland, 

denied by BOW, reports by Crosthwait, 1894 (s)* 

6018/94 loan for glebe residence, Murham, Drumshambo, Leitrim (house 

purchase) (tracings), 1893-94 (s)* 

Box 69 

26000 

OPW5 – 6084/94 – 7819/94 

6084/94 problems administering Moy Navigation loan, conflict between Scurmore 

and Little fisheries, anxieties over safety of Stoney’s sea walls being 

constructed, BOW involvement respecting superintendance of loan, 

engineering reviews, 1872-94 (l)*? 

6413/94 Castlecomer PLU, arbitration award under labourer’s order (Joseph 

Abbott), 1894 (s) 

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6468/94 surveyor’s report on Sheanna endowed school, Rathdrum, Co Wicklow, 

duty of repair, 1893-94 (s)* 

7234/94 questions raised about participation of JC Woodruffe (architect?) in Cork 

County Club in interests of avoidance of contractual favouritism, advised 

to move district, 1894 (s)* 

7650/94 Pembroke township commissioners, loan under public health act for check 

water meters and laying water main in Shamrock Avenue, sanctioned by 

Charles Cotton for the LGB, 1893-94 (s)* 

7427/94 Carrick-on-Shannon PLU, documents authorizing BOW loan on basis of 

approval of LGB, to purchase lands and build accommodation, 1893-94 

(s) 

7771/94 documents relating to case of Harris & La Touche versus Suck Drainage 

Board occasioned by flood damage of 1890 & 1891, BOW closely 

interested and provided documentation to court (good inquiry case report 

with much info.), 1893-94 (m)* 

7819/94 correspondence respecting loan for erection of teacher’s residence, Derroe, 

Kilcummin parish, Galway (maps, plans, specs), 1893-94 (s)* 

Box 70 

25617 

OPW5 – 7939/94 – 10530/94 

7939/94 BOW loan to grand juries of Wexford & Kilkenny for building of New 

Ross bridge, reduction in rate of interest, sale of old bridge/ferry, grant-inaid 

towards new bridge, compensation arbitrations by Fishbourne (of 

Ashfield Hall, Carlow), problems over valuation by Fishbourne of 

property owned by New Ross Bridge Commissioners, 1868-71 (claims of 

quit rent office renewed, 1893-94), (l)*? 

8462/94 Strokestown drainage district, apportionment of maintenance rate to 

proprietors, 1894 (s) 

Lough Gara & Mantua drainage districts, survey of benefits to Rathtorman 

td, 1894 (s) 

8468/94 erection of iron signal stations near Blacksod Point coastguard station, 

1890-94 (m)** 

8521/94 arbitration award of Joseph Abbott (111 St Stephen’s Green) respecting 

sale/purchase (?) of military lands beside Buttevant barracks, 1894 (s)*% 

9271/94 loan for curate’s residence & reconstruction of parochial house at 

Monasterevan (architect: William Hague) (plans, tracings, maps, specs), 

1880-94 (m)** 

10530/94 Cork, Bandon & South Coast Railway, arbitration schedule, Joseph 

Abbott, 1894 (m) 

Box 71 

25618 

71

OPW5 – 12292/94 – 13504/94 

12292/94 complaints about neglect by Mulkear Drainage Board, 1891-94 (s)* 

11646/94 Mitchelstown PLU, loan & supplemental loan documentation completed 

under Labourers Order, 1884 (m)*? 

11586/94 regulations (treasury circulars with commentary) on restrictions on civil 

servants serving on district or parish councils or as directors in civil 

service bank, 1888-94, (s)* 

11286/94 New Ross PLU, loan documentation completed under Labourers Order, 

1888 (s)*% 

11239/94 grant for building and enlarging national schoolhouse, Drumcollogher, 

Limerick (plans, drawings, maps, specs), 1883-94 (m)** 

10860/94 appeal to BOW to intervene to improve part of Strokestown drainage, 

rejected as maintenance matter, 1894 (s)** 

10543/94 loan for building of dispensary residence, Galbally, (LGB order) (specs, 

drawings), 1893-94** 

12567/94 building of pier at Loughane/Gerahies Reef, Bantry Bay, Cork, under Sea 

Fisheries Act & later problems arising when repairs needed (BOW not 

liable) (plans), 1881-94 (m)* 

12703/94 loan & supplemental loan for building dispensary residence at Scrabby, 

Granard PLU, (LGB & BOW) (map, drawings, specs), 1889-94 (m)** 

12738/94 Mohill PLU, loan documentation completed under Labourers Order, 

March 1894 (s) 

13076/94 problems over construction of fish pass at Ballinasloe under orders of 

Suck Drainage Board & later rate arrears by farmer with intervention by 

local TD, 1894-1938 (s)** 

13288/94 prevention of illegal removal of gravel & shingle at Greystones harbour, 

1893-95 (s)* 

13504/94 Cavan PLU, loan documentation completed under Labourers Order, Nov 

1888 (s)*% 

Box 72 

25619 

OPW5 – 13556/94 – 14515/94 

13556/94 Mullingar PLU, loan documentation under Labourer’s Order of Oct 1893, 

1893-94 (s)*% 

13574/94 permission granted by BOW to John Strangman to lay sewage pipes into 

Dunmore harbour, 1894 (s)* 

13877/94 Dungolman drainage, apportionment of maintenance rate, certified, 1894 

(s) 

14132/94 Navan PLU, loan documentation under Labourer’s Order of Sept 1890 (s) 

14145/94 objection of proprietors to formation of Morning Star Drainage District, 

1894 (s)* 

14461/94 North Dublin PLU, arbitration schedule of compensation, 1894 (m) 

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14507/94 Youghal PLU, loan documentation under Labourers Order, Oct 1893 (s) 

14515/94 question of provisional control of Gresham Gardens (owned by OPW) by 

the Royal Marine Hotel, Kingstown, 1861-94 (m)*? 

Box 73 

OPW5 – 14525/94 – 15426/94 

14525/94 Erne drainage district, final award apportioning incidence of maintenance 

rate, 1894 (s) 

Borrisokane PLU, loan documentation under Labourers Order, Sept 1886 

(s) 

14615/94 Macroom PLU, loan documentation (mostly indentures) under Labourers 

Order, Nov 1889 (s)*% 

14618/94 query from guardians to tenant farmer’s family after his decease: question 

of requirements under Land Improvement Acts, 1894 (s)* 

15113/94 Carlow waterworks, arbitration schedule, 1893-94 (s) 

15206/94 lease and rental management of Cork Customs Bonded Stores (repair of 

cranes): property management issues, 1881-94 (l)* 

15426/94 Kilmallock PLU, loan documentation under Labourers Orders, 1885 (s)*% 

Box 74 

OPW5 – 15519/94 – 17508/94 

15519/94 papers relating to management of Sligo, Leitrim, & Northern Counties 

Railway, 1892-94 (m)* 

15641/94 arbitration award (Wm Prendergast) in purchase of lands under Military 

Lands Act 1893, for Marlborough & Beggars Bush barracks, 1894 (some 

bits on arbitration payments) (s)* 

15646/94 loan for erection of glebe for Rev Archibald Robinson, Presbyterian 

minister, Broughshane, Antrim, (tracked to deed of release) 1873-94 (s)* 

17062/94 arbitration schedules awarded in respect of proposed Loop Line, Dublin 

(Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford Railway Company), difficulties over 

payments to arbitrator (George Posnett), 1888-94 (m)* 

17508/94 closure of Maynooth harbour, Royal Canal, in 1861, with consent of 

Board of Control, reports on the canal in the 1850s and 1860s 

(Forsyth/Boylan), dispute over water levels in 1864 (death of James 

Boylan ce on 13 th July 1869), 1857-69, 1894 (m)** 

Box 75 

26001 

OPW5 - 1174/95 – 4671/95 

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1174/95 returns of staff membership of Board of Works required for proceedings 

under Govt of Ireland Bill, 1893-95 (s)** 

2321/95 arbitration schedule awarded in petition of Dundalk PLU under Labourers 

Order, 1894 (s) 

arbitration schedule in respect of extension to Claremorris by Athenry & 

Tuam railway, (some complaints) 1891-95 (s)*% 

arbitration re compulsory purchase by town commissioners of lands for 

Kingstown cholera (infectious diseases) hospital (maps, schedules), 1894- 

95 (s)*% 

3102/95 application for loan to build teacher’s residence, St Mary’s NS, Mayo 

(title problems), 1895 (s)* 

3563/95 objections to Suck Drainage Award: proprietors seeking info on objectors, 

1895 (s)* 

4467/95 Consolidated final notice to tenants in Chancery sale of estate of Cornelius 

Swiney, Ballincollig, Cork, with query as to BOW charges, 1895 (s) 

4509/95 arbitration schedule/final award (Wm Prendergast) in case of 

Blackrock/Kingstown drainage, 1895 (m) 

4671/95 Question of Dublin Corporation seeking access to govt buildings within 

municipal boundary for purposes of valuation (related to allegations that 

govt property undervalued and pays little tax), refused access, 1894-95 

(s)* 

Box 76 

25622 

OPW5 – 4740/95 – 5547/95 

4740/95 White’s Lane improvement scheme, Dublin Corporation, loan under Act 

of 1890 (working class housing), documents & correspondence 1893-95 

(m)* 

4924/95 arbitration schedule awarded (Joseph Abbott) in case of land purchase by 

Cork, Bandon & Sth Coast Railway, 1895 (s)*% 

4985/95 Borrisokane PLU, arbitration schedule in case of land purchase under 

Labourers Acts/Order, May 1894 (m)*% 

4992/95 Appeals for reduction of interest on loan awarded for works at Tralee & 

Fenit harbour: denied (soundings charts, loan accounts, , 1889-95 (m)* 

5071/95 loan application for presbytery at Bonane, Kilcashin parish, Kenmare for 

Rev Mangan PP (architect: J Townsend Trench), (plans & specs), 1885-95 

(s)* 

5149/95 loan for construction of teacher’s residence, Kilmore national school, 

Galway (defects in construction, local bog-slide), 1891-1930 (m)* 

5312/95 application by Rev John Ryan PP for loan to build glebe at Aghada, Cork, 

(maps) 1892-95 (m)* 

5547/95 loan application for erection of teacher’s residence, Shannonbridge male 

national school (drawing, map), 1880-95 (s)* 

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Box 77 

26002 

OPW5 – 5631/95 – 5853/95 

5631/95 construction and repair of boat-slip & breakwater at Port Ochre (St John’s 

Point), Donegal, under Sea Fisheries Act (tracings, drawings), 1881-95 

(l)*? 

5674/95 correspondence relating to transfer of ownership, in 1854, of Carlingford 

harbour to grand jury of County Louth, 1895-96 (s) 

5672/95 petition for erection of stone pier at Labasheeda, Kildysart, on River 

Shannon, 1880-95 (s)*? 

5679/95 construction of Bunowen coastguard station, Galway (Connemara), (plans, 

maps), 1866-95), (l)*? 

5773/95 loan for erection of national teacher’s residence, Trinity NS, Taghmon, 

Wexford, (specs, plans, maps), 1893-95 (s)* 

5788/95 National Monuments: correspondence with Ordnance Survey office 

relative to preparation of plans, 1893-95 (s)** 

5790/95 Abbeyleix PLU, loan for provision of well & pump at Ballinlough under 

Public Health Acts, 1895 (s)* 

5853/95 complexities of hiring short-term assistance (Gaelic editor, Richard 

O’Duffy), completing Suck Drainage Award when Penny falls ill, 1894-95 

(s)** 

Box 78 

25620 

OPW5 – 5877/95 – 6142/95 

5877/95 deviations in grant-aided construction of Dungiven national school, Derry, 

(specs, drawings etc) 1891-95 (l)** 

5924/95 repairs and improvements to Green St courthouse, under Public Works 

loan (& parl speech on Phoenix Park by Tim Healy), 1883-95 (l)* 

5942/95 prosecution of Shinrone Drainage Trustees for imperfections of channel 

deepening beside Bunnow bridge leading to flooding (relief works 

c.1881), 1884-95, 1900 (l)*? 

6056/95 works executed at Loughshinny pier, Balbriggan (proposed commercial 

harbour), 1894-95 (s)* 

6112/95 grant-aided construction of Callan national school, Kilkenny, 1892-95 

(m)* 

6142/95 finding site for construction of Roundstone coastguard station, Galway, 

(compulsory powers of 1889 cf letter of 15 th June 1891 and earlier letters: 

great site purchase/lease problems) 1886-95 (l)*? 

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Bundle 78a 

OPW5 – 6062/95 

6062/95 book of plans for labourers cottage scheme, Kilmallock PLU, 1884 

(m) 

Box 79 

25621 

OPW5 – 6152/95 – 64931/95 

6152/95 public health loan (£200) to New Kilmainham township, for concreting 

footpaths, 1894-95 (s) 

6195/95 Ballymahon PLU, loan (£895) documents completed under Labourers 

Order Oct 1889, 1894-95 (s) 

6203/95 loan for construction of Lashinny glebe (RC), for Rev John Kelly (map), 

1875-95 (m)** 

6258/95 Ennis PLU, arbitration schedule (Joseph Abbott) in purchase of land for 

labourer’s cottages, under Order of 1893 (nice map), 1895 (s)*% 

6312/95 grant and loan towards construction of new national school, Mungret, 

Limerick, (specs, plans), 1880-95 (s)* 

6313/95 loan for erection of teacher’s residence, Moycarky national school, 

Tipperary, (specs, standard plans) 1893-95 (s)*? 

6379/95 difficulties in formation of Morning Star Drainage District, evaluation of 

liabilities of farmers and landlords, rent increases, 1892-95 (m)*% 

6462/95 employment of lamplighters for certain govt buildings in Dublin under 

BOW care, duties, pay, changes etc, 1881-1922, (m)** 

6493/95 Jurisdiction of BOW in case of graveyards, part of vested national 

monuments, coordination of burial regulation with county grand juries, 

1893-95 (m)** 

Box 80 

25623 

OPW5 – 6536/95 – 7882/95 

6536/95 failure to approve proposed improvements to Ballymakenny national 

school, Louth, 1894-95 (m)* 

6853/95 arbitration schedule awarded (Wm P Prendergast, 8 Royal Marine Rd, 

Kingstown) in case of Pembroke town commissioners, in purchase of 

lands for refuse destructor 

7283/95 loan (£250) for erection of teacher’s residence, Strokestown Convent NS, 

(misuse of building) 1882-95 (m)* 

7350/95 Baltinglass PLU, supplemental loan (£60) perfected for labourers cottages, 

under Lab Order July 1887, 1887-95 (s)* 

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7351/95 Baltinglass PLU, further supplemental loan (£40) for labourers cottages, 

under Lab Order Dec 1886, 1894-95 (s) 

7409/95 loan for construction of Reenturk national school, Kerry, (plans, specs), 

1867-95 (s)* 

7464/95 final award (Joseph Abbott) in respect of Killan Drainage (delays), 1891- 

95 (s)* 

7639/95 correspondence relating to Waterford & Limerick railway bill, BOW 

evaluation of clauses etc, 1892-95 (m)* 

7727/95 additions and improvements to Ballinabranna national school, Carlow 

(plans, specs, tracings), 1892-95 (m)** 

7876/95 John Sheridan plants statue of St Patrick on hill of Tara, 1892-93 (s)* 

7881/95 Clonmel PLU, perfection of mortgage for supplemental loan (£125), under 

Labourers Order, Dec 1887, 1895 (s) 

7882/95 Kilkenny PLU, indentures and perfected mortgage for several 

supplemental loans (to £500) under Labourers Order, Sept 1887, 1894-95 

(s) 

Box 81 

26003 

OPW5 – 79261/95 – 10043/95 

7926/95 Kells PLU, perfected deeds of mortgage for loan of £800 to build 

labourers cottages (in Moynalty & Mullagh etc), under Order of July 

1890, 1890-95 (s) 

8256/95 Delvin PLU, perfected deeds of mortgage/indentures for loan of £2970 to 

build 18 houses in several eds, under Order July 1894, 1894-95 (s) 

8712/95 election of members to Stoneyford Drainage Board, 1895 (s) 

8850/95 Ballymena PLU, perfected deeds of mortgage for loan of £600 to build 4 

cottages, under Order June 1894, 1894-95 (s) 

8980/95 requisition for repairs to Glantane national school, Cork, June 1895 (1) 

9071/95 Celbridge PLU, perfected deeds of mortgage for loan of £5980 to build 41 

houses, under Order May 1894 (s) 

9457/95 Skibbereen PLU, perfected deed of mortgage for loan of £60, to set up 

pump at Castletownshend, under Public Health Acts, 1895 (s) 

9587/95 Lurgan town commissioners, perfected mortgage for loan of £2000, for 

completion of waterworks, under Public Health Acts, 1895 (s) 

9630/95 arbitration schedule award (Edmund Murphy, 81 Pembroke Rd) under 

land purchase by Midland Great Western Railway, (m) 

9779/95 Mallow PLU, perfected mortgage for loan of £569, to build labourer’s 

cottages (delay due to contractor’s default), under Aug 1887 (m)*% 

9788/95 danger & damage caused by blasting in quarry leased to Collen Bros, 

Howth, 1895 (s)*? 

9830/95 Londonderry corporation, perfected mortgage for loan of £860 to provide 

cattle-market weighbridge, gas plant, water main, to widen footpaths, 

1895 (s)*% 

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9856/95 arbitration award in land purchase to build waterworks in Clones (award, 

map), 1895 (s)*% 

10043/95 arbitration (Wm Prendergast) in case of widening of John’s Lane, Dublin, 

on behalf of Dublin Corporation, 1895 (s)*% 

Box 82 

OPW5 – 10072/95 – 12875/95 

10072/95 surveys and reports on works carried out on ancient structures on Dingle 

peninsula (espec Dunbeg Fort, 1886-95 (l)** 

10763/95 correspondence relating to matter of private entrances to Phoenix Park 

(espec Lord Iveagh & Annaly: proposed new arrangements), 1832-95 

(m)** 

11959/95 arbitration (Joseph Abbott) in case of compulsory purchase of lands for 

teacher’s residence, Tobergal (near Boolavogue), Enniscorthy, Wexford, 

under Irish Educ Acts of 1892 & 1893, 1894-95 (m)*% 

11970/95 Ballinskelligs Abbey, Kerry, vesting as national monument & repairs to 

sea wall, 1880-95 (l)** 

12412/95 Tralee town commissioners, arbitration award (Joseph Abbott), for 

compulsory purchase of land for building new road, 1894-95 (m) 

12613/95 National Monuments; new interments at Rock of Cashel, Hoar Abbey, 

curtailed under LGB order, 1895 (s)** 

12875/95 Dungarvan PLU, arbitration award (J Abbott) under Labourer’s Acts, to 

build cottages, 1894-95 (s) 

Box 83 

26004 

OPW5 – 15226/95 – 18147/95 

15226/95 Collooney-Claremorris railway: land claims, compensation, 

accommodation works, fencing, contracts, 1891-95 (l)** 

17232/95 arbitration (Wm Prendergast) in respect of land purchase for Rathmines 

waterworks, under Rathmines & Rathgar township act of 1893 (schedules, 

maps) (m) 

18147/95 repairs, inspections, appointment of caretakers for monuments on Aran 

Islands (drawings, watercolour painting of O’Brien’s Castle), 1884-95 

(m)** 

OPW5 – 177/96 – 749/96 

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177/96 tenants on Suck drainage (s) 

226/96 Rush coastguard station, Martello tower, repairs and responsibility (War 

Office), 1885-96) (s)* 

231/96 Suck drainage: exhibition of final award by OPW, 1895 (s) 

281/96 amalgamation of Great Southern and Western Railway with Waterford- 

Limerick-Western Railway: OPW analysis and comments (m)* 

394/96 light railways: expenditure breakdown 1889-1896 (s)* 

601/96 Roscrea waterworks, arbitration by Joseph Abbott (s) 

602/96 Rosegreen national school teacher’s residence (s) 

744/96 OPW seeking loan from Treasury for £20,000 to cover preliminary 

expenses under Railways Act (Ireland) 1896 (s)* 

746/96 Viceregal buildings: gate lodge (fire insurance) (s) 

749/96 South Clare Railway: reports of baronial audits & OPW comments (s) 

OPW5 - 899/96 – 1640/96 

899/96 Delvin PLU: cottages under Labourer’s Acts, award of arbitrator (Wm 

Murphy) (m) 

1807/96 Killenadreena national schoolteacher’s residence, arbitration (compulsory 

purchase of site) (ms) 

1090/96 Mellifont Abbey (WA Scott), repairs and works, 1879-96 (np) (m)* 

1227/96 Blackrock town commissioners: loan for working class housing (s) 

1432/96 proposed Carrigaline and Crosshaven railway extension (nice ad!) (s) 

1602/96 Clifden PLU – Clifden waterworks loan (plans! etc) (vg) (s)* 

1640/96 Ballinasloe order for labourer’s cottages (loan) (s) 

OPW5 – 1913/96 – 2558/96 

1913/96 transfer of second class clerks from one dept to another and annual 

increments due to HP Boland (s)* 

1960/96 Howth harbour: sale by auction of store of Mr McKenny: good interesting 

correspondence partly on economy and fishing trade (m)* 

2217/96 Killybegs pier: problems with Congested Districts Board, excellent 

discussion (plans) (ml)* 

2345/96 proposed works at Blackrock pier, Louth (plans and good OS map) (s)* 

2495/96 St Mary’s national school, Haddington Road, Dublin, improvements, usual 

file (m) 

2555/96 Mulkear drainage problem for farmer (vs)* 

2558/96 Loan £2000 Killarney asylum, electric lighting and drainage (s) 

OPW5 – 2658/96 – 3182/96 

79

2658/96 Suck drainage application for loan instalments (excellent – on works 

carried out by OPW, 1893-96), (vl)* 

2790/96 release of lands on estate of Charles Knox (Mayo), from land 

improvement charges, for purposes of sale – query – sanctioned (s) 

2962/96 Mountmellick PLU, loan for sinking well and erecting pump - £240 (s) 

2983/96 Kilkenny PLU – cottages under Labourer’s Acts, loan £895 (u) (s) 

3098/96 Westport & Belmullet light railway, loan not sanctioned (s)* 

3114/96 Valencia glebe, Kerry, 1875-96 (s) 

3135/96 Ordnance Survey Office, warrant officer’s quarters (plans) (ms)** 

3182/96 Dungarvan town commissioners, loan £630, waterworks (s) 

OPW5 – 3220/96 – 3970/96 

3220/96 Belmont national school teacher’s residence (s) 

3244/96 loan for addition to Enniscorthy asylum (s) 

3284/96 Cappoquin glebe (beautiful plans) (s) 

3287/96 loan for artisan’s dwellings, John McNally, Lurgan (s)* 

3290/96 Newcastle PLU, labourer’s order, arbitration (s) 

3352/96 Baronial audit reports, Tralee & Dingle railway (s)* 

3373/96 Omagh PLU, labourer’s cottages, £240 (s) 

3400/96 acquisition of Aldborough House for station for DMP, proposed (exct 

discussion) (s)* 

3413/96 Athlone PLU: labourer’s houses (s) 

3425/96 Galway-Clifden railway, first grant instalment (s) 

3504/96 Old Head coastguard station, signal hut, specs etc (s)* 

3672/96 Dundalk PLU, loan for labourer’s cottages (s) 

3681/96 Strokestown PLU, loan for labourer’s cottages (s) 

3970/96 establishment: Walsh and Cochrane as clerks – personnel files & account 

of workings of Loans Division (s)* 

OPW5 – 4523/96 – 5416/96 

4523/96 loans for building lunatic asylums: general correspondence (s)* 

Carlingford pier – construction etc (m)* 

4662/96 Lisnagirl national school residence, arbitration compulsory purchase (m) 

4788/96 Longford PLU: labourer’s cottages, loan and award (m) 

5416/96 Shillelagh PLU: labourer’s cottages, arbitration schedule (s) 

OPW5 – 5433/96 – 6054/96 

5433/96 Dublin Corporation – loans £5000 & £1200 for underground 

urinals and sewerage (s) 

5522/96 Letterfrack national school residence, Galway (BOW1) (qg) (s) 

80

5541/96 Waterford corporation, loan £800 waterworks (s) 

5547/96 Clondrohid glebe, Cork (p) (s) 

5606/96 Working class housing loan, correspondence on provision of shops 

and subletting (s)* 

5664/96 loans for workhouse buildings: general correspondence, 1870s-90s 

(m)** 

5714/96 establishment: register of land loans and special payments to four 

clerks (s)* 

5729/96 Botanic Gardens: boundary wall (s)* 

5993/96 letting Queen’s Excise stores (s) 

6054/96 Galway: Cashla/Carraroe railway – proposal and analysis (m)* 

OPW5 – 6117/96 – 6319/96 

6117/96 Smithstown national school, Kilkenny (s) 

6187/96 Seed Act 1890: repayments – general file correspondence (s)* 

6224/96 Tyromoyle national school teacher’s residence (BOW1), (u) (s) 

6238/96 Colooney-Claremorris railway – certs and inspection (m)* 

6255/96 Termonfeckin glebe, loan £800 (nice plan) (s) 

6260/96 Limerick working class housing (u) (s) 

6292/96 extension of Dingle light railway to Ventry pier (ok) (s) 

6314/96 artisan’s dwelling loans: terms of repayment – general 

correspondence (vs)* 

6319/96 R Parke applying for loan for working class housing, Monaghan 

(vs)* 

OPW5 – 6321/96 – 6648/96 

6321/96 Cashel town commissioners: housing working classes (s) 

6360/96 Jonesboro national school, Armagh (plan) (s) 

6486/96 Fermoy PLU loan, labourer’s cottages (s) 

6496/96 Emly glebe, Tipperary, haybarn (beautiful plan) (s) 

6514/96 St Columcille’s national school, Swords, Dublin (plan) (g) (ms) 

6517/96 Green Coat hospital national school teacher’s residence, Cork, 

improvements (plan) (s) 

6540/96 North Dublin PLU, loan for erecting labourer’s cottages, 

Blanchardstown (s) 

6585/96 Carrickmacross PLU, labourer’s cottages (s) 

6648/96 Broadford national school teacher’s residence, Kildare (lovely 

plans) (g) (ms) 

OPW5 – 6664/96 – 6863/96 

81

6664/96 Clontarf Commissioner’s loan, improving road (s) 

6704/96 Portrane coastguard station: erection of boathouse & wash-house 

(plans) (m)* 

6813/96 Callan PLU: loan labourer’s cottages (s) 

6832/96 Kingstown harbour: the ‘small harbour’, removal of old slip 

(sewage works) (m)* 

6836/96 Moyvore & Forgrey glebe, Westmeath, lots (plan) (s) 

6840/96 Rathdrum PLU loan for sewerage works – award etc (s) 

6863/96 seniority list of second division clerks (vs)* 

OPW5 – 6865/96 – 7329/96 

6865/96 Edenderry PLU: loan under Labourer’s Act, award schedule (s) 

6867/96 Limerick harbour – reduction of tonnage dues, pleading with OPW 

(m)* 

6871/96 Warrenpoint town commissioners, loan £100 for building urinals 

(s) 

6875/96 Magherafelt PLU: loan £1100 under Labourer’s Acts (s) 

7025/96 Ballymahon PLU, loan under Labourer’s Acts (s) 

7026/96 Ballymahon PLU, loan £146, Forgney improvement scheme, 

Labourer’s Acts (s) 

7054/96 Roscommon PLU, loan £107, sewerage extension, Roscommon 

town (s) 

7148/96 Dowth moate (nat mons), Meath (np) (s)* 

7170/96 Magherafelt national school, Derry (beautiful plans) (s) 

7258/96 Cork PLU, loan for labourer’s cottages (s) 

7329/96 Newcastle PLU, loan for labourer’s cottages (s) 

OPW5 – 7335/96 – 8764/96 

7335/96 William Moore, Back St, Irvinestown, working class housing (corr, 

intg case) (np) (s)* 

7558/96 Wexford post office, excellent construction file (lots plans) (m)* 

8145/96 Derrygoolin national school residence, arbitration/compulsory 

purchase (s) 

8499/96 Royal Dublin Society: new lecture theatre (includes Museum work), corr 

and financial notes (np) (m)* 

8828/96 Portobello barracks extension – arbitration award in land purchase (s) 

8592/96 Lough Erne drainage: case re drainage rate non-payment, nice legal 

prosecution forms (s)* 

8597/96 Dalkey township commissioners, loan £730, flagging and kerbing, 

footpaths and widening and improving convent road (s) 

8764/96 Cork PLU, loan £2530, for construction of reservoir at Parkgariffe in 

connection with Glenbrook waterworks (s) 

82

OPW5 – 8529/96 – 9339/96 

8529/96 Fair wages cases and legal claims, 1892-96: brilliant file on labour 

problems (ml)* 

8571/96 Bigstone national school, Kildare (construction) (s) 

8580/96 Roundstone coastguard station, alterations and ‘relief works’ (people see 

govt works like that) (exct) (s)* 

8890/96 Dundalk PLU, award schedule for land purchase under Labourer’s Acts 

(s) 

8920/96 Glanmire Upper national school residence, Cork, arbitrations (cp) (s) 

8992/96 Light Railways and Tramways: reports of county surveyors, replies to 

grand juries (vs)* 

9292/96 Dundrum asylum: emoluments of assistant physician (ie supplies of 

furniture) (plan) (ms)* 

9298/96 repairs and supply of furniture for Cashen River coastguard station, Kerry 

(vs)* 

9321/96 Longford Methodist glebe (specs etc) (np?) (s) 

9339/96 Cashen River coastguard station, Kerry, original construction by James 

Higgins Owen, OPW architect, in 1864-65 (specs, plans) and renewal of 

lease in 1890s (m)* 

OPW5 – 9381/96 – 10238/96 

9381/96 Kilcock Drainage Board (s) 

9422/96 Kilmihil glebe, Clare (usual) (s) 

9433/96 BOW remove obstructions at Belleek Quay for steamboat (of Grey Porter) 

(vs)* 

9470/96 discharge of loans by Belmullet PLU (vs) 

9506/96 apparent site plan for glebe (?) (1p) 

9528/96 Listowel PLU, loan £50 for ‘disinfecting apparatus at the workhouse’ (s) 

9569/96 Arklow harbour: loan instalments, correspondence (s) 

9644/96 Tullylease church, Cork (nat mons), St Breachtaine’s Cross, vesting 

process (sketches, large tracings) (s)* 

9988/96 Schull & Skibbereen Light Railway – committee management order (s) 

10004/96 proposed improvements to Burtonport pier (g) (s) 

10108/96 Thurles PLU, loan £2280 under Labourer’s Acts (s) 

10222/96 Rathkeale PLU, loan under Labourer’s Acts (s) 

10238/96 Limerick Inland Revenue stores and garden lettings (Roche’s Buildings) 

(bits) (ms) 

OPW5 – 10356/96 – 10541/96 

83

10356/96 Midleton town commissioners, working class housing, loan £3250, legal 

issue appears (s)* 

10395/96 Ballycotton pier, repairs and maintenance issues, harbour constable 

(sketch) (m)* 

10399/96 Kilrush pier, loan £46, supply of water to Mullagh village under Public 

Health Act (s) 

10400/96 Kilrush PLU, loan £75, enclosing Farrihy burial ground (s) 

10445/96 Kingstown Harbour: extra pay claimed for working on Sunday (rejected) 

(vs)* 

10449/96 Sutton coastguard station, work on well and pump (1p) 

10463/96 Fermoy PLU: Kilworth waterworks, loan, beside Moore Park (p!) (s) 

10541/96 Greystones coastguard station, alterations and additional windows made 

(p) (s) 

OPW5 – 10547/96 – 11121/96 

10547/96 Feenish island national school, Galway (BOW plans), problems arising 

during inspections (s) 

10550/96 Cahirciveen RIC barracks, water supply (np) (s)* 

10805/96 Kinsale Custom pier, access to pier by Customs officers (interesting 

sketches and plans, bridge etc) (s)* 

11121/96 Stranorlar PLU: arbitration award, Labourer’s Acts (s) 

OPW5 – 11835/96 – 13987/96 

11835/96 Baltinglass PLU, award under Labourer’s Act (m) 

12174/96 Dunkellin Drainage Board, 8 th Sept 1896 (vs) 

12409/96 Midland Great Western Railway Acts, 1894, Westport-Mulranny Railway 

(Newport termination: award (s) 

12727/96 Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway (s) 

13060/96 Royal Commission on Ireland-UK financial relations since 1800 

(interview with Sankey and BOW statements) (s)* 

13446/96 Suck drainage award, appeals (excellent) (s)* 

13665/96 Galway harbour: diver needs to extract piles at dock gates (s) 

13912/96 Killybegs pier extension, payments to Mr Dixon the contractor – problems 

over delays (s)* 

13987/96 Dunmore East harbour: naval maneuvers, training ship anchors offshore 

(s)* 

OPW5 – 14234/96 – 15341/96 

14234/96 Lorrha Drainage Board file (m) 

14331/96 Complaints about Westport-Achill train service (g) (s)* 

84

14651/96 Public Health and Dispensary loans: general correspondence (ms)* 

14977/96 Strabane-Londonderry & Donegal-Ballyshannon extension bills: OPW 

analyses (m)* 

15258/96 Working staff in St Stephen’s Green (s)* 

15230/96 fees for consulting architects acting for Board of Control for Lunatic 

Asylums (s)* 

15341/96 Ardglass harbour – powers of constable dealing with various matters, 

byelaws, scale of tolls (m)* 

OPW5 – 15371/96 – 15576/96 

15371/96 Graham’s of Portadown, loan for working class housing, extensive 

financial correspondence (s)* 

15437/96 Gowleen Ross harbour, Clare, repairs etc (construction, work-sheets, 

progress reports from 1880-82) (plans) (ms)* 

15493/96 allowances for office cleaning under OPW (s)* 

15506/96 loan for rebuilding bridge in Wicklow (s) 

15521/96 Suck drainage – complaint about rates from rundale tenant (vs)* 

15565/96 regulations as to occupancy of teacher’s residences (s)* 

15572/96 Suck drainage – rundale tenant case (s)* 

15574/96 Drogheda Customs house: claim of caretaker (s)* 

15576/96 Law Library, Four Courts, extensive discussion of remodeling (specs, ext 

plans) (ml)** 

OPW5 – 15648/96 – 16223/96 

15648/96 Suck drainage: case of Dominick Mee – boundary dispute complaint (s)* 

15713/96 Mullingar PLU, loan £4950 under Labourer’s Acts, awards etc (s) 

15717/96 Suck drainage - complaint (ok) (s)* 

15719/96 Suck drainage – case of wrong name on award schedule (s) 

15720/96 Black river (Templemore) – forming an arterial drainage district (s) 

15725/96 Lough Neagh drainage district – case of aggrieved farmer (s) 

15746/96 Suck drainage – complaint (s) 

15780/96 Dunmore national school residence, Galway (s) 

15932/96 Sea and Coast Fisheries Fund, stock consols management (s) 

15940/96 Monasterboice dispensary (usual) (lovely plans) (s) 

15981/96 Suck drainage: rate complaint case (s) 

16021/96 Suck drainage – rundale complaint case (vs)* 

16139/96 Shillelagh PLU, loan £640, arbitration award (s) 

16195/96 ? (missing) 

16207/96 Callystown national school residence, arbitration award (s) 

16223/96 Dunmore drainage district: certificate of apportionment (s) 

85

OPW5 – 16043/96 – 16679/96 

16043/96 Phoenix Park, new lodge, fencing in People’s Garden (s)* 

16195/96 Greystones harbour, taking sand from there for OPW building works in 

Dublin (p) (s)* 

16275/96 Mungret national school residence, Limerick (s) 

16280/96 G.R. Williams, loan for housing working classes, Sligo (much 

correspondence) (np) (ms)* 

16331/96 Suck drainage – rundale problem, default (s)* 

Bredagh Glen national school, Donegal, construction (s) 

16335/96 Letterkenny-Gweedore light railway, financial analysis etc (m)* 

16386/96 Kinsale harbour – dues on pickled fish issue (s) 

16439/96 Baltinglass PLU, loan £840, labourer’s cottages (s) 

16608/96 Lough Neagh drainage, schedule of apportionment (s) 

16679/96 Waterford- Wexford railway, value of bonds (s) 

OPW5 – 16792/96 – 17364/96 

16701/96 Nesbitt’s Bay pier, Donegal (location being sought) (s) 

16730/96 Manisternacalliagh/Old Abbey, Shanagolden, Limerick, vesting as 

national monument (sketches) (s)* 

16750/96 Queenstown town commissioners, loan for electric lights, OPW query 

solvency (m) 

16792/96 Hill of Tara (nat mons), vesting and proposed excavation (s)* 

17364/96 Ballycastle railway, sale of OPW interest in the line and earlier 

management of loan arrangements (m)* 

OPW5 – 73/97 – 531/97 

73/97 Waterford-Wexford railway bill examination (also Fishguard-Rosslare) (s) 

79/97 Clontarf & Hill of Howth tramway bill (s) 

97/97 plan of Buncrana railway station (vs) 

164/97 Quin Abbey, Clare, caretaker looking for new locks (s)* 

203/97 Keenagh Drainage Board – special works called for (m)* 

204/97 Sligo, Leitrim, Northern Counties Railway: BOW management of loan 

finances etc (s) 

217/97 Londonderry improvement bill: comments on powers over building 

construction (g) (s)* 

218/97 Londonderry town hall, loan £13000 to Irish Society (lovely plans) (ms)* 

231/97 Kinsale harbour, various minor improvements authorized by BOW (s)* 

265/97 annual estimates for railways, Ireland, 1883, 1889 (s)* 

496/97 Rathmines, Dundrum, Blackrock District Tramways, BOW engineering 

inquiry (s)* 

531/97 St Stephens Green, duck killed by dog, case got for stuffed duck (ms)* 

86

OPW5 – 532/97 – 1759/97 

532/97 Glendalough: reports on repairs, new memorial cross erected, new bridge 

(plan) etc (ms)* 

604/97 RDS new lecture theatre (Leinster House), detailed correspondence, specs, 

quantities (np?) (ml)* 

810/7 breaking glass in People’s Garden, Phoenix Park (soldiers throwing stones 

from Royal Infirmary) (s)* 

971/97 Killala round tower, protection (plan), priest v Deane argument (s)* 

1079/97 national monuments: order of progress on repairs due on various sites (s)* 

1627/97 City of Derry Tramways (‘animal power’) (s) 

1759/97 Cavan, Leitrim, Northern Counties Railway & Ballinamore/Ballyconnell 

Navigation (mostly rebuilding locks or bridges on navigation if railway 

goes ahead) (m)* 

OPW5 – 1878/97 – 3218/97 

1878/97 expenditure on Stephen’s Green and Phoenix Park (s)* 

2794/97 letting of pavilion in Phoenix Park (several plans) (s) 

2985/97 lighting fire for children’s picnic in Phoenix Park, permission granted (s)* 

3038/97 Malinmore & Glencolumbcille monuments inspected (s)* 

3065/97 Vice-regal lodge: farm offices & lodge (plan of warrant officers lodge, 

O.S.) (lots maps, plans) (ml)* 

3186/97 Shannon Navigation: complaint against collector at Tarmonbarry, not 

taken seriously by OPW (vs)* 

3218/97 Ballina-Killala Railway, misc papers on construction and sale (qg) (m)* 

OPW5 – 3700/97 – 6447/97 

3700/97 reporters to be invited to future BOW functions (s)* 

4097/97 ruins on Holmpatrick Island: vesting proposal (s)* 

4098/97 Private Secretary’s Lodge (Phoenix Park), maintenance (wallpaper) (s)* 

5225/97 Kinsale harbour – repayments and explanation for excess cost of 

completed works (ms)* 

5845/97 Chief Secretary’s gardens – plantings etc (lovely plans) (m)* 

6394/97 water supply to Rose Cottage and Ordnance Survey (Mountjoy barracks), 

water quality testing & typhoid cases (ms)* 

6447/97 St Stephen’s Green wild-fowl – reports, orders etc (ml)* 

OPW5 – 5046 (pt 1) 

87

5046/97 Lough Erne drainage (and navigation district) (vvl) 

OPW5 – 5046 (pt 2) 

5046 (2)/97 mass of documentation on Erne drainage, including 1891 Commons 

Report (vvl) 

OPW5 – 7090/97 – 7705/97 

7090/97 East Clare railway – various aspects of management (s)* 

7109/97 Killala, Ballycastle, Belmullet Light Railway, proposal and inquiry etc 

(vg) (s) 

7497/97 Kingstown Harbour – Carlisle pier – raising platform – works and 

proposals by Mail Packet Company (tracings) (ml)* 

7545/97 Letterkenny Railway – markets, complex financial stuff, original 

construction correspondence (ml)* 

7705/97 instructions to caretakers – development of standard forms, 1892-97 (s)* 

OPW5 – 446/98 – 1755/98 

446/98 St Mark’s national school, Dublin, (nice designs) (m) 

852/98 Abbeyleix PLU – labourer’s cottages loan £195 (m) 

1481/98 Donoughmore extension, light railway inquiry etc (m)* 

1515/98 Cavan, Leitrim Railway: general file on baronial audits (ms)* 

1755/98 Drogheda waterworks – loans and arbitration award (s) 

OPW5 – 1898/98 – 2858/98 

1898/98 Kilmallock PLU – award schedule Labourer’s Acts, row over arbitrator’s 

fees (g) (bits) (m)* 

1909/98 Drogheda Gas Company Bill (s) 

2067/98 Kingstown harbour – Dalkey property/quarry, property management 

(bits?) (ml) 

2227/98 Science & Art buildings, Sir Robert Stevenson memorial statue, 

correspondence and erection (np) (s)* 

2231/98 National Library and School of Art: damage to wall at rear of Royal 

College of Physicians, new roadway being built (np) (s)* 

2289/98 Dublin Castle – Record Tower, construction of SPO (np) (ms)* 

2840/98 Housing of working classes, four houses at Convoy, Donegal, by John 

Weir (g) (s)* 

2846/98 Ross brothers, Belfast, loan for housing working classes (nice headed 

notepaper) (s)* 

88

2850/98 refusal of loan for erection of school for congregational purposes (2pp) 

2858/98 complaint as to bad state of Glencorrib national school, Tuam (1p) 

OPW5 – 2861/98 – 3129/98 

2861/98 Louisburg national school, Mayo (s) 

2865/98 cleaning and winding clocks in schools not the duty of BOW (vs) 

2885/98 Ballinadrummy glebe, Kildare, loan for erection (vg) (s)* 

2982/98 curate’s house, Ballybrack, Dublin (drawing) (s) 

Annadown national school, Galway (BOW plan) construction (s) 

3000/98 establishment; retirement of Mr Berry, superintendent Kingstown Harbour 

(s)* 

3065/98 Dublin Inland Revenue, stamping room alterations (Custom House) 

(lovely plan) (ms)* 

3110/98 Co Cork railways – baronial audits (s) 

3129/98 Arthurstown coastguard station, compulsory purchase, preliminary 

designs, work up to point of construction (ml)* 

OPW5 – 3221/98 – 5756/98 

3221/98 Achonry glebe, Bishop Lyster to purchase and renovate Edmundstown 

House (lovely plan) (s)* 

3389/98 Fenit customs accommodation, acquisition of site (m) 

3539/98 illustration of national monuments in BOW annual reports (s)* 

3556/98 notes on role of BOW in vesting of national monuments: Deane 

attempting to initiate process – frowned on (s)* 

4898/98 Carndonagh railway plans and specs – excellent inquiry, evaluation etc 

(ml)* 

5657/98 Edenderry PLU, loan of £2249 – labourer’s cottages (s) 

5734/98 Navan town commissioners, loan £6500, water-works (s) 

5756/98 Kingstown Harbour: case of ‘Mary Burnell’ (actually survey of mooring 

buoys) (s)* 

OPW5 – 6522/98 – 6690/98 

5812/98 Corderay national school, Leitrim, improvements (s) 

6154/98 Dunally national school residence (s) 

6273/98 Keeny national school, Cavan (erection) (s) 

6416/98 Dunmore East harbour: road maintenance (s)* 

6468/98 Dublin Corporation, loan £950, underground urinal North Circular Road 

(s) 

6485/98 Ballyburke national school, Mayo (Ballyglass) (s) 

89

Dublin Corporation loans c.£14000, in sum, concreting footpaths, new 

paving, repairing (s) 

6522/98 Rossduane national school, Mayo, improvements (BOW plans) (s) 

6540/98 List of pictures in Dublin Castle and Dublin public buildings (s)* 

6690/98 Holycross Abbey, repairs, maintenance etc (m)* 

OPW5 – 6705/98 – 7686/98 

6705/98 Clologue national school teacher’s residence, Wexford (BOW plans) (s) 

6809/98 Galway harbour, management of loan debt, 1895-98 (m) 

7266/98 Dugort pier, Achill Island (s)* 

7514/98 Watergrasshill glebe (lovely plans), specs etc (s) 

7520/98 Midleton PLU, loan £1000, supply water for Carrigtwohill (s) 

7596/98 Nenagh PLU, loan under Labourer’s Acts (s) 

7626/98 David Sherlock, Land Improvement Act, 1864, inspections (s)* 

7686/98 Cavan grand jury, loans for roads (presentment schedule, Spring 1898) (s) 

OPW5 – 7716/98 – 7875/98 

7716/98 Baltinglass PLU, loan £1540, under Labourer’s Acts (s) 

7726/98 Irish Land Commission, 24 Upper Merrion St, 1881-98, site purchase etc 

(ml) 

7730/98 Phoenix Park water supply, 1889-98 (ml)* 

7745/98 Waterville-Valentia Harbour railway, engineering inquiry (s)* 

7875/98 Lough Guile national school, Antrim (specs, lovely plans) (s) 

OPW5 – 7993/98 – 8833/98 

7993/98 Tullokyne national school, Moycullen, Galway, improvements (BOW 

plan) (s) 

8014/98 Clontarf town commissioners, loan £200 (s) 

8015/98 Clontarf LGB loan, paving water channels in St Lawrence Road (s) 

8144/98 Limavady PLU, Labourer’s Act loan, £680 (s) 

8235/98 Clontarf town commissioners, loan £2000, widening Strand road and 

constructing new water main (s) 

8421/98 Kinlough glebe, Leitrim, Revd Charles Flynn CC (lovely plans) (s)* 

8498/98 pilfering of boy-clerk in engineer’s office (2p)* 

8594/98 GHC Massy Dawson, water-works at Castlereagh House, Tipperary, Land 

Improvement Loan, £200 (s) 

8610/98 Kinsale harbour, financial management by OPW (ms)* 

8734/98 Balbriggan town commissioners, loan £1050, erecting town hall (s) 

8833/98 Burtonport Railway, original culvert schedules and detailed analysis of 

Letterkenny-Burtonport railway (lots on harvestmen) (m)* 

90

OPW5 – 894/98 – 9696/98 

8947/98 Listowel PLU, loan £300 to enlarge Knockanure burial ground (s) 

8981/98 Mullingar PLU, loan, working class housing (s) 

8988/98 Shannon Navigation, proposed repair Boyle landing place and channel 

buoys (s)* 

9323/98 glebe loan to Revd Marshall Clarke, Derry (s) 

9504/98 Athlone PLU, loan £300, works Carnamagh cemetery (s) 

9506/98 Howth harbour, stores 16 & 20, John McKenna leases (s) 

9532/98 Abbeyleix PLU, loan under Labourer’s Acts (s) 

9541/98 Clonmines Abbey (cowboy’s chapel), Wexford (nat mons), vesting 

wanted (lots of Deane tracings) (s)* 

9579/98 Ballycolliton Drainage Board, 1887-98 (lots works) (m) 

9696/98 Gortletteragh glebe, Leitrim (specs and plans) (qg) (s) 

OPW5 – 9807/98 – 10551/98 

9807/98 Labourer’s Acts (Ireland) loan service, detailed correspondence (ml)* 

10166/98 Achill viaduct (Sound bridge?), problems of contractor, Pat Sweeney 

(Corraun) (ml)* 

10305/98 Tralee town commissioners, anticipating loan repayment, corr (vg) (s)* 

10399/98 Thomastown PLU, loan £300, Labourer’s Act, arbitration awards (m) 

10400/98 Waterford sewerage loan (1p) 

10472/98 Lismore RDC, loan £350, water to Aglish district (s) 

10514/98 Finvoy glebe house (lovely plan, spec) (s) 

10551/98 Dunmanway PLU, loan £2500, Dunmanway waterworks (s) 

OPW5 – 10580/98 – 12025/98 

10580/98 Howth Carmen shelter outside BOW lands (s) 

10587/98 Carrickmacross PLU, loan £2700, Labourer’s Acts (s) 

10618/98 Limerick and general training colleges, enlargement loan discussion (g) 

(s)* 

10656/98 reply to GPO telegraph (vs) 

10661/98 Drumlohan cave, Waterford (nat mons), works carried out (s)* 

10725/98 Erne drainage district, complaint of inefficiency of Board (s)* 

10727/98 Limerick harbour, suspension of instalments (s) 

10772/98 drainage several forms (vs) 

10885/98 North Dublin PLU, loan £5090, Labourer’s Acts (s) 

11044/98 Shannon Navigation – dredging shoals, retirement of officer, survey of 

Shannon (plans etc) (m)* 

11338/98 Lough & River Erne Drainage Board, lots of rent arrears problems (ms) 

91

12025/98 St Patrick’s Park, Dublin, arbitration award (m) 

OPW5 – 11829/98 – 12122/98 

11829/98 Kinsale harbour, loan/dues management (vl) 

11832/98 Gortglass national school, Clare, erection (BOW plan) (s) 

11839/98 Gorey PLU, loan £600, Labourer’s Acts (s) 

11865/98 Ballynafeigh RIC barracks, Belfast, right of way and enlargement (nice 

plans) (ms)* 

11971/98 Ardee PLU, loan £450, Labourer’s Acts (s) 

12122/98 nov-vested Ballingarry national school, Limerick (s) 

OPW5 – 12590/98 – 13277/98 

12590/98 Lissycasey national school, Clare, improvements (s) 

12706/98 Kilteevan national school, Roscommon (usual erection) (s) 

12742/98 Kilronan national schoolteacher’s residence, Cork (nice plans) (s) 

12780/98 Nenagh sewerage works loan (s) 

12781/98 extension of sewers, Dundalk (vs) 

12807/98 Bantry PLU, loan £600, new Bantry waterworks tank (s) 

12817/98 slates blown off roof Keel coastguard station (1p) 

12819/98 flooding in museum basement, works done (vs)* 

12821/98 typhoid fever in Chapelizod RIC barrack (s)* 

13008/98 Ruan glebe, Clare, Richard Flannery PP (lovely plan) (ms) 

13016/98 Glin District School, water supply loan (ms) 

13020/98 Glenamaddy/Boyounagh glebe, out offices (plans etc) (s) 

13025/98 Lough Neagh Drainage cases (s) 

13068/98 Shelbourne national school, Kerry, improvements (s) 

13095/98 BOW encroachment on Royal Infirmary land, latrine pipes from People’s 

Gardens etc (s) 

13147/98 Dublin Corporation, loan £10,000, sanitation (s) 

13277/98 Athlone lock house, surrendered by BOW to landlord in order to build 

new official house, 1868-98 (s)* 

OPW5 – 12128/98 – 12755/98 

12128/98 Dunmore Harbour, letting to Georgesons, dispute & interesting problems 

(nice plans) (s)* 

12195/98 Cork post office, compulsory purchase of site & award (ms) 

12306/98 Royal Harbours: gen. Corr. on proposed transfers etc (really Donaghadee) 

(m)* 

12511/98 Kingstown Harbour – case of ‘Mary Burnell’, damaged 8 th Oct 1896 by 

broken buoy and discussion of BOW liability (s)* 

92

12755/98 Great Southern and Western Railway arbitration award (m) 

OPW5 – 13283/98 – 14254/98 

13283/98 Buncrana-Carndonagh Railway, specs, alterations (s) 

13328/98 Queenstown glebe (bishop’s house) (s) 

13349/98 Kilkenny probate registry, leaving place (ml) 

13406/98 Shannon Navigation: tree planting at Killaloe on spoil ground (lovely 

plan) (s)* 

13407/98 Glenboy national school residence, Leitrim (BOW plans) (vg) (ms) 

13418/98 house beside Phoenix Park, lovely sketch (s)* 

13706/98 Castleisland glebe, loan (usual) (m) 

13956/98 Newtown Cashel glebe loan (s) 

14108/98 Commissioner’s authority over harbour-master’s at Royal Harbours (s) 

14254/98 Stranorlar-Glenties Railway audit of accounts (s) 

OPW5 – 242/99 – 435/99 

242/99 St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, loan £5000 for new church by G 

Ashlin, specs (beautiful plans) (ms)* 

269/99 Drogheda PLU, loan Labourer’s Acts (ms) 

292/99 (pts 1, 2) Phoenix Park, early history, papers from PRO etc (p) (ml)* 

319/99 Moylough national school, Sligo (note) (vs) 

435/99 Royal Canal, reports and correspondence, 1889-1899 (ml)* 

OPW5 – 541/99 – 1165/99 

541/99 Dunmore East Harbour – dangerous footway, 1818 etc (p) (ms)* 

543/99 Tallow glebe, Waterford, loans etc (p) (m) 

584/99 amalgamation of Waterford-Limerick-Western Railway with Great 

Southern Western Railway: involvement and considerations of Board of 

Works (ms) 

(664/99) – Geoghegan’s photographs of National Monuments, magnificent 

listing with information (ms)* 

680/99 deferred pay (& pensions) in civil service, inquiry (BOW memoranda) 

(ms)* 

699/99 Dromore West PLU, loan under Labourer’s Acts (ms) 

736/99 restoration of Clonfert Cathedral (vs)* 

937/99 Ennis RDC, loan improvement schemes/Labourer’s Acts (m) 

1091/99 Shannon Navigation, Canal House, Limerick, tenure etc (ms) 

1165/99 Drumrock national school, works (ms) 

93

OPW5 – 1463/99 – 2868/99 

1463/99 Laghey national school, Donegal, usual (p) (m) 

1624/99 Ballinasloe PLU Health Act loan (vs) 

1626/99 Cootehill PLU, Labourer’s Loan (1p) 

1627/99 Kells PLU, Labourer’s Loan (ms) 

1685/99 Kildare water supply loan (map) (s) 

1792/99 Pickle Point Pier, contract file, spec. (D & C Stevenson, engineers, 

Edinburgh) (m)* 

1966/99 West Clare Railway, baronial auditor’s reports, 1893-99 (ms)* 

2248/99 Lwr Bann Navigation, notes (vs)* 

2249/99 Kinsale Harbour, traders and openings made in railings on pier (p) (ms)* 

2484/99 Camogue Drainage District (vs) 

2543/99 Naas PLU, loan under Labourer’s Acts (m) 

2544/99 Youghal PLU, Labourer’s Act loan (2pp) 

2868/99 Strokestown drainage apportionment (s) 

OPW5 – 3306/99 – 3933/99 

3306/99 Colehill national school, Longford, works (ms) 

3445/99 Letterkenny Railway, contracts, tenders, specs, bills of quantities (m)* 

3754/99 Dublin Corporation, £2250 for additional pens in cattle market (s) 

3789/99 Dublin Custom House, original Gandon drawings presented to Robert 

Manning and the OPW (also Jacob Owen), now lost or mislaid (vs)* 

3793/99 Land Act 1870, reduction of annuities (ms)* 

3898/99 Lough Neagh Drainage District, notes (vs) 

3926/99 Carclinty national school, Antrim (p) (ms) 

3933/99 Cloghroe national school, Cork (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 4001/99 – 4136/99 

4001/99 Carrigrohane Drainage District, papers (vl) 

4136/99 Queenstown coastguard station (purchase of Springfield House), deeds etc 

(l) 

OPW5 – 4207/99 – 4927/99 

4207/99 Nenagh PLU, Labourer’s Acts loans £5850 (ml) 

4446/99 St Mary’s national school, Athlone (s) 

4479/99 Kingstown Harbour: visit of Duke and Duchess of York (ms)* 

4511/99 Clogh glebe (near Clones?) etc (p) (nice map) (ms) 

4522/99 Drogheda butter-gate, vesting proposal (s)* 

4563/99 loan to Noble Hilliard of Fermanagh (s) 

94

Tralee UDC loan £700 (s) 

4799/99 Dunany Cove coastguard station, new buildings (m)* 

4839/99 Sow River Drainage District apportionment (s) 

4927/99 Kingstown Harbour, water money (paid by vessels to harbour constables) 

(s)* 

OPW5 – 4936/99 – 5616/99 

4936/99 D McCarthy and application under housing of working classes legislation, 

Cork City (maps) (m) 

5119/99 Drumherriff (near Drumshambo) spoil banks slippage, works reports, 

Shannon Navigation (map) (ml)* 

5146/99 Knockmagee national school, Cork, improvement (s) 

5463/99 Leckpatrick Manse, Londonderry (specs, p) (ms) 

5616/99 Arklow coastguard station, lookout house, dispute with Kynoch’s (ml) 

OPW5 – 5619/99 – 6146/99 

5619/99 Guys infant national school, Ballymena (s) 

5636/99 loan to Dublin Corporation, paving (s) 

5660/99 Donaghadee Harbour, quay yard and store (rents) (m) 

5846/99 Shannon Navigation, management of sluices at Killaloe, complaint by 

Lefroy (ms)* 

5767/99 Land Commission and estate of E.L. Griffin (vs) 

5968/99 Fivemile Point coastguard station, Wicklow, repair of approach road (s) 

6000/99 teacher’s residence, Ardmore national school (ms) 

6008/99 Moyrus glebe house, Galway (s) 

6029/99 storage of yachts in Kingstown Harbour (‘La Vague’) (s) 

6146/99 lists of vested national schools (ms)* 

OPW5 – 6149/99 – 8137/99 

6149/99 lands of Cleaboy and compulsory purchase under Railway Acts (vs)* 

6250/99 Bunkey Drainage District (ms) 

6290/99 Suck Drainage District (vs) 

6368/99 cleaning Ardclooney River, Shannon Navigation (vs) 

6544/99 Anne O’Donoghue, loan for housing of working classes, four cottages, 

Dublin (m)* 

6720/99 Mallow RDC, loan under Labourer’s Acts (s) 

6866/99 Galway Custom House, rent and repairs (m) 

6869/99 reduction (to £1) to rent payable to Earl of Pembroke out of Leinster Lawn 

(vs)* 

95

7235/99 statutory water-levels maintained by Shannon Navigation, 

correspondence/memos, 1897-99 (ms)* 

7724/99 care of Newgrange tumulus (m)* 

8137/99 erection of Athlone lock-house (for collector) (p) (ms)* 

OPW5 – 8310/99 – 9813/99 

8310/99 Letterkenny-Burtonport Railway, communications from interested persons 

(m)* 

8949/99 Kingstown Harbour, erection of lifeboat signal (s)* 

8966/99 Clonmel RIC sewerage (p) (ml) 

9224/99 Davidstown RC glebe, Co Wexford (m) 

9334/99 Calary glebe, Co Wicklow (p) (m) 

9343/99 condition of Kilcolgan Quay, Galway (vs) 

9348/99 Rosslare Customs Station, lifeboat house, lease (ms) 

9370/99 Wicklow Harbour, baronial guarantees (ms) 

9373/99 Suck drainage, misc notes (s) 

9651/99 proposed sale of Southern Railway (m)* 

9813/99 fish traffic from Killybegs to England via Greenane, expeditious route (s)* 

OPW5 – 9816/99 – 13350/99 

9816/99 Howth glebe, Co Dublin purchase (s) 

9846/99 Partry national school teacher’s residence (s) 

10124/99 Queenstown new Customs House, erection (exc) (p) (l)* 

10177/99 Cranfield ruined church, Antrim, works and repairs etc (vg) (s)* 

10199/99 apportionment of old Public Health Loan loan arrears (new administration 

and boundaries) (s)* 

11776/99 Castlejordan Castle, Co Meath, vesting rejected (p) (sketch) (s)* 

13350/99 Clonkeen church, Queen’s County, sketches etc (s)* 

OPW5 – 13905/99 – 14627/99 

13905/99 St Angela’s national school, Castlebar, erection (p) (m) 

13516/99 Phoenix Park, damage by cavalry on drill grounds, correspondence (m)* 

13609/99 labourer’s dwellings, Cork Spinning and Weaving Company Ltd, 27 

houses (p) (m)* 

13615/99 Navan UDC loan, completion of waterworks (s) 

14025/99 Killeenadema national schoolteacher’s residence, Galway (p) (ms) 

14035/99 Congested District Board, 24 Parnell Square, accommodation problems 

(qg) (m)* 

14440/99 Donegal Railway, deposit of consols (s) 

14627/99 Clooncurry national school teacher’s residence, Sligo (s) 

96

OPW5 – 15095/99 – 17524/99 

15095/99 note of gas accounts Dublin district buildings (vs) 

15961/99 Cork, Blackrock, Passage Railway – Crosshaven extension, Railway 

clauses (m) 

16046/99 Great Southern Railway amalgamation, correspondence etc, BOW interest 

in Collooney-Claremorris Railway (m)* 

17524/99 Sligo, Leitrim, Northern Counties Railway, sale of BOW interest (l)* 

OPW5 – 336/00 – 1403/00 

336/00 stores deficiencies/write offs (s) 

739/00 Old Head of Kinsale national school (building & repairs) (plans), 1890s 

(m) 

1139/00 new regulations for Land Acts (s) 

1107/00 tolls for Cape Clear Island pier (s) 

1235/00 standard maintence, glazing, window cleaning, contracts etc: Dublin state 

buildings (m)*R1 

1301/00 houses under labourer’s acts, Navan UDC (s) 

1302/00 Roscommon water works loan (s)*R1 

1345/00 Galway harbour, lease of a plot of ground (s) 

1403/00 Baltimore extension railway (WM Murphy) (m)*R1 

OPW5 – 1439/00 – 2819/00 

1439/00 teacher’s residence, Mackler’s Hill, Co Tipperary, lease problems (plans) 

(s)*R1 

1481/00 lunatic asylum loans (s)*R1 

2140/00 page 

2439/00 Tralee and Dingle light railway (m) 

2674/00 Blanchardstown glebe & Derry national school (m) 

2704/00 file on OPW architect’s office dispatch cases (m)*R1 

2819/00 Pickle Point pier: construction (plans) (l)*R1 

OPW5 – 2855/00 – 4236/00 

2855/00 water supply to public buildings in Dublin (m)*R2 

3002/00 Eagle’s Nest national school, Galway (qg) (s) 

3087/00 Clonliffe Glebe (fires & insurance) (s) 

97

3144/00 houses under labourer’s acts, Cork UDC (s) 

3355/00 advances for Wicklow harbour, divers, dredging, newspaper cuttings (m)* 

3650/00 O’Grady memorial fountain, Leinster Lawn (plans) (s)* 

4236/00 Phoenix Park private gates (old papers from 1832) (plans) (s)*R2 

OPW5 – 4265/00 – 6517/00 

4265/00 Clonmacnoise repairs and works (m)*R2 

4442/00 Rathmines & Rathgar improvements act: road widening loan & arbitration 

(plans), some interesting stuff (m) 

6502/00 Crosshaven extension railway (m) 

6517/00 Kilronan pier exten, how decisions made, first stage, progress of 

construction (plans) (m) 

OPW5 – 6660/00 – 7042/00 

6660/00 Carnabridge national school, Co Derry (plans), construction, ‘prestige of 

the school’ (s)* 

6729/00 Analeentha national school, Cork, classroom improvts (120) (plans) (s) 

6826/00 Buncrana-Carndonagh railway culverts (plans) (s) 

6889/00 Bunkey drainage district, applic to fix increased rents (good example) 

(m)*R2 

6985/00 loan to Portrush UDC (‘granilothic footpath’, sanitation) (s) 

7032/00 Health loan to Killarney board guardians, waterworks in Milltown (s) 

7041/00 Lackan pier, Mayo, repairs etc, loan, good tools listing (plans) (m)* 

7042/00 Kilmore pier (1p) 

OPW5 – 9540/00 – 11504/00 

9540/00 Committee meetings on ‘ancient and national monuments’ (m)*R2 

9991/00 Donegal railway act, 1896, arbitration, usual (some corr.) (m) 

11195/00 land improvt loan on Lambert estate, Co Galway (int problem) (s)* 

11344/00 conveyance of land in Howth harbour (s) 

working class houses, Tubbercurry: inspections, plans etc (qg) (s)* 

11440/00 working class houses, Dundalk UDC (s) 

11441/00 delivery of sand to Quin Abbey (national monuments) (s)* 

11445/00 problems with sea fishing loan, proceedings (Rathlackan) (s)* 

11504/00 Macroom glebe loan, purchase and build (plans) (ok) (s) 

98

OPW5 – 11732/00 – 12279/00 

11732/00 St Patrick’s convent national school, Bray, vesting schools, interesting 

stuff on building costs etc & non-orthodox designs (plans) (lm)* 

11868/00 Lisnaw infant convent national school, Kerry, (usual ok) (s) 

11921/00 Suck drainage, rent charges, partners (qg) (s)* 

11959/00 loan under labourer’s acts, Croom RDC (mostly legal) (m) 

12228/00 loan for road improvement, Dublin Corporation, inquiry of LGB (s) 

12279/00 clerks of works for piers, personnel stuff (s)* 

OPW5 – 12485/00 – 13133/00 

12485/00 Turlough glebe loan, excellent progress reports, inspections etc (plans) 

(s)*R2 

12584/00 Rosslare customs premises, mostly renting, leases, houses for customs 

officers (sg) (m) 

12708/00 Dunmore harbour, letting for fish curing in western quarry (minor) (s) 

12850/00 Phoenix Park, cycling on footpaths, excellent (good notices) (s)*R2 

12938/00 lease of property to R Hewitt, Athlone collector, sailing club etc, 

personnel case etc (s) 

13022/00 land improvement/residence act (water supply) – interesting inspections 

(s)* 

13133/00 trespass at Kingstown harbour (cycling on tramway) ‘it has been found 

difficult to find amongst the Board’s labourers, men sufficiently vigilant 

and intelligent for the duty of guarding the tramway without giving offence 

to the public’ (s)* 

OPW5 – 14793/00 – 15018/00 

14793/00 Rinn river drainage maps (t) 

14815/00 Monasterboice crosses, taking rubbings (s)* 

14895/00 Burtonport railway land plans, arbitration, payments to land valuer, 

farmer’s complaints (m) 

14940/00 Health Act loan, Dublin Corporation, improvements to Blessington Court 

(s) 

15066/00 loan under Labourer Acts, Nenagh RDC (mostly legal) (lm) 

15018/00 Dundalk Customs, OPW management of leased property for Inland 

Revenue, Carroll’s tobacco Ltd leasing bonded warehouse, complaints, 

rent reduction (interesting) (m)* 

99

OPW5 – 15032/00 – 15346/00 

15032/00 application for space for curing fish – Howth? (one beautiful notice) (ok) 

(s) 

15036/00 Lissoonan national school, deviation & penalties (qg) (s) 

15051/00 Shannon Navigation: Ingham v Mackey, re access to eel fisheries (g) 

(m)*R2 

15062/00 Mitchelstown & Fermoy railway, interesting light on BOW input to 

legislation (m)* 

15168/00 Shannon Navigation, special inspection in 1900 to answer complaints by 

grand canal company, parliamentary question (s)* 

15346/00 Carndonagh railway, issue of guaranteed stock, directors need BOW 

permission (interesting) (s)* 

OPW5 – 15814/00 – 19652/00 

15814/00 Royal University of Ireland, Earlsfort Terrace, insurance problems, fire 

protection/outside, repairs, exhibition of Irish textiles (m)* 

16209/00 Phoenix Park water supply (mainly re Vice-Regal Lodge) (lm)*R2 

16596/00 funds for national monuments (voted & church funds), also expenditure, 

late 1890s (s)* 

16759/00 lettings of property to Irish Lights Board, Kingstown Harbour (good 

plans), (interesting) (s) 

17063/00 Phoenix Park, labourer’s wages, appointments etc (m)*R2 

19652/00 Rosserk Abbey, national monuments (s)* 

OPW5 – 438/01 – 3787/01 

438/01 Dunmore East harbour lettings (t) 

643/01 Glosh river drainage, outside Drainage Board area, no one responsible 

despite needs (s) 

811/01 Kingstown Harbour, dredging/excavation to serve mail packet (plans etc) 

(s)* 

963/01 Galway harbour dues on imported sugar, issue of keeping at 1d per bag? 

(s) 

1281/01 Rinn drainage, maps (s) 

1306/01 vesting of Swords Castle (qg) (plans) (s)* 

1347/01 Dublin (James Gate) Brewery Tramway Bill, comments on whether will 

injure crown property (s) 

1884/01 meeting of national monuments committee, 1901-1902 (continuation of 

earlier file) (s)* 

100

2225/01 police protection for national monuments (memo) (vs)* 

2424/01 Phoenix Park, boating on ornamental pond (s)* 

2879/01 Shannon Navigation, Athlone woollen mills building wall, right of 

passage dispute, OPW rent management, Shannon navigation 

improvements (ml) 

3787/01 Greencastle coastguard station, problems getting a site, lease ended, 

considered a new building, failed, renewed lease on old buildings, repairs 

(m) 

OPW5 – 3899/01 – 7029/01 

3899/01 Callow national school, Mayo, repairs & extension, problems with 

contractor (s) 

3925/01 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, water pumping station at Islandbridge (letters 

going back to 1860s) (ml)* 

5226/01 Ballybur castle, Kilkenny, refusal of vesting (s)* 

5920/01 New Ross – Waterford extension railway, routine arbitration (s) 

6961/01 Galway harbour, Mr Lynche’s holding (nice plan), Harbour Board seeking 

BOW approval for a sale (interesting bits) (s) 

6855/01 Kingstown Harbour: cycling on the west pier (nice notices) (ok) (s)* 

6996/01 health loan, Nenagh water supply, mostly legal stuff, little bits good (s) 

7029/01 Personnel material: appointments of inspectors on Shannon Navigation 

(Fletcher etc) (s)* 

OPW5 – 7101/01 – 11551/01 

7101/01 Kilberry glebe, improvements (plans) (qg) (s) 

7269/01 Barronstown dispensary residence, Louth, deviations etc (plans) (qg) (s) 

7444/01 Ardagh national school, Longford, interesting case (vg) (m)*R2 

7501/01 proposed Killavill national school, Sligo (usual, ok) (plans) (s) 

7508/01 Shannon Navigation: raising level of towing path at Cussane Lock (ok) 

(s)* 

7525/01 Rossinver glebe, usual (g) (s) 

workhouse loans also 

7981/01 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, master quarters, furnishings (s)* 

11551/01 railway lines, county obligations examined (m) 

OPW5 – 13424/01 

13424/01 Lough Erne drainage board: mix of material (vl) 

OPW5 – 13424/01 (pt 2) 

101

13424/01 Lough Erne drainage board – excellent material back to 1860s, general 

topics (vl) 

OPW5 – 14166/01 – 16952/01 

14166/01 Shannon Navigation, lettings in Banagher (s) 

15247/01 Phoenix Park: hackney cars and hawkers (s)* 

16118/01 Phoenix Park: Whites Gate and general on lodges (s)* 

16952/01 accident to Mr de Courcy Wheeler, Stephen’s Green (s)* 

OPW5 – 134/02 – 4009/02 

134/02 Galway harbour, improvements and dredging (m) 

136/02 Shannon Navigation, letting on Gannon’s Lock, near Camlin River (t) 

1675/02 Shannon Navigation, Drumsna quay, Jamestown sluices (interesting) (s)* 

2643/02 Dublin Castle, maintenance of ‘pound’ (ie Castle gardens) (lovely plan) 

(s)* 

3904/02 Burchaell estate, Lough Allen, Drumherriff mill (property sale problem) 

(s) 

3969/02 Suck drainage apportionment (mostly legal) (s) 

4069/02 national monuments, general memos, sale of consols (s)* 

OPW5 – 4484/02 – 11790/02 

4484/02 Howth harbour, maintenance of stores etc (s) 

4755/02 arbitration schedule, Southern Railway (s) 

5590/02 Phoenix Park: polo ground (g) (m)*R2 

6706/02 Shannon Navigation, Athlone lock mills (s) 

9137/02 Burtonport railway deviation & arbitrations (s) 

11107/02 national monuments, question of photos taken c. 1880 and offered for sale 

to BOW (s)* 

11790/02 Dublin Castle, state apartments, drains/heating (s)* 

OPW5 – 13654/02 – 14747/02 

14747/02 Bray electric tramways, BOW refused permission after engineering 

inquiry (s)* 

13654/02 middle island of Arran, caretaker on national monuments (s)* 

13902/02 Shannon flooding, complaints and data etc (s)* 

14187/02 Shannon navigation, Killaloe mills, rents/problems etc (m) 

14800/02 Royal Canal, quarterly reports, 1899-1902 (m)*R2 

102

14630/02 general memo on national monuments (t)* 

OPW5 – 17381/02 – 17533/02 

17381/02 Royal College of Science/land commission, agriculture/congestion in 

Custom House (l)*R2 

17533/02 Kingstown Harbour: water supply to mail packet (m)*R2 

OPW5 – 677/03 – 1093/03 

677/03 treasury note (t) 

685/03 refusal to give loan for labourer’s cottages in Wicklow, Aughrim (t)* 

690/03 grate for RIC barrack, at Faha, Cork (t) 

701/03 Burtonport harbour, Donegal, sewage and upkeep (s) 

705/03 Elly Bay coastguard station, repairs to storm damage (s) 

708/03 rules question re teacher’s residence (loans for already occupied houses) 

(t) 

709/03 Cloughduv national school, Cork, improvements (shutters) to school (s) 

718/03 land loan note (t) 

721/03 electric lighting loan to Dublin Corporation (t) 

723/03 loan water supply for Lismore (t) 

725/03 Wexford labourer’s loan account (t) 

726/03 Cork district lunatic asylum loan (mostly legal) (s) 

731/03 rebuilding/repair to furnace in College of Science (s) 

738/03 Enniscorthy post office – pathway outside (t) 

741/03 repairs to Kinnury RIC barrack (s) 

742/03 electric bells in Masters Quarters, Royal Hospital Kilmainham (t) 

745/03 Greencastle coastguard station, extra accommodation for boatmen (s) 

746/03 Malinmore coastguard station, repairs to houses and lodging allowance 

issue (s) 

747/03 Rathmullen coastguard station, repairs (t) 

749/03 Rosses Point coastguard station, repairs/painting (t) 

750/03 payment for repairs to clock in Dublin (t) 

754/03 man seeks key for Ashtown Gate Phoenix Park (denied) (t) 

757/03 repair to Laragh RIC hut (t) 

766/03 Foxford RIC barracks repairs (t)*R1 

767/03 Dunmore barracks repairs (t)*R1 

773/03 plumbing and gas fitting work, College of Science (s)* 

778/03 BOW note on Midland Great Western Railway bill (t) 

779/03 BOW examination of Great Southern & Western Railway bill, useful note 

(t)* 

783/03 loan of £600 for Kilkenny workhouse (s) 

788/03 labourers acts, Sligo RDC, £1320 (legal) (s) 

103

870/03 Old Custom House premises, Essex St – outstanding BOW problems of 

property management (s)* 

1016/03 workhouse loan, Donegal PLU, £400 (legal stuff) (s) 

1093/03 labourer’s loan (t) 

OPW5 – 1100/03 – 2504/03 

1100/03 Dalkey coastguard station, new washhouse as a gen. topic (& Kingstown 

sheds etc) (s)* 

1213/03 Blackrock (Dublin) Presbyterian glebe, Rev John Snowdon (plans) (ok) (s) 

1341/03 labourer’s loans, Longford RDC, £6300 (legal stuff) (s) 

1342/03 Labourer’s Acts, Carrick-on-Suir RDC (legal stuff) (s) 

1477/03 rent of Cork Custom House (death of landlord) (s) 

1494/03 loans to County Councils, Cavan, £450 (legal) (s) 

1738/03 Dublin Castle: sanitation file, ventilation (m)*R2 

1758/03 plan for developing the resources of north west Donegal (mostly re 

harbours) (s) 

2504/03 Athlone lock mill repairs (rent etc) (s) 

OPW5 – 2816/03 – 3776/03 

2816/03 Shannon Navigation lettings near Cootehall (m) 

3776/03 Shannon Navigation – letting to Patrick Bushell, Knockvicar island (s) 

loan for Dundela glebe, Belfast (t) 

3705/03 local registration of title, comments on bill (goodish) (s) 

3714/03 Kilkenny post office, demolition of adjoining building, lots developments 

(plan) (s)* 

3776/03 storm damage of 26 th Feb 1903, claims dealt with (s) 

OPW5 – 3865/03 – 4251/03 

3865/03 small dwellings acquisition act, Dublin Corporation, loan £1010 (legal) (s) 

3869/03 Labourer’s Acts loan, Mitchelstown RDC, £6300 (legal) (s) 

3931/03 St Anne’s convent national school, Castlerea, heating apparatus (plans) 

(s)* 

3963/03 Foynes harbour trustees (nice BOW tolls notice) (t) 

3970/03 joint committee Limerick Asylum loan, £9000 & £1500 (legal) (s) 

4218/03 Dunfanaghy glebe (RC) (interesting side issue) (s)* 

4251/03 Castlebar post office (plans!) (ml)*R2 

OPW5 – 5374/03 – 9974/03 

104

5374/03 Phoenix Park, football, prohibition (s)* 

5790/03 question re tolls on vice regal yachts etc, Shannon Navigation (s) 

8675/03 Kingstown Harbour, disorderly gatherings on BOW property (s)* 

9807/03 Ballyclough national school, teacher’s residence, loan £250 (basic) (s) 

9872/03 Monaghan lunatic asylum, £2500 for sewage works (ok, legal) (s)* 

9891/03 Cloghans teacher’s residence, Cork (plans) (good example) (s) 

9904/03 Aghavas glebe, Leitrim (ok) (s) 

9923/03 Kilconnell Abbey, Galway, national monuments (m)*R2 

9974/03 Marine Works Act, 1902, notices to Co Councils (s) 

OPW5 – 10201/03 – 11371/03 

10201/03 Nobber drainage district (g) (m) 

10233/03 Labourer’s Act loan, Listowel RDC, £240 (basic legal) (s) 

10410/03 Vice Regal Lodge – gardens, inventories, maintenance (m)* 

11371/03 accommodation allotted to RDS in Leinster House (plans) (BOW funded 

etc Spring Shows etc until 1877-78) (m)*R2 

OPW5 – 12646/03 – 14839/03 

12646/03 Claremorris workhouse loan of £900 (routine legal) (s) 

12786/03 Clonmel PLU – workhouse loan of £3000 (routine) (s) 

12788/03 Killarney UDC, loan of £600, problem over punctuality (s) 

12789/03 Killarney UDC loan - £150 (t) 

12933/03 Donoughmore glebe, loan £600 (good plans) (routine) (s) 

13008/03 Labourer’s Acts, Carrick-on-Suir, loan of £7810 (routine) (s) 

13055/03 Cork RDC, Public Health Act loans, £400, burial ground (routine) (s) 

13067/03 Dunmore harbour, lease plot to Alex Birrell (s) 

13074/03 Cootehill national school teacher’s residence (good plans) (s) 

13681/03 Shannon Navigation, club boathouse site, Limerick (s) 

13808/03 Clare Co Council, loan of £1500, asylum waterworks, punctuality issue 

(s)* 

13828/03 note of appointment to pier/port (t) 

13986/03 Bandon PLU, loan of £800, workhouse sewage & laundry (routine) (s) 

13910/03 ruins on Church Island, Sligo (sketches) (s)* 

14011/03 supply of rolltop desks for DMP office (s)* 

14203/03 Labourer’s Acts, Ballyshannon RDC, loan of £3320 (routine) (s) 

14754/03 Passage West teacher’s residence (goodish) (s) 

14839/03 Rathangan arterial drainage (t) 

OPW5 – 14993/03 – 15986/03 

14993/03 House of Industry hospital, rents, property, loans (interesting) (ml)* 

105

15746/03 Phoenix Park, encroachments on park boundary, unsightly structure built 

(s)* 

15986/03 lettings of land/roads transferred at Kingstown RDC, pipes for Royal 

Marine Hotel baths (plans) (s) 

OPW5 – 16617/03 – 17548/03 

16617/03 bridge between counties over the River Suir, Waterford bridge 

commissioners (interesting inquiry) (s) 

16680/03 Moy Navigation: issues over loan repayment failures (m)* 

17132/03 Cork-Blackrock-Passage Railway: arbitration (s) 

17548/03 Great Northern Railway Company: arbitration re Castleblayney lands 

(routine) (s) 

OPW5 – 1933/04 – 4055/04 

1933/04 ‘Cundy sheds’, land loans, and other land loan matters (p) (g) (ms) 

3910/04 loan for erection of artisan houses at Barrackton, Cork, modifications (p) 

(s) 

3943/04 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, restoration of chapel ceiling (p) (vg) (ml) 

3980/04 Labourer’s Acts, Ennis RDC, loan £363 (s) 

4007/04 proposed new College of Science, correspondence re site purchase, 

Kildare Place (l) 

4055/04 Dunmore East harbour, plot at Western Quarry, letting out (s) 

OPW5 – 4125/04 – 6792/04 

4125/04 drainage aspects of Waterford & Rosslare railway (p) (l) 

4152/04 information on Longford drainage boards, loans by OPW etc (s) 

4614/04 Newgrange & Dowth, various aspects, including caretaker’s cottage (ml) 

6725/04 Moville coastguard station, lease arrangements, repairs etc (m) 

6784/04 proposed vesting of Carbury Church, Kildare (rejected as in such good 

condition) (sketches, photos, plans) (g) (s) 

6792/04 Cappa coastguard boatslip, rebuilding (plans) (m) 

OPW5 – 6807/04 – 12908/04 

6807/04 Galway harbour – Limerick Steamship Company, transfer of lease interest 

in harbour premises (ml) 

6962/04 Letterkenny RDC, Labourer’s Loans (s) 

7612/04 Ballytouhy Lock, Shannon Navigation, lease of property (ms) 

11301/04 Marine Works Act, example and general issues (s) 

106

11488/04 Glendalough, inspections etc, 1886-1904 (l) 

12908/04 Mellifont Abbey, inspections etc, repairs, sketches, 1898-1904 (g) (l) 

OPW5 – 12997/04 – 15468/04 

12997/04 Lefroy’s wall at Killaloe, property dispute (farmer’s letters) (g) (m) 

14215/04 lease of Shannon eel fisheries to Col Bruce, general issues (g) (l) 

14787/04 Tervoe boy’s national school, Limerick, erection (p) (ms) 

14834/04 harbour master’s house and offices, Limerick (g) (ms) 

dock facilities etc, 1854-1904 (s) 

14892/04 Shannon properties beside Athlone (s) 

14917/04 Waterford RDC, Labourer’s Acts, £4500 (s) 

15013/04 general discussion, problem of Bann Drainage (s) 

15191/04 Letterkenny & Burtonport railway – opening/OPW retaining money till 

completed (s) 

15414/04 receivership of Kinsale Harbour (s) 

15468/04 Meenascreena national school, Co Cork, additions (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 13717/04 – 15719/04 

13717/04 Corrib navigation and drainage, mostly Persse chancery case (1850s- 

1900s) (vl) 

15719/04 condition of eel weirs on surrender (s) 

15819/04 Tipperary RDC, Labourer’s Acts, loan £1565 (s) 

OPW5 – 15699/04 – 17133/04 

15699/04 Labourer’s Acts, improvement scheme, Dingle RDC, loan £5000 (s) 

15821/04 Labourer’s Acts, Clones No 1 RDC, £1015 (s) 

16007/04 erection of Murreen national school, Mayo (p) (ms) 

16037/04 Edenderry PLU, arbitration (s) 

16045/04 Castleblayney RDC, Labourer’s Acts (s) 

17133/04 erection of new signal station, Cahirmore, Cork (near Castletownbere), 

semaphore equipment (np) (m) 

25689 

OPW5 – 589/05 – 3690/05 

589/05 Dublin Castle: presentations of portraits of ex-viceroys, 1904-29 (s)* 

3141/05 Mallow post office, 1889-1905 (good plans etc, original conversion, later 

alterations) (m)*? 

107

3264/05 Dunany coastguard station, Louth, 1871-1905 (original site & rights of 

way problem, typhoid fever & death, drainage) (m)*? 

3266/05 ennis udc, water supply loan, petition to reduce rates of interest (rejected) 

(s)* 

3312/05 fishery piers and harbours, passage east pier, Waterford, 1902-05 

(improvements, plans, evaluations of case for assistance & loan/grant) 

(m)*? 

3353/05 Housing of Working Classes Act, Naas (nice plans, specs), loan applic 

then disposal in 1943-44, assessment, inspections etc, 1903-44 (m) 

3389/05 national monuments, St Crispins Cell, Delgany, 1880-1905 (s) 

3690/05 Glebe loans, useful correspondence on general aspects of cases, particular 

plans, Burt, Derry (s) 

OPW5 – 3705/05 – 4358/05 

3705/05 Seskin Avenue dispensary, Dungarvan, loan application (beautiful plans), 

good on questions, problems etc, 1897-1905 (m) 

3805/05 Gortmore national school, Galway, renewal of roof (plans, specs, repts), 

(s) 

3882/05 fees for valuers under Public Offices Site (Dublin) Act, 1903 (s) 

3898/05 Slievenamargy RDC, labourer’s houses loan (routine legal) (s) 

4001/05 national monuments, circulars, papers re 1892 Act, routine forms (m) 

4076/05 Marine Works Act, 1902, Clifden pier, pier planned by Council etc, 

objection of BOW & ultimate failure of project, 1902-05 (m) 

4152/05 Dromore West RDC, labourer’s loan of £1200 (routine legal) (s) 

4358/05 window cleaning, law library, April 1905 (t) 

OPW5 – 4423/05 – 14690/05 

4423/05 Dublin Custom House, plantation at Beresford Place, 1890-1905 (trees 

being planted by OPW around Dublin), land swopping (m) 

4894/05 national monuments, vesting ruins of castle (nice plans, reports) (s) 

13483/05 proposed vesting ruins of Simonstown Castle, Westmeath, refused (exct 

notes, plans, sketches) (s) 

13564/05 Shannon Navigation, agreements with boat-owners over use and mooring 

on Shannon, 1884-1905 (m) 

14627/05 Holycross Abbey, reports, works, care of ruins, 1898-1905 (exct) (s) 

OPW5 – 7187/05 

7187/05 Burtonport railway file, problems with construction of the line from the 

start, 1905 (l) 

108

OPW5 – 14889/05 – 17615/05 

14889/05 Phoenix Park, improvements, replanting ‘9 acres’, railings etc (plans, 

specs) (m) 

15028/05 Stephen’s Green: betting men, 1904-06, including court cases by BOW 

(exct) (m) 

15690/05 Shannon Navigation, eel tanks at Athlone, 1902-05 (nice map) (s) 

16080/05 Dunmore Harbour, convent school encroachment on BOW property (plans 

etc) (m) 

17615/05 Land Act 1870, case of Fleming estate, Kerry (m) 

OPW5 – 253/06 – 7933/06 

253/06 Dingle peninsula, 1898-1905, national monuments (plans, photos etc) (m) 

3262/06 fishery rights, title of BOW, Shannon rights, dredging sand near Limerick 

re possible damage to fisheries, 1902-06 (m) 

5252/06 Bridge proposed over Shannon at Longpavement (plans) (s) 

7166/06 gravel pits in Inchicore estate, material used in Phoenix Park (s) 

vesting of Clonburren Castle etc, rejected (plans, photos) (s) 

7233/06 vesting of Colbally Church, rejected (plans, photos) (s) 

7765/06 Phoenix Park, Cabra sewage discharge, Blackhorse Lane, court case 

against North Dublin RDC, 1878-1906 (ml) 

7933/06 Royal Canal, powers and duties of Board of Control, engineer’s reports 

etc, 1890s-1900s (m) 

OPW5 – 10124/06 – 15512/06 

10124/06 Hill of Tara and the ark of covenant search, 1899-1906 (ml) 

11107/06 Tralee and Dingle railway deviations, (ml) 

11793/06 Ballinree national teacher’s residence (plans etc) (s) 

14619/06 Ballinamore loan under Public Health Act, 1890s-1906 (s) 

15434/06 Clondulane national school-teacher’s residence (s) 

15512/06 maintenance of Royal Canal, quarterly reports, 1903-06 (m) 

OPW5 – 15535/06 – 15748/06 

15535/06 Land Improvement Act, estate of Major Tredennick, Ardara, Donegal, 

improved residence, 1884-1908 (ml) 

15662/06 Aran Islands coastguard stations, works and repairs, 1898-1907 (l) 

15675/06 Killann parish teacher’s residence, 1904-12 (plans) (s) 

15680/06 teacher’s residence, carnashanagh, Donegal, 1904-25 (s) 

15748/06 plans for teacher’s residences, general file (s) 

109

OPW5 – 28/07 – 1109/07 

28/07 estimate for repairs to Eglinton canal (vs) 

100/07 St Paul’s, Bray, teacher’s residence, 1905-07 (s) 

125/07 labourer’s loan, Loughrea RDC, £2100 (s) 

220/07 Rutland Island pier or quay (vs) 

273/07 St Vincent’s national school, Dublin, 1905-07 (s) 

322/07 Labourer’s Acts loan, Killarney RDC, mostly legal, 1904-07 (s) 

436/07 Tralee & Fenit pier and harbour, Royal Assent to loan, Aug 1907 (t) 

460/07 Stranorlar & Glenties railway, adjudication (s) 

461/07 Millstreet RDC, loan under Small Dwellings Act, legal stuff (vs) 

467/07 Urlingford, Co Kilkenny, Labourer’s Act loan, legal stuff, 1904-07 (vs) 

1109/07 notes etc of Royal Commission on canals, newspaper reports, Nov 1906 

(m) 

OPW5 – 1664/07 – 3608/07 

1664/07 works etc at Rock of Cashel (unbound), 1897-1907 (m) 

2272/07 Inchicore North & Longmeadows estate, gardener’s house (nice coloured 

tracing) (s) 

2454/07 Phoenix Park, motor cars and motor bikes, 1902-07 (m) 

2708/07 Shannon Navigation, leasing and lock-keepers (s) 

2752/07 Cavan-Leitrim Railway, loan for Arigna extension (m) 

3482/07 Carrigeen Roe teacher’s residence, permission for changes (BOW plans, 

tracings) (s) 

3608/07 Brandon pier, Co Kerry, 1885-1902 (m) 

OPW5 – 5874/07 – 6421/07 

5874/07 Gortnasate pier, Donegal, Marine Works Act (good plans) 1904-07, (m) 

6070/07 hire of dredgers, form of agreement & accident case (vs) 

6090/07 DMP courts, licence to lay pipes for Vartry water (vs) 

6139/07 rocks at mouth of Howth harbour (vs) 

6240/07 Newbrook teacher’s residence, Mayo, inspections (plans), 1904-07 (s) 

6405/07 teacher’s residence, Drangan, Tipperary, application (s) 

6421/07 Mohill glebe loan, Revd Pat Newman CC (nice tracing plans) (ok) (s) 

6494/07 Emyvale dispensary residence, Monaghan PLU (no plans) (s) 

OPW5 – 6484/07 – 6746/07 

6484/07 teacher’s residence, Shandon, St Mary’s, Cork, (nice plans), 1892-1907 (s) 

110

6491/07 tenders for work at Ordnance Survey, Phoenix Park (t) 

6503/07 Monaghan post office (photos, specs etc, no plans) (m) 

6254/07 Dunmore East harbour, lettings on pier, 1854-1907 (beautiful drawing of 

lighthouse) (s) 

6648/07 glebe loan, Hollyford, Tipperary (good drawing, tracing) (s) 

6746/07 teacher’s residence loan, Drumnacurran, vesting problem & general info 

(vs) 

OPW5 – 6903/07 – 7680/07 

6903/07 Roundstone national school, building and enclosing (irish inscription 

issue), (s) 

6936/07 glebe loan, Blanchardstown, Rev St. Fennelly PP (nice plan) (s) 

6938/07 glebe loan, Boyounagh, near Glenamaddy, Co Galway, Walter Conway 

PP, inspection (s) 

6939/07 glebe loans, King St, St Finbar’s, Cork (vs) 

7296/07 loan for Trim waterworks, mostly legal material (s) 

7505/07 Wicklow UDC sewerage arbitration, Wicklow Tramways Order, mostly 

legal (s) 

7506/07 Midland Great Western Railway, arbitration award (m) 

7559/07 sinking of quay at Shannon Bridge, Aug 1905 (vs) 

7633/07 Glountane road loan, Listowel, legal material (s) 

7680/07 Cork RDC water supply, Knockraha village loan (vs) 

OPW5 –8278/07 – 8948/07 

8278/07 Lough Corrib drainage, claims of Sir Valentine Blake agt government, 

revived law case going back to 1850s, for £1800 compensation (m) 

8563/07 Howth Harbour – spreading nets on the pier, harbour bye-laws (s) 

8340/07 Duncannon & Arthurstown harbour dredging, complaints about badly 

done work (s) 

8501/07 Inchicore North Estate: damage to Liffey Vale House, by army (vs) 

8557/07 Dublin Corporation, Small Dwellings Acq Act, £10,000, legal stuff (s) 

8561/07 Howth harbour – damage to lamps by fishing boats/damage to railings in 

Phoenix Park/vandalism in Shannon Harbour (s) 

8577/07 Strabane-Letterkenny Railway, culvert schedule (s) 

8825/07 teacher’s residence, Edenderry (near Portadown), interesting rent case (s) 

8948/07 accounts department retirements and appointments (s) 

OPW5 – 8989/07 – 9798/07 

8989/07 Kilfinane old national school, renovation, new toilets, resurfacing, desks 

(lots images, nice colour tracings) (vg) (ms) 

111

9108/07 flooding at Cussane, (Ballyteigue) (vs) 

9190/07 Ushet harbour, Rathlin Island, Antrim (loose, nice drawing) (s) 

9347/07 loans for Bansha glebes (3 of them) (nice plans, specs) (s) 

9483/07 Inchicore North Estate, encroachment by signboard, legal dispute (s) 

9497/07 Lisconnor harbour, Home Office regulations, Factory Acts, exemptions 

(nice plan) (not bad example) (s) 

9575/07 Dungarvan dispensary residence, purchase of built house (ng, no plan) (s) 

9577/07 Killala, Mayo, glebe loan (beautiful plan, specs) (s) 

9633/07 foreshore rights of crown (Athlone banks of Shannon) (vs) 

9798/07 extension of Loughshinny pier, Dublin (just legal stuff) (s) 

OPW5 – 9954/07 – 10081/07 

9954/07 Dock regulations under Factory Acts: Royal Harbours (maps, plans, 

notices of regulations) (ms) 

9904/07 Clooncan teachers residence, Loughglan, Roscommon, progress 

inspections (s) 

9988/07 erection of working class housing, Enniscorthy UDC, loan £1700, legal 

stuff (s) 

10002/07 issue of quarry company making a pier at Portnalong, Donegal (no plans) 

(s) 

10037/07 Royal College of Science, Portland versus Mountcharles stone, 1904-07 

(no plans) (s) 

10029/07 Ballyfin glebe loan, near Mountrath, 1906-42 (exct tracings) (ms) 

10081/07 Personnel: Thomas Cassedy, promotion to staff officer (s) 

OPW5 – 10288/07 – 10671/07 

10288/07 Cleggan pier, repairs, extension, division of responsibilities for 

maintenance etc, BOW & CDB & Co Council, 1901-07 (m) 

10431/07 Waterford bridge, claims/valuators award (s) 

10498/07 Linen Hall property, barracks etc, transfer to BOW, managing it (plan of 

occupiers) (m) 

10634/07 French Church, Waterford, ruins of friary, works etc, inscription to S.U. 

Roberts, 1902-07 (nice tracings) (m) 

10671/07 teacher’s residence, Conna, Tallow, 1905-07 (standard BOW no.1 plans & 

sketches) (s) 

OPW5 – 10733/07 – 11204/07 

10733/07 Clifden pier, Marine Works Act, complexities of responsibilities, potato 

failure, query as to value of Hennibique concrete method (good plans) 

(ms) 

112

10734/07 Blackwater Drainage Board, dispute, 1905-07 (qg) (m) 

10769/07 Athenry glebe, Revd Edmund Thomas 

10937/07 Fethard dispensary residence, erection, 1906-07 (no plans) (s) 

11011/07 Public Works Loans Bills, 1905 & 1906: comments (vg) (m) 

11204/07 Co Council loans, purchase of steam rollers, Tipperary North Riding, 

£1100 (loose) (s) 

OPW5 – 11255/07 – 11753/07 

11255/07 Cloonfad glebe loan, Rev P O’Connor, original and completion loan 

(plans, specs, etc) (ok) (s) 

11269/07 Royal Harbours, petroleum acts, 1871-1881 (bits) (s) 

11284/07 24 Kildare St, Merrion St Upper, Land Commission, uralite query, BOW 

offices (property management) (good plans) (m) 

11571/07 Ardmoyle national school, Co Tipperary, renovation (small plans) (ok) (s) 

11647/07 establishment in Buildings Division OPW, increase of staff, 1905-07 (s) 

11678/07 Wicklow harbour loans, applications etc, 1905-07 (no plans) (bits) (m) 

11753/07 Drumcondra national school, Revd Lewis Crosby, 1907 (plans, specs) (ok) 

(s) 

OPW5 – 11763/07 – 12641/07 

11763/07 sale of Blackrock Battery plot beside old baths (no 12) to Kingstown 

UDC, 1902-07 (nice tracings) (bits) (m) 

11928/07 Ballydehob teacher’s residence, Revd AJ Brady, 1906-07 (simple plans) 

(s) 

11975/07 Dundrum asylum, proposed cottages for married attendants quarters, 

attempted purchase of site, nothing on construction on file (bits) (m) 

12075/07 Arklow harbour and Mountgarrett Bridge loans, redemption, 1907-08 (s) 

12094/07 Garumna glebe, Co Galway, repairs to former glebe (plans), 1902-07 (s) 

12099/07 Kerry Co Council, loan for River Feale bridge, £1500 (s) 

12264/07 Salerna national school, Co Galway (near Spiddal), erection (specs, 

tracings, plans etc) (ms) 

12594/07 Glandree national school, repairs, 1905-07 (s) 

12641/07 Falchorrib slip and breakwater, Donegal, Marine Works Act of 1902 

(plans transferred), 1902-07 (usual stuff) (ms) 

OPW5 – 12642/07 – 13169/07 

12642/07 Rathmullen pier, Donegal, dredging, accident, byelaws (no plans), 1902- 

07 (ms) 

12870/07 arbitration: Merchant Shipping Act 1894 and lands required at Mizen 

Head, Cork (s) 

113

12927/07 Buolick Church, Co Tipperary, proposed vesting as national monument 

(photos, plans) (vs) 

12976/07 Deel Drainage Board, restoration by BOW, maintenance issues (lovely 

plan of sluice), 1905-07 (m) 

13073/07 Howth harbour, license duties for boats, prosecutions by harbour master 

(stories of different boats: one received in will) (ms) 

13109/07 erection of Newtown national school, Tipperary, 1906-07 (tracing) (s) 

13169/07 Ballyheane national school, Mayo, good progress reports (basic BOW 

plans), 1887-1907 (s) 

OPW5 – 13307/07 – 13466/07 

13307/07 Whitechurch dispensary residence, Waterford, usual devts (nice plans, 

specs), 1906-07 (s) 

13316/07 Central district boys teacher’s residence, usual devts (no plans), 1906-08 

(s) 

13374/07 proposed establishment of steamer ferry service, Magilligan to 

Greencastle, with railway extension, loan application, rejected by 

government, favourable BOW advice interesting (ms) 

13445/07 issue of carrying on a business in teacher’s residence, Shannonview, Co 

Clare, 1880-1907 (s) 

13452/07 Howth harbour, proposed letting at tramway terminus of land for building, 

permission given (nice tracings) (bits) (s) 

13454/07 application of Athlone UDC for plot for building working class dwellings, 

refused as feared deposits of household waste in Shannon canal (s) 

13461/07 national schools: question of erection of buildings larger than 

contemporary attendance justifies, 1907 (s) 

13466/07 Lough Mask and River Robe Drainage district: Board business, 1896-1907 

(m) 

OPW5 – 13646/07 – 13979/07 

13646/07 College Green post office, specs etc for building designed by Pentland, 

1907 (s) 

13654/07 Rush coastguard station, annoyance over blocked right of way, 1864-1907 

(bits) (m) 

13655/07 Corofin glebe construction, 1887-1907, broken window insurance (simple 

plans, specs) (s) 

13689/07 Galway harbour, reconstruction works, appointment of receiver, 1872- 

1907 (s) 

13707/07 Kilkenny RDC, loan applic for £4500 for building labourer’s houses 

(routine legal) (s) 

13742/07 Firmount national school, Cork, 1906-07 (lots plans, not BOW, nice 3 

phases) (s) 

114

13813/07 Cross in Carpenterstown townland, Co Westmeath, proposed vesting (nice 

drawings) (s) 

13896/07 Coppenagh Bare national school, application process, local architect (good 

tracings), 1907-07 (s) 

13958/07 Liscraw castle, Co Kerry, proposed vesting as national monument, 

rejected (photos, plans) (s) 

13979/07 Shannon Navigation: Fylam (?) eel weirs, Killaloe (loose, tracings) (vs) 

OPW5 – 13985/07 – 14823/07 

13985/07 Greenmount Spinning Company, Harold’s Cross, proposed erection of 

houses with aid of loan under Act of 1890, financial evaluation by BOW 

(site maps) (s) 

14060/07 Kingstown harbour: use of mail packet pier by steamers (plans, diagrams 

etc) (ml) 

14073/07 Carraholly national school, Mayo, repairs, revesting of school, 1906-07 

(loose) (s) 

14087/07 Millstreet convent school, Cork, site abandoned, 1907 (vs) 

14251/07 Ardara RC glebe, Donegal, basic devts (good plans etc) (s) 

14255/07 loan for sewer at Youghal Auxiliary Asylum (s) 

14791/07 Ballyonen pier, Co Louth, BOW refused responsibility for maintenance (s) 

14823/07 establishment papers: appointment of John Chaloner Smith (exct) (m) 

OPW5 – 15478/07 – 15225/07 

15478/07 Cloonboniff teacher’s residence, Roscommon, fire damage (nice sketch, 

no plans) (ms) 

15392/07 St Mary’s (Eason’s Hill) national school, Cork, construction (plans, specs) 

(qg) (m) 

15336/07 Whitestown war signal station, designed by Cochrane, full construction 

(good plans) (m) 

15245/07 improvement of Tuam water supply, 1906-07 (legal side) (s) 

15228/07 New Pallas RIC station, sanitary repairs, 1888-1907 (drainage tracings) (s) 

15107/07 photos of silver plate, vessels etc (apparently from Christchurch or Dublin 

Castle) (s) 

15225/07 bill of quantities for proposed veterinary laboratory at rear of Merrion St 

nos 27-29 (s) 

OPW5 – 63/08 – 659/08 

63/08 Shannon Navigation, Plassy Bridge public access, also canal walkway as 

thoroughfare (notices) (s) ? 

115

85/08 proposed improvts to Green St courthouse (ventilation & lighting) (specs, 

electric wire plans etc) (s) ? 

108/08 Killoscully nat sch, Co Tipp, alterations considered as maintenance, 1880- 

1907, ok (s) 

230/08 civil bill prosecution under drainage maintenance act, failed, farmer in 

Scotland, 1907-08 (vs) 

277/08 Dublin Corporation Bill of 1908 – comments (vs) 

278/08 Dundalk UDC Bill – comments (vs) 

357/08 National school designs, gratuity to Wheeler, OPW draughtsman for 

contributions (vs) 

359/08 Dublin & Central Ireland electric power bill, 1908 – comments 

(vs) 

401/08 Belturbet post office, construction 1904-1907 (specs, gd plan, site photos) 

(ms) 

659/08 Blackrock post office, construction, 1904-1908 (plans, maps, sketches) vg 

(m) 

OPW5 – 909/08 – 1059/08 

909/08 Midleton (no 2) dispensary district, Cork, basic loan file (spec & plan) 

(s) 

898/08 Royal College of Science: interference with ancient lights of Maguire’s 

premises, Merrion Row (vs) 

966/08 Kilcrea Abbey, Cork (nat mons), works, repairs etc, 1891-1908 (plans, 

sketches, photos) (m) 

967/08 Ballygarvan Abbey, Carrigaline, Cork (nat mons), vesting issue 

(s) 

979/08 Sth Dublin RDC, loan for Terenure sewerage, of £20,000, usual legal file 

(s) 

989/08 Teacher’s residence, Newcastle, Co Galway, little changes suggested to 

BOW for approval, 1902-1908 (bow plans, specs) (s) 

990/08 furniture for national schools, tenders, 1908 (vs) 

1000/08 Royal College of Science, contract no 4, corr re stone to be used, 1907-08 

(s) 

1059/08 Trafrask national school, Bantry, Cork, 1895-1908, improvd old school 

(plans) (qg) (m) 

OPW5 – 1228/08 – 1618/08 

1228/08 Dromineer Castle (nat mons), vesting process (rejected), 1908 (vs) 

1370/08 Bruff dispensary (Kilmallock PLU), loan and erection, progress repts 

(specs, plans, maps, drainage plan) (ms) 

1539/08 Roundstone pier, Marine Wks Act, byelaws, tolls, harbour constable 

issues (ms) 

116

1596/08 St Mary’s Convent national school, Roscommon (by WG Doolin), good 

construction etc (plans of playshed) (ml) 

1609/08 dock labourers query (vs) 

1618/08 Killaloe male national school, Clare, from construction, 1899-1907 (qg) 

(s) 

OPW5 – 1634/08 – 2040/08 

1634/08 Royal College of Science, contract no 3, Belfast bricks (specs, no plans), 

1906-08 (m) 

1663/08 Shannon Navigation: Jamestown canal bank, rights of McLaughlin family, 

poor hut, 1860-1908 (ms) 

1712/08 parliamentary questions re national schools: general (s) 

1804/08 Kingstown harbour: arrangements for royal visit, 1907 (special by-law 

notice) (s) 

1811/08 Donoughmore nat sch, Limerick, reconstruction proposal (& gen 

comment) (s) 

1916/08 issue of sick leave for Samuel Reid, 1895-1908 (ms) 

1992/08 grants for national schools, general notes, 1903-1908 (s) 

2040/08 Corrigeenroe national school, 1908 (vs) 

OPW5 – 2110/08 – 2401/08 

2110/08 Meeninabane national teachers residence, Co Down, basic file (ok), 1903- 

20 (s) 

2123/08 safe in the Office of Arms, Dublin Castle, 1907-08 (s) 

2264/08 Cape Clear Island (nth) pier, Cork, Marine Works Act, works, injuries etc 

(no plans) (m) 

2285/08 St Stephen’s Green park, count of waterfowl, 1892-1908 (no plans) (m) 

2319/08 Seed Supply Act, 1908 (legal bits) (s) 

2401/08 Galway bonded warehouse, leasing management, 1905-08 (m) 

OPW5 – 2490/08 – 2878/08 

2490/08 Royal College of Science, tenders for heating and ventilation, 1908 (m) 

2565/08 Athy RIC barrack, water supply & sanitation (plans), 1895-1908 (qg) (ms) 

2691/08 latrines required in national schools, general, 1908 (vs) 

2783/08 Shanagolden national teachers residence, Limerick, loans etc (civil bill 

case over liability refused), 1884-1908 (lovely elevations) (m) 

2832/08 expenditure on Queen’s Colleges since erection (vs) 

2847/08 Royal College of Science, stone used: correspondence (ms) 

2878/08 abandonment of pier of Saleen & Binghamstown by Mayo County 

Council (s) 

117

OPW5 – 3286/08 – 3468/08 

3286/08 Glebe loan, Milford, Co Donegal, 1877-1908 (plans, specs) (ok) (s) 

3325/08 loan for enlargement of burial ground, Swinford RDC, £839: usual legal 

stuff (s) 

3326/08 Charlestown water supply, Swinford RDC, £550 loan: usual legal docs (s) 

3327/08 Dublin corporation: small dwellings acquisition act, advances £10,000, 

goodish (s) 

3368/08 Boyne Drainage Board: trustees & maintenance rate liabilities, 1897-1908 

(ml) 

3468/08 Dun Laoghaire harbour: sailor’s reading room, 1868-1908 (plans, loose) 

(m) 

OPW5 – 3474/08 – 3878/08 

3474/08 dispensary residence, Thurles, Tipperary, 1905-08 (gt plans, specs, qties), 

ok (s) 

3600/08 Dublin & SE Railway Bill, 1908 ---- comments (s) 

3624/08 arbitration of award schedule, A McStewart, Gt Northern Railway (s) 

3686/08 Castletown Bere pier, Cork (B class), inspections, dredging, 1898-1908 (s) 

3789/08 Rosslare Customs (Fort), mostly sales and leasing issues, 1901-08 (early 

letters good) (m) 

3878/08 Royal College of Science, new workshops, lights on Mill’s bakehouse, 

Merrion Row, 1907-08 (s) 

OPW5 – 3900/08 – 4881/08 

3900/08 greenhouse in Royal Hospital Kilmainham, abolition, 1906-08 (s) 

3969/08 Royal College of Science: correspondence re contractor for bricks (loose) 

(s) 

4319/08 disposal of houses belonging to old Tarbert coastguard station (new one in 

use, early bits good) (m) 

4476/08 Kingstown harbour: new steamer service, 1908 (m) 

4881/08 Tralee post office, construction (excellent), 1904-1908 (ml) 

OPW5 – 432/08 – 5050/08 

4732/08 review of loans given for labourer’s cottages etc under the Land Acts 

(public works loans bills), 1907-08 (ms) 

4960/08 Upper Inny drainage board: trustees and maintenance rates (ms) 

4966/08 Monaghan post office, difficulties with contractor (not wks) (m) 

118

4987/08 Lough Oughter drainage district, 1908 liability (vs) 

5025/08 Navan post office, construction (plans, sketches, specs), 1900-08 (ml) 

5050/08 land improvement inspectors, appts, exams, leave: personnel stuff, 1897- 

1908 (m) 

OPW5 – 5200/08 – 5660/08 

5200/08 Roskeen national school, Tipperary: construction, 1908 (nice short thing) 

(vs) 

5207/08 Newtown national school, Tipperary: vestry, repairs, 1908 (nice short file) 

(vs) 

5220/08 destruction of rats in public buildings, 1895-1908 (m) 

5594/08 Cloughs Cregg Castle, Kilkenny, vesting process, 1908 (vs) 

5465/08 Queen Victoria memorial statue (exct, plans etc), 1903-1908 (m) 

5660/08 arbitration schedule, Dublin docks, widening North Wall quay (s) 

OPW5 – 5689/08 – 6039/08 

5689/08 Cosby national teacher’s residence, Stradbally, Queen’s Co (specs, maps), 

1906-13 & 1926-37 (ms) 

5738/08 Donaghadee harbour weekly fishing returns, 1905-1907 (m) 

5783/08 Glenarm coastguard station & signal station (abandonment) (plans, maps), 

1870s-1900s, mostly site location (ml) 

5803/08 Corrib drainage: maintenance rate, 1908 (vs) 

5933/08 Botanic gardens: connection of sewer to Glasnevin training college (s) 

5968/08 Glebe Loan Acts, Revd Geo Croby, Easkey glebe, 1907-08 (s) 

5971/08 St Mary’s Donnybrook, Sandymount, glebe loan: for purchase, 1908 (s) 

6039/08 Tramore: surrender of Naval Reserve Shed & property, 1906-08 (property 

mangt) (ms) 

OPW5 – 6072/08 – 6875/08 

6072/08 encroachment of Jacobs Ltd on lane beside Cork Model School, 1902-08 

(s) 

6261/08 College of Science outfall drain, 1908 (s) 

6317/08 Cahirciveen RIC barrack, fire escape, 1908 (s) 

6346/08 Colthurst national school, maintenance (nice plans etc), 1902-1908 

6529/08 repairs to national schools, specs drafted, 1908 (s) 

6577/08 statute law revision bill, 1907 – comments (ms) 

6583/08 Cloncovid national school, Cavan, additional class (nice plans etc) (s) 

6604/08 Phoenix Park, magazine fort railings, 1906-08 (s) 

6655/08 fishery piers and harbours in Wexford: general (s) 

119

6681/08 Tullamore UDC – labourer’s cottage acquisition, £3000, 1906-08, mostly 

legal (s) 

6695/08 Portnoo, Co Donegal – tolls, bylaws, constable (nice plans) (s) 

6875/08 technical school loan, Kildare Co Council, £200 (legal) (s) 

OPW5 – 6966/08 – 7672/08 

6966/08 Dublin Castle, chief secretary’s office, electric lighting, 1907-08 (exct 

specs, plans) (m) 

7205/08 Rochford Bridge boys school, Westmeath (loose), enclosure, 1908 (vs) 

7209/08 South Abbey national school, Cork (loose), improvts, vesting order (to 

get?) (s) 

7367/08 Portarlington convent school, Kings County, 1899-1908 (specs, plans etc) 

(l) 

7671/08 Limerick district asylum loan, £700, drainage, 1908 (loose) (vs) 

7672/08 Ballinaspittle water supply, Kinsale RDC, £420 loan (loose) (vs) 

OPW5 – 7728/08 – 8117/08 

7728/08 Wicklow Head war signal station, 1891-1908, construction (plans, maps, 

elves), beside old lighthouse (l) 

8056/08 Downies Bay pier, extension, Marine Works Act, 1906-08, construction 

(exct plans, maps, sections) (m) 

8117/08 Kingstown harbour board: discussion & corr about harbour dues issue, 

1905-08 (m) 

OPW5 – 8276/08 – 10281/08 

8276/08 Irish Land Commission, Merrion St, addl accommodation, dispute over 

wall at hospital ground, 1907-08 (early bits) (m) 

10090/08 Agheragh glebe, Cork, construction loan, 1892-1908 (s) 

Tinahask national school, Wicklow, to enlarge and improve instead of 

erection (plans, site maps, specs, lovely elevations) (m) 

10206/08 Queen’s Royal Theatre: enlargement & fire security, reports and 

inspections (beautiful plans and elevations) (ml) 

10281/08 Cork post office, Telegraph Messengers Institute, 1907 (plans, sketches, 

maps) (s) 

OPW5 – 10504/08 – 11085/08 

10504/08 Dunmore East harbour – shed erected by Georgesons Ltd, lease 

surrendered upon bankruptcy, 1904-1908 (large notice of sale) (bits) (m) 

120

10629/08 Annacarter teacher’s residence, Wicklow, £250, 1903-08 (plans, maps, 

specs) (s) 

10705/08 Ballymalis castle, Kerry, vesting process rejected (nice photos, plan) (s) 

10715/08 Rathmore rath, Kildare, vesting rejected (loose) (s) 

11010/08 Phoenix Park – water supply to zoo seal pond (s) 

11083/08 Mellifont Abbey, 1905-1908 (plans etc), paper of A Scott published (m) 

11085/08 Kingstown harbour – mail boat causes obstruction (s) 

OPW5 – 13110/08 – 13649/08 

13110/08 Timoleague Abbey, Cork, works etc, 1878-1908 (plans, sketches) (ms) 

13307/08 Glendalough, vicissitudes, caretaker problems (maps, sketches (ms) 

13458/08 Phoenix Park, proposed letting of kiosk and termination of O’Connor’s 

tenancy (bits) (m) 

13649/08 Kingstown Harbour: railway service to pier, dispute leading to court case 

(ms) 

OPW5 – 14120/08 

14120/08 Kingstown Harbour Board v Railway Companies - court case; qty of 

papers and plans (vvl) 

OPW5 – 14674/08 – 16491/08 

14674/08 arbitration, Castleblayney, Keady, Armagh Railway, JD Bell (vg) (s) 

15096/08 Phoenix Park – license to put lamp near Cabra gate, 1908 (vs) 

15142/08 Inchicore North Estate, proposed purchase of Irish Road Engineering Co 

premises and encroachment by window, 1906-08 (photos, maps) & 

general stuff on encroachments (ms) 

15361/08 Rathkerry castle, Meath, vesting rejected (photos) (s) 

16296/08 note on maps of Phoenix Park having been transferred to BOW from Quit 

Rent Office (s) 

16491/08 Cloonbroneif glebe, Longford, erection of out-offices (specs, plans: good) 

(s) 

OPW5 – 336/09 – 6292/09 

336/09 works on Gough statue, Phoenix Park, removal and repairs (p) (s) 

6181/09 Kingstown Harbour, keeping fairway clear between entrance and Carlisle 

Pier (ms) 

6242/09 Mitchelstown RDC, improvements in sewerage £850 (s) 

6243/09 South Dublin RDC, Crumlin water supply, £3000 (s) 

121

6267/09 national schools, fuel sheds, general designs (p) (s) 

6269/09 Sybil Head war signal station, preliminaries etc (p) (ms) 

6276/09 premises at rear of 27-28, Merrion St Upper, DATI veterinary diagnosis 

laboratory (p) (m) 

6292/09 works at Cape Clear Harbour (including general issues), man paralysed, 

‘rules for resident engineers’ (s) 

OPW5 – 6799/09 – 6935/09 

6799/09 Sea Fisheries Fund, state grants for improvement of fishery harbours (m) 

6438/09 Housing of Working Classes Acts (Ireland), 1908 (8 Edwd VII c.61), 

general file (m) 

6433/09 Bagenalstown national school residence, Carlow (p) (ms) 

6466/09 Rosslare customs proposed surrender of Rosslare Fort (s) 

6557/09 Geevagh temporary RIC barrack, Sligo (ms) 

6703/09 Ratoath male national school residence (lovely plans) (ms) 

6731/09 Donaghpatrick curate’s house, Galway (interesting analysis of sureties) (p) 

(s) 

6779/09 Kilmallock glebe loan (p) (s) 

6935/09 Inchicore North Estate, improvements (vs) 

OPW5 – 6951/09 – 10622/09 

6951/09 no vacancy for females in OPW (t) 

7016/09 landing facilities in Carnadoe Waters (grange quay, Lough Allen) (3 

photos) (p) (ms) 

7097/09 Ballinamore & Ballyconnell drainage district, 1903-08 (m) 

7109/09 Aughnaglough national school residence (Monaghan) (p) (s) 

10255/09 Dingle beehive structures, Glenfahan Townland (railway danger) (ms) 

10590/09 notes/personnel, Central Bureau for Employment of Women, OPW 

contracting out (ms) 

10622/09 Doolargy (Inishmacrath) glebe, Leitrim (near Carrick-on-Shannon) (p) 

(ms) 

OPW5 – 10755/09 – 14434/09 

10755/09 parliamentary bills, Alliance & Dublin Gas Consumer’s Bill, 1909 (ml) 

11040/09 Ardmore boatslip and breakwater, Waterford (p) (m) 

11313/09 enlargement of Donegal Workhouse Infirmary, loan £225 (s) 

11315/09 national schools general, grants for enlargement, Treasury correspondence 

(s) 

12988/09 Drumshambo South national school, site plan, Leitrim (t) 

14474/09 Limerick Post Office, ownership of adjoining wall (p) (s) 

122

OPW5 – 1050/10 – 2255/10 

1050/10 water supply to Lock mills, Limerick & dredging of old Limerick canal, re 

leasehold liability of mill-owners to keep canal at depth, demanded by 

OPW, 1887-1910 (with rental abatements) (plans) (bits) (ms) 

1772/10 Botanic Gardens, fee farm grant from Alex. Carroll (1839), re renewal and 

purchase of claim, 1904-10 (s) 

1952/10 Cloghduv national teacher’s residence, Crookstown, Cork (BOW plans, 

specs), problems over site location, use of compulsory powers, large 

deviations in which old spec used (s) 

1953/10 Boycetown proposed DD, Meath, dubious scheme BOW questioned 

(loose), 1910 (vs) 

1994/10 loans for labourer’s cottages, Bill and financial aspects, parliamentary 

questions, 1910 (vs) 

2025/10 Galway harbour, deepening entrance to commercial dock, reduction of 

harbour debt and application for new loan, overseen by BOW necessarily, 

1907-10 (s) 

2160/10 carpenter in charge of buildings in Four Courts District, accident, sick 

leave, 1908-14 (s) 

2226/10 Cahirciveen glebe, Kerry, fire damage, new loan (gd plans) (usual, some 

good bits), 1882-1910 (s) 

2233/10 interest rates in Labourer’s Loans discussed, parliamentary query, 1910 (s) 

2255/10 Ballymackney national school, Monaghan, built & vested c.1860, 

proposed grants for improvements, HG Leask involved (exct plans etc) (s) 

OPW5 – 2346/10 – 2761/10 

2346/10 Kidnaminsha national school, Monaghan, many vested schools 

extinguished by death of Edward VII in 1906, problem discussed, 

surveyed and assessed, HG Leask involved, 1890-1910 (s) 

2352/10 Morragh national school teacher’s residence, loan taken to redemption 

(specs, BOW plans, site map), inspections, loan struck off as school 

closed, concerns religious amalgamations and integrations (g) (s) 

2446/10 Cork Improved Dwellings Co Ltd, nice inspection, loan, surrendered, 

1873-1914 (s) 

2503/10 loans to CDB, special advance of £50,000, interesting interdepartmental 

facility, 1908-10 (s) 

2569/10 case of accident, fall of woman near Summerhill Cottages, Board rejects 

liabilities (plans, maps) (s) 

2609/10 Land Commission overflow staff offices, 5 Ely Place & Valuation Office 

6 Ely Place, preparation by BOW, plans of Geological Survey Office, 

1903-10 (vg) (ms) 

123

2743/10 Caherally national school, Limerick (specs, plans), new privies and other 

improvements, 1905-10 (g) (s) 

2761/10 Kinvarra harbour, Marine Works Act, byelaws, improvements, tolls, 

ownership (notices, schedules), 1909-10 (ms) 

OPW5 – 2835/10 – 3968/10 

2835/10 general file on fishery piers and harbours, Mayo, 1905-10, Co Surveyor 

dong surveys of piers (ok) (s) 

3251/10 Dublin Castle, preparation of state apartments for occupation, March 

1910, inventories and thefts (loose), 1909-14 (s) 

3854/10 Tallaght pier, Mayo, condition, Co Council liability asserted by BOW, 

1903-10 (s) 

3861/10 lighthouse cove slip, breakwater, Clare Island, Mayo, inspections, 

condition, 1903-10 (s) 

3863/10 Portacoola breakwater, Clare Island, Mayo, inspections, repairs, condition, 

1903-10 (s) 

3865/10 Bunacurry pier, Co Mayo, inspections, repairs, condition, 1903-10 (s) 

3890/10 Ferbane dispensary residence, Kings County, £1500 (good plans, specs), 

usual stuff, inspections, 1905-10 (g) (s) 

3894/10 Templederry glebe, Tipperary, John Enright CC, (good plans, specs), lots 

on deviations, 1908-09 (s) 

3866/10 Darby’s Point pier, Achill, inspections by coastguards, 1906-10 (s) 

3968/10 Cluin boys & girls national schools, near Castletownbere, Cork, lots detail 

(plans, specs) (g) (m) 

OPW5 – 3987/1- 4302/10 

3989/10 Howth Harbour, lighting and proposed handing over of Kilrock Road to 

North Dublin RDC (maps, notices), 1893-1910 (bits) (m) 

4002/10 Mason Island pier, Galway (plans), irritation of BOW at inactivity of Co 

Council (nothing on initial construction) (plans) (bits) (m) 

4028/10 South Aran, Inishmor pier, inspections, 1909-10 (t) 

4042/10 Tralee office of CDB, file on tenancy and care of office, 1905-10 (s) 

4131/10 Kilkee pier, condition and inspections, 1903-1910 (s) 

4282/10 labourer’s cottages, Fermoy UDC (routine legal), 1909-10 (s) 

4302/10 Clonliffe national school, construction and fire damage (plans, specs etc), 

1895-1910 (g) (m) 

OPW5 – 4401/10 – 5887/10 

4401/10 Birr post office, frontage and proposed pathway, 1904-1910 (s) 

124

4517/10 Birr PLU, workhouse loan, £550, sanitary improvements to fever hospital 

(routine legal) (vs) 

4566/10 College of Science, substitution of Sicilian marble for limestone, 1909-10 

(s) 

4597/10 Donegal Co Council, loan for renovating Port Bridge in Letterkenny RDC 

(interesting legal question re loan for replacement bridge: new?), 1909-10 

(s) 

4763/10 Midleton RDC, carrigtwohill sewerage, £800 loan (routine legal) (s) 

4804/10 Macroom RDC, ballymakeery water supply, £460 loan (routine legal), 

1907-10 (s) 

5818/10 wall next to Keel coastguard station fell down, May 1910 (t) 

5830/10 additional offices and boardroom accommodation, Rathdown workhouse, 

loan of £1000 (loose) (routine legal) (s) 

5835/10 Barrow drainage, determining grant for works, 1908-10 (s) 

5887/10 Rathmullen coastguard station, tenancies of cottages, rentals etc, 1901-10 

(m) 

OPW5 – 6062/10 – 6401/10 

6062/10 Renard Point pier, Kerry, Marine Works Act, workmen’s insurance 

discussed, two accidents, excellent BOW notice of accident compensation 

(mostly routine), 1909-10 (bits) (s) 

6014/10 St Vincent de Paul national school, Limerick, construction, enlarging 

(specs), 1884-1910 (vg) (ml) 

6116/10 Dunmore East harbour, rental of store no 8, 1908-1910 (s) 

6220/10 Public Health Act, loan, Greystones sewerage (routine legal), 1909-10 (s) 

6395/10 Barronstown glebe, Louth, Pat Clarke PP, £400 loan, (usual) (plan, spec, 

map), 1908-10 (s) 

6401/10 Leesborough Drainage Board, Monaghan, trustees & maintenance rates, 

1904-10 (m) 

OPW5 – 6402/10 – 6708/10 

6402/10 Rath/Clooneen Drainage Board (Longford-Westmeath), (usual), 1904-10 

(m) 

6490/10 St Otterman’s national school, Waterford, construction & enlargement 

(plans, specs), 1895-1910 (vg) (ml) 

6587/10 Carlingford male and female teacher’s residences (usual), (BOW plans, 

specs, map), 1888-1910 (s) 

6684/10 Glynn glebe, Antrim, loan, Revd Oulton, 1880-1910 (exct plans by Saml 

Close, specs), (s) 

125

6885/10 Herbertstown glebe, Limerick, Revd Pat Crowe, loan £297, (usual, 

inspections, plans, specs), 1908-10 (s) 

6708/10 College of Science, insurance bills on builders, 1908-10 (s) 

OPW5 – 6738/10 – 7623/10 

6738/10 Dublin County Council loan, £275, concreting a footpath in North Dublin 

(loose), (routine) (s) 

6763/10 National Schools general: cookery and science room fittings (lots plans, 

specs), 1908-10 (m) 

6849/10 Ennis State Inebriate Reformatory, compulsory acquisition of land (maps), 

(loose), 1910 (s) 

6851/10 water supply to Howth pier (maps), conveyance from BOW to Justice 

Boyd to ensure control over water pipe going through land sold to him by 

BOW, sale of house (s) 

6944/10 Dolphins Barn national school, Dublin (plans, specs), enlargement, lots 

improvements (only) (vg) (m) 

7623/10 National Schools general: preparation of standard estimates, revision of 

forms (new plans), 1907-10 (m) 

OPW5 – 7793/10 – 8024/10 

7793/10 National Schools general: procedures for payment for vouched 

expenditure, 1909-10 (ms) 

7821/10 West Donegal light railway, Treasury liability to pay dividends discussed, 

1896-1910 (bits) (ms) 

7846/10 St Joseph’s convent national school, Ballyhaunis, supplementary works 

and repairs, 1902-10 (g), (s) 

7872/10 General Register Office (Rutland St) (sketches), renewal of stone work, 

tenders etc, specs (early restoration project) (lovely plans), 1909-10 (ms) 

7879/10 Ballycotton pier, Cork (B), inspections & repairs, 1903-10 (s) 

8024/10 Buncrana pier, Donegal, legal problems over pier extension loan 

(interesting), 1906-1910 (m) 

OPW5 – 8029/10 – 8665/10 

8029/10 Burren and Courtmacsherry piers, Cork, inspections etc, 1903-10 (vs) 

8034/10 Iniskea national school, construction, progress reports, (BOW plans), later 

disrepair, 1894-95 (s) 

8064/10 Enniscorthy UDC, loan £300 for council offices (routine), 1910 (s) 

8252/10 Streamstown teacher’s residence, Westmeath (plans, BOW3) (usual, vg) 

(ms) 

126

8370/10 Celbridge UDC, loan £1000, extension of burial ground (legal routine), 

1910 (s) 

8437/10 loan of £800 to Meath County Council, steam rolling portion of Navan to 

Dublin road (s) 

8482/10 Ballyduff glebe, Waterford, loan £400, 1907-10 (lovely plans, specs) 

(usual vg) (ms) 

8544/10 insurance payments related to injury to Moriarty at Renard Point, dispute 

(s) 

8552/10 Roughly pier, Sligo (B), inspections and repairs, 1903-10 (s) 

8554/10 Moville wharf, Donegal (B), inspections, repairs, discussion on liability of 

Board of Works, wrong pier claimed (s) 

8623/10 costs claimed by law firm (Kenny) for prosecutions on behalf of Galway 

Harbour Board, from 1884-1910 (listed) (s) 

8665/10 Templendigan, national school, Wexford (near Enniscorthy), construction 

and grant (usual) (BOW plans, specs), (s) 

OPW5 – 8701/10 – 9789/10 

8701/10 Downies Bay pier, correspondence with Campbell & Handman, 

contractors over faulty construction carried out, 1909-10 (s) 

8841/10 Gurrane pier, Kerry, inspections and repairs, 1908-10 (vs) 

8842/10 Callinafercy pier, Kerry, inspections & repairs, 1908-10 (vs) 

8858/10 Kingstown harbour, dues payable by mailboats & steamers, Treasury 

correspondence (conflict with Dublin Port), 1908-10 (ms) 

9635/10 loan £350 Mount Bellew RDC, sinking well and erecting pumps (routine), 

1909-10 (s) 

9672/10 Portmagee boat slip, Kerry (A), inspections and repairs, built under Sea 

Fisheries Act of 1884-5 (plans) (m) 

9734/10 Trim UDC, loan £600, steam rolling (routine), 1910 (s) 

9777/10 National Schools general: specs for concrete in school construction, 1910 

(ms) 

9789/10 Wicklow post office, attempted (failed) location of site (maps, plan), 1910 

(s) 

OPW5 – 9813/10 – 10425/10 

9813/10 Galway harbour, audit of accounts and general correspondence (good 

early bits only), 1908-10 (m) 

9865/10 coastguard stations for sale or lease, correspondence with Lady Aberdeen 

etc, 1909-10 (qg) (m) 

9895/10 South Dublin RDC, loan £4000, Terenure and Crumlin water supply 

(routine), 1910 (s) 

10180/10 Cappoquin convent national school, Waterford, building then 

improvements (specs, map, no plan), 1899-1910 (g) (m) 

127

10425/10 Ballingarry convent national school, building & improvements (loose), 

(lovely plans, specs), good labour costs listing (loose), 1899-1910 (m) 

10636/10 Bearhaven, Castletown (Lawrence Cove), Cork (unclassed: military?), 

(plans, maps, specs), 1886-1910 (m) 

OPW5 – 11608/10 – 11957/10 

11608/10 Dunquin (Blaskets) church and cells, ogham stone removed by Mahaffy, 

Inishvickallane, 1886-1910 (s) 

11623/10 Kilrossanty glebe, Waterford, loan £500 (usual, nice plans, specs), (g) 

(ms) 

11688/10 claim by John Wright for compensation under workers compensation act, 

1909-10 (m) 

11743/10 Corkbeg wireless telegraph station, construction and erection of fence 

(nice plan, elevations, specs), 1907-10 (m) 

11814/10 Killineif (Dalkey), dispensary and caretaker’s residences (usual, 

inspections) (maps, plans, elevations – (vg) (ok) (s) 

11810/10 Kilmacduagh monastery, round tower, works and repairs (A Scott) (plan), 

1879-1910 (m) 

1863/10 Tuam RDC, loan £250, addition to burial ground (loose) (routine), 1908- 

10 (s) 

11957/10 Gurteen national teacher’s residence, Galway, contractor left for America 

(loose), 1904-10 (s) 

OPW5 – 12112/10 – 12479/10 

12112/10 Swillyburn Arterial Drainage Board, Donegal, usual, 1887-1908 (qg), (s) 

12143/10 Inchicore North Estate, grazing lease, trespass notices etc, rents (good map 

of estate before turned into War Memorial Park), 1905-10 (ml) 

12253/10 Urcher teacher’s residence, Monaghan, loan £250, deviations & reports, 

usual (lovely plans, specs etc), 1901-10 (ms) 

12260/10 dredger Sisyphus, collision with Kincora, 1910 (s) 

12333/10 loan to Mullingar town commissioners, for labourer’s dwellings (good 

town notice, lovely plans, elevations), 1884-1910 (m) 

12442/10 Birr UDC, provision of water supply, loan £10,200 & £1550, 1908-10 (s) 

12479/10 appointment of temporary assistant surveyor, Mr Craig, list of duties, 

subsistence allowances, 1908-10 (s) 

OPW5 – 12632/10 – 12905/10 

12632/10 Castlebar infirmary, BOW architect accidental conflict with private 

practice of Doolin and Butler, 1910 (vs) 

12634/10 various parliamentary questions (loose), 1901 (vs) 

128

12635/10 parliamentary questions in 1903 (loose) (vs) 

12643/10 Cape Clear harbour, Marine Works Act, completion of works, some 

activity of harbour constable, 1908-10 (m) 

12685/10 disposal of Ballycastle coastguard station, Mayo, tenancies etc, 1908-10 

(m) 

12696/10 Castlerea union workhouse, loan £800, residence for Sister of Mercy 

nurses, employed in workhouse (routine) (s) 

12761/10 general correspondence on inspection and repairs of piers and harbours, 

1902-10 (m) 

12905/10 Rathmines DMP barrack, proposed purchase of interest (incl nice plan of 

proposed new barrack), 1909-10 (s) 

OPW5 – 12923/10 – 13062/10 

12923/10 Cullen proposed national school, Cor, problem over excessive size of 

school (more than 300 pupils), threatened issue of grant, no construction 

on file (beautiful plans, specs), 1902-09 (bits?) (m) 

12924/10 Duxtown national school, Limerick, construction, usual (no plans), 1908- 

10 (s) 

12925/10 Derrinard national school, Cork (Schull) (BOW type II plans: new kind, 

large size, specs), 1908-10 (s) 

12933/10 Dublin corporation loan, for housing, Inchicore & Brides Alley, special 

permission sought from Treasury from BOW in circumstances, 1910 (s) 

12991/10 Claran, Cloghanovar teacher’s residences, changes in occupancy (BOW 

plans), 1893-1910 (s) 

Mullaghmullen/Croaghan round tower and vault, proposed vesting 

rejected (photos) (s) 

13000/10 teacher’s residence, Cloaghanovere national school, Galway, mother and 

son teachers (BOW plans, specs), 1895-1910 (s) 

13082/10 teacher’s residence, Dangan, Roscommon, (BOW plans, specs), usual 

stuff, 1908-10 (s) 

OPW5 – 13070/10 – 13628/10 

13070/10 Mount Delvin national school, Roscommon, improvements, good general 

letters (loose), 1908-10 (s) 

13071/10 national school improvements, grants in excess of normal two thirds 

(loose), 1910 (s) 

13078/10 teacher’s residence, Ballinagar, Kings County, loan £250, usual (specs for 

concrete walls, BOW plans no 1, specs) (g) (s) 

13081/10 Ballyfenan national school, Galway, building and improvts (BOW plans, 

specs), 1901-10 (m) 

13152/10 estimate for painting 3 coastguard stations in Mayo (t) 

129

13292/10 agreements for telephone fixtures placed in Crown buildings (mostly way 

leaves), 1907-10 (bits?) (m) 

13590/10 Irish Land Commission, outlying houses, redistribution of office 

accommodation after erection of new buildings at rere of no.23, 1908-10 

(s) 

13628/10 Dunmore East harbour, regulation of fish traffic, mostly tenancies of huts 

(great notice of regulation by BOW) (bits?) (m) 

OPW5 – 13515/10 – 14627/10 

13515/10 Great Southern Railway Company, proposed bridge at Camus over River 

Mourne, near Sion Mills (good plan) & bridge over River Bann at 

Portadown, seeking BOW approval, certified (1906) (s) 

13635/10 Hospital glebe, Limerick, £250, usual stuff (lovely plans, specs) (ok) (s) 

13633/10 North Dublin RDC, loans for waterworks & sewerage, Howth reservoir, 

£9000 & £7800 (routine legal) (s) 

13739/10 Athlone RDC, sinking wells and erecting pumps, loan £600, five villages 

(routine) (s) 

13877/10 College of Science, substitution of granite facing for bricks, 1910 (vs) 

Skryne national school, Meath, improvts (loose), 1909-10 (s) 

14061/10 Dunnycove coastguard station & signal station (construction notes on this, 

with lovely plan/elevation of signal house): file mostly on disuse and 

disposal (good maps), nice bits (m) 

14071/10 Clonakilty UDC, loans sewerage works (£1500), water supply 

improvements (£300) (routine), 1908-10 (s) 

14209/10 Howth harbour, alteration of bye-laws (lots of notices), 1903-10 (ok), 

(bits?) (s) 

14267/10 Board comments on alleged erosion problem at Donaghadee, 1910 (s) 

OPW5 – 14330/10 – 14916/10 

14330/10 Borris-on-Ossory Drainage Board, rates and trustees, 1904-10 (m) 

14400/10 dredgers at Kingstown Harbour, estimates, sales, 1906-10 (bits?) (m) 

14814/10 teacher’s residence, Kilmovee, Mayo, £250 (BOW plans, specs), usual, 

1908-10 (g) (s) 

14904/10 Dundalk UDC, sewerage extension works, £1500 (routine), 1910 (s) 

14916/10 national school, Gurteen, Galway, Ballymacaward, building and 

improvements (BOW plans etc), usual, 1886-1910 (g) (s) 

OPW5 – 15075/10 – 15932/10 

15075/10 Killian national school, Galway, lots good letters on original construction 

in 1859-60, then some general letters on improvts, 1858-1910 (s) 

130

15044/10 National Schools general: Treasury correspondence re revision plans and 

costs (no plans), mostly 1906-07 (ml) 

15216/10 Fairview post office, building and improvements, water supply in 1890s, 

additions (tracings, site maps) (vg) (ml) 

15250/10 Mourne Abbey, Cork, glebe loan £434, usual (lovely plans, specs), 1909- 

10 (g) (ms) 

15628/10 Shannon Navigation: sale of strip of land to Athlone UDC, 1908-10 (s) 

15932/10 revised 25 inch map of Phoenix Park in offing, 1898-1910 (s) 

OPW5 – 15962/10 – 16524/10 

15962/10 Dunmore Harbour, rent due by Patrick O’Toole (petty sessions stamp) (s) 

15992/10 Dublin Castle – repair to Chapel Royal organ (loose), 1909-10 (s) 

16128/10 Ringsend female national school, improvements, usual (nice plans, specs) 

(g) (s) 

16251/10 assessment of monuments on estate of Capt Townshend, Cork, not vested 

in the end (photo), (s) 

16271/10 Ballyhaise national school, Cavan, improvements, offices in 1908, usual 

(plans, specs), 1867-1910 (s) 

16275/10 Triogue river Drainage Board, Queens County, rates, trustees, 1904-09 

(m) 

16524/10 Hind River Drainage Board, Roscommon, rates & trustees, complaints re 

Shannon floods, 1898-1910 (m) 

OPW5 – 16844/10 – 17107/10 

16844/10 Public Works Loans Bills, comments & loans written off, 1908-1910 (ok) 

(ms) 

16864/10 Aglish national school (loose), improvts, repairs to old school (no plans), 

1909-10 (s) 

16879/10 inquiry into internal destruction of OPW registers, excellent (loose), 1910 

(s) 

17000/10 Dunmore East harbour, arrears of rent for stores, Isaac Shipsey dispute, 

1896-1910 (s) 

17032/10 Dunmore East harbour – management/letting of stores, rent arrears, 1903- 

10 (s) 

17085/10 Dunmore East harbour, maintenance of stores (mainly painting doors) 

(ms) 

17107/10 College of Science, fittings, submission of plans to dept for observations, 

1909-10 (m) 

OPW5 – 17119/10 – 17357/10 

131

17119/10 Akeaton glebe, Limerick, Revd John Lee PP, usual repts etc (lovely plans, 

elevs, specs), 1909-10 (qg) (ms) 

17144/10 Kilfinane convent national school, Limerick, restoring and improving old 

school destroyed by fire, detailed works (very nice plans, specs etc) (vg) 

(m) 

17211/10 construction of Fitzgibbon St DMP barracks (ml) 

17292/10 Public Health, water supply loan, Tuam RDC, £700 (loose) (routine), 1910 

(s) 

17357/10 Coolnahorna national school, Waterford, rebuilding job of 1844 school, 

nice letters, 1909-10 (s) 

OPW5 – 17372/10 – 17677/10 

17372/10 loan to Dublin Co Council, £5000, steam rolling roads in Balrothery RDC, 

report of Collen Co Surveyor (routine) (loose) (s) 

17433/10 Cloughduv girls national school, Cork, 1907-10, installing cooking grates, 

stove (nice plans) (s) 

17496/10 Cork post office, structural repairs and works: creation of Cork Telegraph 

Engineer’s Stores (lots lovely plans, excellent diagram of BOW heating 

appliances in pocket), 1892-1910 (m) 

17550/10 Dunmore Drainage Board (Galway), usual, 1898-1910 (m) 

Slane boys and girls national school, vesting ends, inquiry if sensible to 

renovate or build new school (best to new build) (lovely plan of old 

school), 1905-10 (bits?) (s) 

17677/10 national school grants – proposed transfer of services to Commissioners of 

Education who want to set up their own architectural office, averted, 

1894-1910 (m) 

OPW5 – 75/11 – 567/11 

75/11 Coolmountain national school, Inchigeela, Cork, Revd Hurley (specs), 

improvts, science press etc, 1908-10 (ok) (s) 

83/11 Wicklow harbour commissioners, conflict over BOW not giving balance 

of loan, nice report, 1910-28 (s) 

325/11 Liscannor harbour, Clare, lamplighting arrangements, 1910-11 (s) 

372/11 Blackrock UDC, loan £14500 & suppl. £500, working class houses, at 

Brookfield, 1907-11 (mostly routine, interesting gen question discussed 

early on), (s) 

444/11 Buttermarket post office, Cork, original conversion to abolition of 

telegraph office (nice plans), 1893-1911 (ms) 

461/11 loan Tipperary PLU, workhouse, electric lighting, £2280 (routine), 1910- 

11 (s) 

132

538/11 Fries national school, Farranfore, Kerry, construction (BOW4 plans, 

specs), (no Bangor slates recommended for west of Ireland), 1907-11, 

usual (qg) (ms) 

567/11 Post offices general: fixing iron bars to windows, 1909-10 (s) 

OPW5 – 780/11 – 1010/11 

780/11 Kingstown harbour, automatic weighing and sweetmeat machines on East 

Pier (incl accident to deaf and dumb child), 1892-1911 (bits) (m) 

847/11 Cloghan teacher’s residence, Donegal, Revd McQuade, improvts (plans, 

specs), 1906-11 (qg) (ms) 

856/11 Killawillan/Monaminny glebe, Cork, fire damage and insurance repairs, 

1892-1911 (s) 

885/11 Dunany Point coastguard station, sale of property, (g big auction notice), 

1906-11 (good early letters), (ml) 

1005/11 loans, working class houses, Bandon Road, Cork city, by Thomas Golden, 

(good map, no plans), 1877-1922 (vg) (s) 

1010/11 Cleggan north pier extension, provision of mooring rings and fenders for 

Limerick steamship Co (good plans, photo), 1909-11 (s) 

OPW5 – 1047/11 – 1539/11 

1047/11 Cloghoola national school, 1911 repairs (vs) 

Glacis Lodge, Magazine Fort, Phoenix Park, new water supply (map) (vs) 

1052/11 Kilvine national school, Ballindine, construction (BOW2 plans, specs), 

1902-11 (usual) (pg) (ms) 

1228/11 piers and harbours, related to general development of Irish fisheries, grants 

from Development Fund (extracts from PP Irish Development 

Commission), 1911 (s) 

1338/11 Kingstown harbour: pier and quay master’s house, sewage problem, 

allowances (beautiful 1902 harbour chart, other lovely tracings), 1896- 

1911 (bits) (ml) 

1539/11 Waterford post office, extenstion and alterations by TJ Mellon (lots plans, 

2 lovely photos), 1909-11 (ml) 

OPW5 – 1687/11 – 3639/11 

1687/11 Cork inland revenue and other government offices in Cork city, easements 

and encroachments (exct OS maps showing every building) (s) 

1638/11 return of labourers with personal data, in BOW service (incl Phoenix Park 

etc), retirements, 1894-1919 (m) 

2947/11 renovation of portraits in viceregal lodge (pictures of kings), 1911 (vs) 

3215/11 loan Fermoy UDC, waterworks, £850 1910-11 (routine) (s) 

133

3224/11 Renard Point, Sligo, completion of works on pier, beach materials being 

used to annoyance of local council: apologies (nice image of ladder) (bits) 

(m) 

3310/11 St Patricks Chapel, Kildare, vesting proposal, 1911 (vs) 

3380/11 Schull coastguard station, provision of water supply, replacing tanks with 

town water supply, 1909-11 (s) 

3407/11 Killoughteen teacher’s residence, Limerick (specs, shredded plan), query 

on later occupancy, 1876-1910 (s) 

3617/11 works at Yellow Steeple (national monument), Trim, Meath, 1911 (vs) 

3632/11 Carlow PLU, workhouse loan, £2650, water supply and drainage scheme, 

1910-11 (routine) (s) 

3639/11 Cavan UDC, loan £3500, working class lodging houses in Cavan town 

(refusal due to indebtedness), 1910-11 (s) 

OPW5 – 3779/11 – 3931/11 

3779/11 Union Hall pier, Cork (A), need for repairs, lengthy negligence of County 

Council, excellent engineer’s report (exct plans), 1897-1910 (s) 

3781/11 Mill Cove pier, Cork (B), inspection and repairs 1903-11 (s) 

Glandore pier, Cork (C.), inspection and repairs, 1903-11 (s) 

3849/11 Owenbeg national teacher residence, loan £250 (BOW plans 1, specs), 

1910-11 (usual, ok) (s) 

3918/11 Shannon Navigation, letting plot to Athlone boat club, for boathouse 

erection, also plot for Carnegie Library (lovely sketch of corrugated iron 

clubhouse), 1905-11 (bits) (s) 

3919/11 letter from Irish Arterial Drainage Association to BOW, 1911 (vs) 

3864/11 Cabra sewerage discharging through Phoenix Park drains (some good 

memos, maps), 1907-11 (bits) (m) 

3931/11 Ballyvaughan proposed RIC barracks (nice plan), 1904-11 (s) 

OPW5 – 5731/11 – 6670/11 

5731/11 Killiney & Ballybrack UDC, loan £300, shelter at Victoria Hill park 

(loose) (s) 

5742/11 National schools general: issue of copies of plans etc, 1905-11 (s) 

5744/11 Rathangan national school, Kildare, construction (BOW2 plans, 2 photos) 

(bits?) (s) 

5859/11 Naas UDC, sewerage scheme, £3280, a little on unpunctuality (most 

routine), 1908-11 (s) 

5892/11 Tydavnet national teacher’s residence, re widow still living in house – 

acceptable (no plans, site map), 1892-1910, (ok) (s) 

6041/11 Shannon Navigation, A Mackey’s claim for loss of eels due to working of 

sluice at Killaloe (nice notice), 1904-11 (qg) (s) 

134

6061/11 contracts and breaches of fair wages resolution, Martin’s – cabinet makers, 

working on Athy post office, 1908-11 (s) 

6387/11 Waterford bridge, Tipperary south riding co council, loan £11037, 1911 

(routine) (s) 

6458/11 Follistown drainage, increased rents on Donaldson estates (interesting 

complaints and BOW investigation), 1889-1911 (s) 

6491/11 College of Science, fatal accident to labourer, 1911 (vs) 

6670/11 Edenderry PLU, dispensary house, Rhode dispensary district (no plans, 

interesting issues), 1881-1911 (s) 

OPW5 – 7292/11 – 8070/11 

7292/11 Waterford-Dungarvan railway & Fermoy-Waterford railway, BOW 

comments & inquiry (lots newspaper cuttings), 1890-1911 (m) 

7321/11 Botanic Gardens – damage to car claim, damage to gateway at tea-house, 

1907-11 (s) 

7338/11 note on failure to locate places to put excise offices, July 1911 (t) 

7518/11 Phoenix Park – ladies lavatory and retiring room (extension and 

renovation, nice plans), 1909-11 (s) 

7543/11 Dalkey UDC, loan £1350, working class housing (routine), 1910-11 (s) 

7663/11 Kilmore pier, Wexford (B), question of repair, silting & dredging, post 

construction (1886-89), 1896-1911 (m) 

7781/11 Clonmel Corporation, £5000 loan, working class housing (routine), 1910- 

11 (s) 

7789/11 Roundstone pier, Marine Works Act, tolls, by-laws, appointment of 

constable, 1908-11 (m) 

7843/11 Fermoy PLU, workhouse water supply, loan £250 (routine), 1910-11 (s) 

8070/11 Dromina (Limerick) national teacher residence, sale of estate and claim 

(no plans), (usual, ok), 1884-1911 (s) 

OPW5 – 8072/11 – 10037/11 

8072/11 Kingstown Harbour – sale of hopper barge, June 1911 (vs) 

8089/11 Scariff RDC, Mountshannon water supply, loan £250 (routine), 1910-11 

(s) 

8109/11 cost of erection of post office buildings generally (s) 

8149/11 Ballingarriff glebe, Tipperary, Revd James Lanigan, loan £300 (lovely 

plans, specs, not BOW), 1907-11 (usual, vg) (ml) 

8150/11 Tullaghbegley glebe, Donegal, Revd John Boyle, £900 (lovely plans, 

specs), 1910-11 (usual, qg) (s) 

10033/11 National Gallery extension, ancient lights on 88 Merrion Square (exct 

plans, maps), 1898-1911 (m) 

10037/11 DMP Great Brunswick St, re acquisition of site and completion of lease 

(no plans), 1910-11 (bits) (m) 

135

OPW5 – 11304/11 – 11712/11 

11304/11 Mallow national convent school, construction, improvts (early plans, specs 

etc), 1904-11 (vg) (ml) 

11387/11 Fethard disused coastguard station, sale of house no 3 to Mrs Hornick (no 

plans), 1911 (s) 

11305/11 Raphoe teacher’s residence, Donegal, Revd Samuel Meek (BOW1 plans, 

specs), 1909-11 (ok) (s) 

11399/11 Clarine dispensary and dispensary residence, Limerick, (good plans, 

specs), simple, estimates, 1887-1911 (g) (s) 

11490/11 Labour exchanges general: particulars as to accommodation for use of 

inter-departmental committee, 1911 (s) 

11626/11 Knocksaxon national school, Mayo (near Strade) (BOW plans, 65 pupils, 

specs), 1907-11 (qg) (s) 

11679/11 Corrib drainage district, query to view BOW maps, 1911 (vs) 

11712/11 Eglish national school, Kings County (near Birr) (BOW4, specs), 1907-11 

(qg) (s) 

OPW5 – 11712/11 – 12139/11 

11721/11 Barnaderg teacher’s residence, John Keaveney (BOW1, specs, etc), 1909- 

11 (usual) (s) 

11722/11 Ballybot, national school residence, Newry area, Revd Smartt (no plans), 

1907-11 (usual) (s) 

11775/11 telephone attachment in Dublin Castle, 1911 (vs) 

11799/11 Dispensary residence, Dunganstown, Wicklow (lovely plans, specs etc), 

1904-11 (s) 

11803/11 Dublin County Council, loan £493, concreting footpaths in Terenure, 1911 

(s) 

11812/11 Ballymaglaff national teacher’s residence, Co Down (BOW1 plans, specs 

etc) (ok) (s) 

11817/11 unsanitary dormitory bedclothes in Botanic Gardens labourer’s cottages, 

1911 (vs) 

11823/11 inspection and certificate of safety for boilers in Dundrum asylum, 1911 

(vs) 

11841/11 Renmore coastguard station, encroachment on War Dept property, re 

transfer of buildings and property stuff (s) 

upkeep and transfer proposed of under-secretary’s demesne, Phoenix Park, 

1911 (s) 

11937/11 Liscannor coastguard station, boat-slip (loose), repairs, 1911 (vs) 

11992/11 Mayo Co Council, loans for bridge improvements, in Belmullet RDC 

(£1019) and Killala (£1300) (routine but good bits) (s) 

12020/11 Dublin Castle state apartments, Bathroom for royal visit, 1911 (s) 

136

12049/11 Carlingford coastguard station, letting houses, 1910-11 (routine) (s) 

12139/11 Downies Bay, erection of light at end of pier (by BOW), 1910-11 (s) 

OPW5 – 12189/11 – 12408/11 

12189/11 post offices general: expenditure incurred at crown post offices re national 

telephone services (mostly very routine) (ml) 

12210/11 old fishing smacks in Cape Clear harbour – removal by harbour constable, 

1911 (s) 

12229/11 Kilmactige national school, Revd TH Quin, new fireguards, 1910-11 (vs) 

12230/11 Ballindereen teacher’s residence, Kilcolgan, Galway (BOW1 plans, 

specs), 1906-11 (usual, ok) (s) 

12329/11 Phoenix Park and Stephen’s Green: larceny of flowers, shrubs etc (good 

notices) (ms) 

12336/11 vesting national school, Blackstaff, Monaghan (nice plans), good general 

letters, 1910-14 (s) 

12353/11 Carlingford glebe, Louth, Revd Quinn PP, building & improvements 

(good plans), 1908, 1890 (qg) (m) 

12408/11 Kingstown harbour, damage to mail packet pier by fireworks (s) 

OPW5 – 12260/11 – 13151/11 

12260/11 Bragan national school, Monaghan, Revd J McKenna PP, original 

construction and new classrooms (BOW plans, 1883, 1908), Leask the 

inspection (qg) (s) 

12665/11 promotion of clerks in OPW, 1911 (vs) 

12995/11 Ballinagaul harbour, Co Waterford (A), inspections, silting dispute with 

Waterford Co Council (s) 

13009/11 transfer of the national telephones to the post office department (loose), 

1904-11 (m) 

13069/11 Charleville national school, Cork, improvements (local plans good), 1908- 

11 (s) 

13084/11 Mitchelstown PLU, loan for repairs to dispensary residence, fire 1910, 

(orig plans good, specs), 1903-11 (s) 

13085/11 Mitchelstown dispensary, Cork, erection (lovely plans), 1909-11 (usual) 

(s) 

13089/11 Kings County Council loan, £350, new road at Endrim (nice plans) 

(routine) (s) 

13109/11 Cross at Gartan, Donegal and natal stone of Columba (loose), (photos) 

vesting rejected (s) 

13151/11 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, extermination of bugs, 1903-11 (s) 

137

OPW5 – 13195/11 – 15545/1 

13195/11 Annagh glebe house, Cavan, 1883-1911 (nice original plans) (s) 

13292/11 Grenagh glebe, Cork, Revd Lawrence Murphy, erection, usual reports 

(nice plans, specs), 1910-11 (s) 

13293/11 Kilquade glebe, Wicklow, Revd Wm Duggan, purchase of curate’s house 

and improvements (site map, plan), 1911 (ok) (s) 

13397/11 College of Science, opening ceremony, Kings visit (seating plans), 1911 

(s) 

13419/11 proposed vesting of Castlereagh Castle, Longford, rejected (photos, plans), 

1911 (s) 

13967/11 Shannon Navigation, plot at Athlone held by A Mackey, mostly property 

management (nice plans of weirs, RT), 1905-11 (ml) 

14129/11 Dublin Corporation seeking to charge for water or threatening to cut it off, 

from Dublin Castle, 1910-11 (m) 

15545/11 Phoenix Park spa well, 1870s-1911 (s) 

OPW5 – 15988/11 – 16299/11 

15988/11 BOW comments on Rights of Way Bill, 1911 (nice Bann Navigation 

plans) (m) 

16228/11 Downings Bar pier, soundings taken off pier (nice plans), 1911 (vs) 

16014/11 Howth harbour and Rights of Way bill, 1911 (vs) 

16251/11 revision to specifications for national schools, 1907-11 (ml) 

16254/11 grant to Waterford Corporation for city bridge, 1905-20 (s) 

16299/11 Dundalk post office, site location, construction, contractor’s problems 

(lots exct plans), 1898-1902 (l) 

OPW5 – 16333/11 – 16545/11 

16333/11 Ballintobber glebe, Roscommon, James Martin PP (lovely plans, specs 

etc), 1909-11 (usual, g) (s) 

16340/11 Donegal Co Council, loan £600, road improvements Ballyshannon (ok 

problem) (s) 

16344/11 Dublin Corporation, Small Dwellings Acquisition Act, 1899, loan £10,000 

(loose) (routine) (s) 

16428/11 Moyrus glebe, Galway, erection, Revd Pat Gleeson PP (good plans, 

specs), 1910-11 (s) 

16443/11 certificates of apportionment, corr with printers, arterial drainage (vs) 

16463/11 loan, application of Dublin & South-Eastern Railway, made and rejected, 

correspondence, April 1911 (s) 

16490/11 land loans inspector, appointment of Calvert, 1909-11 (s) 

138

16494/11 Lord George Charles Bingham, loan under Land Improvement Act 1864, 

two storey and one storey artisans and other houses for Spencer St and 

Rock Square, Castlebar (lovely plans, specs, good correspondence) (m) 

16545/11 St John’s boy’s national school residence, 1911 (s) 

OPW5 – 165/12 – 2339/12 

165/12 land loan inspectors, promotion, salaries etc, 1905-12 (s) 

210/12 St Catherine’s national school, Dublin, construction & improvements 

(play shed) (row between Commissioners of Education & BOW: middle 

1907) (some plans, no elevations), 1900-12 (bits) (ml) 

212/12 Meath Co Council 4 loans, totaling c.£16000, for steamrolling roads 

(routine) (s) 

280/12 Sligo employment exchange, conversions (good plans, elevations, photos), 

1910-12 (m) 

290/12 Portumna bridge, Galway Co Council, loan £10,000, 1911 (routine) (s) 

1382/12 building re grocery at Islandbridge (RHK), 1911 (vs) 

2339/12 Kingstown Harbour, East Pier battery, surrender and caretaking of gun 

battery (one good plan), 1910-12 (bits) (m) 

OPW5 – 2421/12 – 3710/12 

2421/12 Cork City railway Act, 1906, construction, contributions? etc (good 

cuttings, photos), question of BOW monitoring grant, 1907-12 (bits) (m) 

3162/12 hiring agreement for dredgers, overtime rates etc, 1912 (s) 

3247/12 Ard East pier, Galway, inspection etc of CDB pier, 1909-12 (s) 

3259/12 Lettermore pier, Galway, inspections and repairs, 1906-12 (s) 

3324/12 Kilmacduane glebe loan, construction and additions (title question) 

(Leask) (nice plans), 1888-1912 (ms) 

3403/12 Drumlish national school, Longford, improvements, enlargement designed 

by BOW (Leask), 1911-12 (s) 

3533/12 Dawson national school, Monaghan (near Newbliss), improvements, 

1873-1912 (pg) (ms) 

3710/12 loan £8150 to Waterford Co Council, erecting bridge over River Suir 

(small problems), (routine), 1910-11 (bits) (ms) 

OPW5 – 3828/12 – 4265/12 

3828/12 Dooagh national school, Achill, construction, damp problems (plans etc), 

1887-1912 (qg) (m) 

3920/12 election of drainage Board trustees, Boyne, legal problem, 1912 (s) 

4066/12 College of Science, statements of contract variations, (plans lavatories), 

1908-11 (ms) 

139

4091/12 lease of Ring Bar coastguard station site, 1890-1912 (bits) (s) 

4183/12 Donegal Co Council, letter Kerry asylum water supply loan, £5109, 1909- 

12 (routine) (s) 

4191/12 Castletown national school, Cork (Eniskean), small repairs, 1912 (s) 

4265/12 Limerick harbour, BOW to sanction lettings (property management), 

1902-05 (m) 

OPW5 – 5288/12 – 5415/12 

5288/12 Easky pier, Sligo (unclassed), inspection and repairs, 1903-12 (qg) (s) 

5232/12 general information on loans for dispensary residences etc (spec for 

Tubercurry workhouse medical residence), 1887-1912 (s) 

5347/12 proposed artisans dwellings, North Circular Road, Dublin, loan to Ellis & 

Langley (lovely plans, elevations, specs) (lots correspondence), 1890-1912 

(m) 

5348/12 Dublin Co Council, loan £500, Rathfarnham courthouse (to buy site and 

build petty sessions court) (routine), 1890-1912 (s) 

5351/12 Loughrea RDC, loan £1000 to improve Loughrea waterworks (routine), 

1911-12 (s) 

5415/12 Rosslare coastguard station, improved drainage, problems (lovely plan of 

sewerage disposal tanks) (closure of Naval Battery 31 March 1910: plans 

of site) (loose?), 1907-12 (bits) (m) 

OPW5 – 5531/12 – 8572/12 

5531/12 Emly glebe, Tipperary, Revd John Counery CC, additional bathroom and 

closet (nice orig plans, specs, later plans closets), 1897-1912 (s) 

5557/12 Caherleheen national school, Kerry, mostly site location, 1907-12 (s) 

5654/12 Mathew Beary, 2 nd division clerk transfer from Land Commission, 1912 

(loose) (s) 

6762/12 Enniscorthy UDC, loan £3500, erecting working class houses (loose), 


6890/12 Sherkin Island teacher’s residence, Cork, Revd James Lyons PP (routine) 

(BOW1), 1911-41 (s) 

6965/12 Tullow monastery national school, Revd James Fogarty, to drain 

furnace/heating chamber, 1912 (s) 

7001/12 Book of reference to deposited plans in connection with Athy & Queen’s 

County District Light Railway, 1912 (s) 

7201/12 Annagassen pier, Louth, order of 1912 (printed local bill, re byelaws etc 

(s) 

8356/12 Kilronan & Roundstone piers, Galway, Marine Works Act, toll collection 

(loose), 1910-12 (bits?) (s) 

8486/12 Marine Works Act, procedure no 2, general memos etc, 1905-12 (ms) 

140

8572/12 Cahernanackree earthworks and Minard Castle, vesting proposal (plans) 

(s) 

OPW5 – 8854/12 – 12100/12 

8854/12 promotion of clerical staff, 1905-12 (s) 

9419/12 outbreak of foot and mouth disease, Phoenix Park, (orders), 1912 (s) 

10021/12 Fermoy glebe, Cork, Revd WJ Flack, purchase house and premises (plan), 

(usual, ok) (vs) 

10509/12 St Stephen’s Green, WCs and Urinal (replacement and management 

(lovely plans), 1895-1912 (s) 

11555/12 Tarmonbarry sluices and Longford Drainage District, Shannon causes 

floods on Camlin River (nice sketch), 1897-1912 (s) 

11666/12 County contributions under Marine Works Act (disputes), 1905-12 (s) 

11713/12 Fantstown Castle, Limerick, vesting proposal, 1911-12 (s) 

12100/12 College of Science, expenditure under Public Offices Site Act (1903) (lots 

on fittings and other expenses), 1902-12 (m) 

OPW5 – 12183/12 – 12553/12 

12183/12 Letterkenny railway, proposed sale of line, relief of guaranteeing areas, 

1898-1912 (ml) 

12209/12 St Mary’s Convent national school, Nenagh, Tipperary (very detailed, 

beautiful plans), 1908-12 (ml) 

12418/12 new entrance to Science & Art Museum (ie Natural History Museum) (lots 

wonderful plans), 1908-12 (m) 

12553/12 Farraniaragh national school, Kerry (near Waterville) (loose), construction 

and improvement (BOW plans), 1894-1912 (s) 

OPW5 – 12587/12 – 12727/12 

12587/12 Clonakilty UDC, loan £1800 (loose), erection of artisan’s dwellings 


12590/12 Maryborough asylum loan, £1500 (loose), remodeling heating apparatus 

(s) 

12650/12 Goresbridge national school, Kilkenny, very detailed (lots local plans & 

BOW furniture drawings), 1902-12 (l) 

12678/12 Kings County Council, loan £3380, Portumna Bridge share in erection 

(loose), 1911-12 (s) 

12727/12 surrender of Brow Head auxiliary look-out hut (small sketch plan), 1912 

(s) 

141

OPW5 – 12859/12 – 15975/12 

12859/12 commemorative medals for 1911 Royal Visit for various constables, 1912 

(s) 

12899/12 Knockastoler national school, Donegal (loose), repairs for revesting after 

death of monarch, 1911-12 (s) 

12953/12 Emly dispensary, Tipperary, erection of residence cum dispensary 

(problems with builders altering first approved plans), 1906-12 (m) 

15975/12 Howth harbour, arrears of fishing dues/licences, prosecutions, 1908-12 

(m) 

OPW5 – 12962/12 – 17356/12 

12962/12 drowning and placing life-buoys at Athlone quay, Shannon Navigation 

(nice map), 1910-12 (s) 

15267/12 navigation & reclamation: Blackwater, Brede, Suir, proposed grants to 

counties, 1906-12 (l) 

17356/12 Cloonahenogue canal bank, Shannon Navigation (near Meelick), problem 

of public right of way, 1902-12 (l) 

OPW5 – 1397/13 – 5764/13 

1397/13 Roscam round tower and church, Galway (s)* 

1592/13 The Cashelstone ‘cromlech’, Cavan (sketches, photos), vesting proposal 

(s)* 

2019/13 Ballynacarriga castle, Cork (nat mons), vesting proposal (s)* 

4746/13 Phoenix Park cricket ground – management and care (m)* 

5630/13 Green St DMP barracks, alterations (floor plans) (ms)* 

5639/13 care of Athlone Castle, Carrickfergus Castle, Enniskillen Castle, King 

John’s Castle (nat mons) (photos etc) (s)* 

5725/13 personnel file for TJ McInerney, staff clerk (s)* 

5764/13 breakdown of monthly expenditure and works progress on the different 

projects in each Irish district (by architect), 1913-14, large forms, 

interesting on each work (l)* 

OPW5 – 6294/13 – 11682/13 

6294/13 coastguard inspection of pier at St John’s Point (also Ballysaggart, 

Donegal) (2pp) 

6429/13 padlocks for national monuments (s)* 

6891/13 Government offices, plan of allocation of offices, perfect floor plans for 

every floor (with names of officers areas) (s)** 

142

7500/13 Howth harbour, accommodation for fishing industry, improvements 

proposed etc (m)* 

7560/13 Phoenix Park, treasury contribution in lieu of rates (s)* 

7866/13 Mathewstown cromlech, Waterford (excellent photos etc) (s)* 

7981/13 Callanafersy rath, Kerry, vested (sketches etc) (s)* 

8119/13 standing stones at Gurranes, Cork (sketches, photos etc), vesting proposal 

rejected (s)* 

8811/13 Beagh castle, Limerick, vesting proposal rejected (photos, plan) (s)* 

9528/13 loan for greystones water supply (Rathdown RDC) (1p) 

11672/13 Irishtown glebe, loan, Sandymount (usual) (s) 

11675/13 Dungarvan UDC, loan £4500, auxiliary water scheme (s) 

11677/13 Galway RDC, loan £400, Tawin water supply (s) 

11682/13 Rossdohan quay, Kerry, inspections etc, good 1947 letter (s)* 

OPW5 – 11716/13 – 12182/13 

11716/13 loan to John Doyle for labourer’s dwellings on South Circular Road (lots 

plans) (vg) (m)* 

11718/13 Kilkenny County Council: sum paid in reduction of loans is allowed (s) 

11742/13 Royal Harbours – regulations re visits of foreign warships (s)* 

11777/13 Galway UDC, loan £6398, housing working classes (s) 

11857/13 Dundalk UDC loan (s) 

11890/13 Carrig Abbey, Kerry (plans etc) (s)* 

12039/13 various personnel issues respecting clerks and copyists in civil service 

(m)* 

12049/13 power of Drainage Board and trustees to clear drains not in district (s)* 

12182/13 Kingstown Harbour, storage of yachts (bits) (m) 

OPW5 – 12186/13 – 14532/13 

121186/13 Kingstown Harbour: Workmen’s Compensation Act 1905 – cases (m)* 

12248/13 Kings County Council – loan for steam roller (£650) and stone crusher 

(£350) (s) 

12265/13 Kilmacow convent national school, Kilkenny construction (ml) 

14363/13 ancient gateways of Fore, Westmeath (sketches etc) (ms)* 

14532/13 Inishglora island ruins, Mayo (lovely sketches etc) (s)* 

OPW5 – 14603/13 – 15145/13 

14603/13 letters re ancient monuments 1913 (s)* 

14703/13 Staigue Fort, works and repairs (plans etc) (ms)* 

14708/13 Kilmalkedar church and gallerus, castle, ogham stone etc, Kerry (s)* 

14868/13 national schools general – book presses for libraries (ms)* 

143

14872/13 Hall St, Ballybay, Monaghan school and training college (s) 

14951/13 Kill o the Grange – church ruins Rathdown (work etc) (s)* 

14952/13 Clondalkin round tower, granite cross etc, works etc (ms)* 

14953/13 Rathmichael church and round tower, Cross, Dublin (photos, plans etc) 

(s)* 

14954/13 Church of St Begnet, Dalkey Island, Dublin (notes & sketches) (s)* 

15145/13 Kilfarboy glebe loan, (usual) (ms) 

OPW5 – 15229/13 – 16604/13 

15229/13 Bonmahon coastguard station, trespass question (s) 

15254/13 Tramore glebe, Waterford, loan for erection (ms) 

15271/13 Inchicore North Estate, valuations (s) 

15666/13 Shannon Navigation – letting to P Ryan of Dromeen (m) 

16343/13 Athcarne Cross, Meath – vesting proposal (sketches etc) (s)* 

16604/13 cromlech, ogham stone etc, Cloghnacomirca, Waterford, vesting proposal 

(s)* 

OPW5- 16780/13 – 17114/13 

16780/13 Kingstown harbour – dues payable by passenger steamers, 1910-13 (bits) 

(ml)* 

16849/13 Foynes harbour, raising rates and tolls under Public Works Loans Act, 

1906 (bits) (m)* 

17087/13 Four Courts, sanitary accommodation, new work (m)* 

17114/13 National Museum workshops (plans), including survey plan of buildings 

of Merrion Place (now demolished) (ml)* 

OPW5 – 9/14 – 345/14 

9/14 public buildings in Athy, water-supply (model school, post office) (s) 

29/14 teacher’s residence, St Patrick’s Drogheda (plans) (s) 

100/14 Drumcolumb church and stone cross, Sligo (nat mons) (4 photos) (s) 

174/14 Royal Harbours: dept of agriculture orders in prohibition of import of hay 

and straw (mostly forms) (m) 

203/14 revenue boat-houses, Donegal, espec Lettermacaward (NI letters seeking 

files), 1910-24 (m) 

354/14 Ballinaskelligs coastguard station, Kerry, letting of cottages, conversion 

into RIC station, 1908-13 (ml) 

OPW5 – 350/14 – 854/14 

144

350/14 Ballindereen national school, Galway (nice plans, simple file) (s) 

593/14 Phoenix Park: training racehorses, 1909-14 (g) (lots bits) (m)* 

625/14 St Joseph’s convent national school, Longford, new closets (s) 

667/14 Wexford portal inspection office (property), 1905-12 (s) 

768/14 national schools contractors need detail drawings for kindergarten desks 

(drawings) (s) 

795/14 Limerick post office repairs (nice drawing) (s) 

813/14 Ennistymon RDC: Lahinch sewerage loan (s) 

822/14 LGB inquiry into Dublin city working class housing: list of OPW loans (s) 

847/14 Inchicore North estate: appointment of caretaker, William Lee (vs) 

854/14 Galway custom house; bonded stores, leases etc (ms) 

OPW5 – 863/14 – 1177/14 

863/14 Moira RDC, loan for water supply: £650 (s) 

874/14 Bundoran convent national school, Donegal, improvts, 1911-13 (s) 

887/14 Lowertown national school teacher’s residence, estate death (vs) 

912/14 Clonmel RIC barrack, conversion, construction etc (plans, specs), 1905-13 

(ml)* 

929/14 Balla RIC barrack, Mayo, site purchase, 1913-14 (s) 

1008/14 Mallow post office; rearrangement of public offices (lots plans, specs), 

1912-13 (s) 

1083/14 Brandon quay coastguard station, cottages lettings (s) 

1177/14 Skibbereen post office: new safe, old safes (s) 

OPW5 – 1200/14 – 1299/14 

1200/14 College of Science, heating, 1910-14 (g) (m)* 

1242/14 Kilkenny convent national school (ripped plans), 1892-1913 (s) 

1270/14 Shannon navigation: weights for Killaloe (s) 

1287/14 Kilkeeran stone cross, Kilclisheen stone crosses, Kilkenny (lots plans etc), 

1879-1914 (s) 

1299/14 divisional officer’s house, coastguard station, Logmore, Belmullet, 1905- 

14 (ok) (m) 

OPW5 – 1401/14 – 1793/14 

1401/14 Shannon Navigation: plot at Carrick-on-Shannon bridge, lease (nice map), 

1877-1914 (s) 

1524/14 piers and harbours: Trawndaleen, Arran Island, Galway, repairs etc (nice 

sketches), 1908-13 (qg) (s) 

1567/14 BOW exempt from license duty: locomotives on highways, used in 

Phoenix Park (nice ads) (s) 

145

1572/14 Rosmoney: accommodation estimates (vs) 

1590/14 Heronstown teacher’s residence, Meath (nice plans), 1913-14 (s) 

1656/14 loan to purchase steamrolling machinery, Mayo Co Council, 1913-14 (s) 

1770/14 inquiry into accounting system in Congested Districts Board, chaired etc 

by OPW (vs) 

1772/14 parliamentary returns, grants and loans, Ireland, since 1886 (bits) (s) 

1793/14 Lawrence Cove coastguard station, new buildings (specs, no plans), 1912- 

14 (ms) 

OPW5 – 1866/14 – 2900/14 

1866/14 Queenstown national school, Cork (no plans), 1912-13 (ms) 

1873/14 Shannon Navigation, letting to Thomas Cowan etc (s) 

1877/14 National Insurance Commissioners, proposed purchase of 45 Merrion 

Square (qg) (s) 

1888/14 accommodation for Valuation Dept at Limerick and Waterford 1912-14 

(ms) 

2240/14 RHK and Linen Hall barracks: rent (good plan) (s) 

2356/14 Shannon Navigation, Scariff toll keeper, personnel, 1879-1914 (s) 

2727/14 Shannon Navigation, flooding (exct newspaper reports), 1913-15 (m) 

2900/14 St Anne’s convent national school, Roscommon, repairs (plans 

etc), 1913 (s) 

OPW5 – 2906/14 – 3158/14 

2906/14 Kingstown harbour: railway buffer stops (nice tracing) (vs) 

2978/14 National Schools general, parliamentary questions (s) 

2988/14 care of flowers in RIC depot, rejected by BOW (vs) 

3009/14 Ennis asylum sewerage loan, £3540 (nice plan), problem (s) 

3043/14 lettings to Irish Lights Board, mostly Kingstown (nice map), 1908- 

14 (m) 

3103/14 Brookvale Ave glebe loan, Belfast (specs), 1876 (s) 

3151/14 Shannon Navigation: proposed jetty at O’Brien’s bridge (lots plans 

etc), 1913-14 (s) 

3158/14 Shannon Navigation, increase pay to employees (s) 

OPW5 – 3159/14 – 3825/14 

3159/14 gratuity to Alfred Owen, draughtsman (s) 

3197/14 Kilcummin coastguard station, Mayo, disposal, 1905-13 (early 

bit?) (ml) 

3410/14 Inisturk breakwater & pier, repairs etc, plans, 1910-13 (g) (s) 

3356/14 building regulations in Ireland (vs) 

146

3451/14 Castletownshend coastguard station, right of way to lookout, 1912- 

14 (ok) (s) 

3454/14 Bellurgan national school, Louth, construction & repairs, presses, 

1911-13 (s) 

3495/14 Greencastle coastguard station, boathouse plot (s) 

3580/14 Royal Hospital Kilmainham: removal of old water tank (s) 

3590/14 Annacarter national school, Wicklow, vesting assessment (s) 

3602/14 national schools general: special sums granted (s) 

3827/14 St Canice’s boys national school, Queen’s County, 1909-13 (s) 

OPW5 – 3880/14 – 4187/14 

3880/14 Reengaroga national school, Cork, proposed cookery 

improvements (ms) 

3922/14 Rosnakill revenue boathouse, 1913-14 (s) 

4025/14 Newbridge national school, construction, improvements, 1912-14 

(ml) 

4089/14 coastguard report on a pier (p) (s) 

4090/14 Mount Charles pier, Donegal, repairs etc, 1845-1914 (s) 

4120/14 silence cabinet for Portal Inspection Office, Dublin (s) 

4128/14 Inchicore North Estate, artisan dwellings plot, the ‘Ranch’ (ms) 

4134/14 Lattin glebe, Tipperary (lovely plans), 1896-1914 (s) 

4186/14 Rosaveel approach road, Galway, pier repairs etc, 1888-1914 (s) 

4187/14 Bunahowna harbour, Galway, repairs etc, 1907-13 (s) 

OPW5 – 4188/14 – 5998/14 

4188/14 Oranmore pier, Galway, repairs etc (C. class) (m) 

Carrowmore pier (s) 

4191/14 Farramoyle slip, Galway (unclassed), repairs (vs) 

4192/14 Barna pier, Galway (B.) inspection and repairs (s) 

5709/14 Maryboro national school, Queens County (nice plans etc) (ms) 

5727/14 Glenamaddy workhouse loans, routine (s) 

5780/14 Iniskea slip, Mayo (B.), inspections and repairs (s) 

5810/14 Cappa coastguard station, Clare, tenancies (s) 

5833/14 OPW expenditure and arrangements (s) 

5887/14 Ballyvelaghan national teacher’s residence, Burren, 1911-14 (s) 

5934/14 Tarbert national school, improvements (vs) 

5952/14 loan of diver and gear to A. Mackey, 1910-13 (s) 

5998/14 Glasson dispensary residence, Athlone (lovely plans) (s) 

OPW5 – 6094/14 – 6219/14 

147

6094/14 Bouris national school residence, Mayo (BOW no 1), 1909-14 (s) 

6103/14 Arranmore no 2 national school, Donegal (BOW plans), 1909-14 

(s) 

6112/14 National Health Insurance Commissioners buildings at rear of 44-45 

Merrion Square, accommodation, Dublin Castle stables (s) 

6114/14 Central telephone exchange, Crown Alley: general file (plans, specs etc), 

1912-14 (ml)* 

6115/14 Houses, 64 Merrion Square, offices, 1881-1914 (beautiful plan of Earlsfort 

Terrace winter garden), 1881-1914 (ml)* 

6190/14 national schools vested in trustees: general (vs) 

6219/14 national insurance office, works, furniture 1912-14 (ms) 

OPW5 – 6223/14 – 6621/14 

6223/14 Castletownbere coastguard station, divisional officer’s house (cg work) 

(plans, specs), 1911-14 (m)*? 

6256/14 Four Courts: housekeepers and cleaners – personnel file (s) 

6294/14 Cornamona national school, Galway, improvements, 1904-14 (s) 

6422/14 lovely plan of Tubercurry presbytery (1p) 

6464/14 Lowpark national school, Mayo, large improvements, 1908-14 (ml) 

6481/14 Dingle harbour lighthouse (s) 

6484/14 chapel keeper’s residence, Dublin Castle, 1914 (s) 

6621/14 Inchicore North Estate, Worthington’s holdings (map), 1913-14 (bits?) (s) 

OPW5 – 6671/14 – 6933/14 

6671/14 Kingstown Harbour, vehicle control on approaches to Carlisle Pier, 

byelaws (s) 

6718/14 Accony national school, Mayo, lease expired (vs) 

6830/14 Garristown and Delvin drainage board, 1905-14 (bits?) (m) 

6836/14 Dublin Castle: official residences and government offices to be utilized (3 

plans) (s) 

6840/14 Linen Hall, Dublin: housing the Dublin Civic Exhibition, 1914 (property) 

(bit?) (ms) 

6841/14 Shannon Navigation, accident to Patrick Consodine (s) 

6888/14 Aughachashla national school, Kerry, improvements (s) 

6905/14 Glenbeg national school, Waterford, improvements (s) 

6933/14 Dungolman Drainage Board, 1904-14 (m) 

OPW5 – 7000/14 – 7251/14 

7000/14 Chapel convent national school, Wexford, 1913-14 (s) 

7011/14 Kilduff national school, Cavan, preliminaries to building (plan etc) (g) (m) 

148

7013/14 Carnowen national school, Donegal, contruction (BOW plans) (g) (m) 

7049/14 Limerick Customs and Excise office, Distillery station (plans) (vs) 

7074/14 Meath Co Council, loan for steamrolling, £1000 (repts) (s) 

7128/14 Coleraine model school, window boxes, 1909-14 (s) 

7132/14 Knock national school, Mayo, erection (g) (ms) 

7202/14 Leeson Lane national school, Dublin (Loreto) (ms) 

7232/14 Claremorris PLU loan (s) 

7237/14 Prisons Board, decoration of room in former La Touche Bank (2pp) 

7251/14 Knocktopher national school, Kilkenny (vs) 

OPW5 – 7320/14 – 7605/14 

7320/14 St Nicholas Monastery national school, Louth, erection (g) (m) 

7346/14 Drain testing, Green St DMP barracks (plan) (vs) 

7437/14 Claremorris RDC, loan £340, extending burial ground (s) 

7469/14 Kilmaine Drainage Board, 1907-14 (m) 

7487/14 Ballymacelligott glebe loan, Kerry (s) 

7515/14 Kildangan national school residence (s) 

7532/14 Gorthaganny national school residence, Roscommon (np) (s) 

7594/14 Cree national school, Clare, improvements (np) (s) 

7605/14 Contracts under £500: forms in use (financial organization) (m) 

OPW5 – 7613/14 – 7952/14 

7613/14 Kilkenny Mayor: loan for working class housing (s) 

St Mary’s Menlough, Galway, national school (s) 

7632/14 comments on Public Health Bill (Ireland) & labour exchanges (s) 

7685/14 Limerick post office accommodation for official bicycles (p) etc (s) 

7723/14 national schools, heating cloakrooms (s) 

7755/14 College of Science: electricity for experimental pumps (s) 

7789/14 Abbey national school, Kildare (s) 

7791/14 Graigue national school, Queens County, vesting (s) 

7810/14 St Joseph’s, Killenumery, Leitrim, teacher’s residence (BOW1) (s) 

7813/14 Foranwell Drainage Board, transferred to Kildare Co Council (m) 

7898/14 half day Saturday permitted to Botanic Gardens labourers (s) 

7817/14 Brickey part reclamation scheme (s) 

7872/14 proposed Rathmines post office (s) 

7924/14 River Skane Drainage Board, Meath (s) 

7952/14 Malin Head harbour, Donegal, (B), solid stuff, lots info (m) 

OPW5 – 8011/14 – 8434/14 

8011/14 Ballymichael national school, Donegal, erection etc (vg) (ml) 

149

8128/14 Basilick glebe house, Co Roscommon, improvements (s) 

8219/14 Ashburton national school, Monaghan, repairs (ms) 

8263/14 Inchicore North Estate, university boat club (interesting bits) (m) 

8303/14 Knockavilla teacher’s residence, Tipperary (usual) (s) 

8319/14 Buncrana & Rathmullen harbours, Sea Fishery Act (1913) (qg) (m) 

8392/14 Kinsale RDC: water-supply loan, £1950 (s) 

8434/14 Cork RDC loan, £4200 for Douglas sewerage scheme (s) 

OPW5 – 8470/14 – 8599/14 

8470/14 Shannon Navigation: arrangements respecting Battery lands at Athlone 

(ml) 

8531/14 Crosshaven convent national school, Cork, latrines and enclosing (s) 

8533/14 Curranes boys national school, Kerry, improvements (s) 

8538/14 Knockeenahone, Kerry (s) 

8599/14 Liscannor harbour, Marine Works Act, 1902 (good bits) (m) 

OPW5 – 8643/14 – 9115/14 

8638/14 post office training centre: furniture (s) 

8643/14 BOW and unemployment schemes (s) 

8675/14 Killalaghton national school residence, Galway (s) 

8750/14 Port Kinnegoe coastguard station, right of turbary to be included in sale 

(property management) (m) 

8766/14 Portumna Bridge loan: Limerick Co Council, loan (s) 

8821/14 Warner Lane national school, Cork, erection (s) 

9003/14 Ballycastle glebe, Mayo (p) (s) 

9035/14 Ramspark national school, Mayo, improvements (s) 

9047/14 national schools general: clerks of works (s) 

9114/14 Galway PLU, loan sanitary workhouse inspectors (s) 

9115/14 Loughrea PLU, loan fever hospital (s) 

OPW5 – 9160/14 – 9565/14 

9160/14 Dundalk extension railway (s) 

9181/14 Greenmount Mound (nat mons), not vested (s) 

9185/14 South Aran Rocket life-saving apparatus house (plans etc) (m)* 

9232/14 Ballysheehan glebe loan, Tipperary (s) 

9263/14 Howth harbour, sign-boards advertising baths (nude bathing) (s) 

9237/14 forms from Trade Board (s) 

9325/14 Fenit Custom House: dampness & roof defects (np) (m) 

9380/14 Development Fund: application of Kinsale Harbour Commissioners (ok) 

(s) 

150

9449/14 Traighera national school, Donegal (1908-14), erection (BOW plan) (m) 

9472/14 Queenstown UDC, loans £15780, water, sewerage etc (s) 

9476/14 Trade Board notes, on nets and lace wage-rates (s) 

9494/14 Cornmarket St RIC barracks, Cork, sanitary condition (sketch plan) (s) 

9565/14 RIC depot, army tennis club – shed encroachment on boundary wall (s) 

OPW5 – 9660/14 – 10822/14 

9660/14 miscellaneous schedule of loans (no use) (vs) 

9569/14 licence to War Dept to lay water pipe from? Phoenix Park to Military 

Cemetery, Grangegorman (m) 

9570/14 Phoenix Park buildings: sewage disposal (plans of buildings) (s) 

9577/14 audit arrangements in OPW, payments under £50 (s) 

9776/14 Loughlinstown dispensary (residence, Cabinteely (plans, specs etc) (s) 

10349/14 Annalong coastguard station, Down (t) 

10759/14 Kilsaran national school residence (usual) (m) 

10779/14 employment exchanges: tenancies of buildings in Ireland (bits) (s) 

10821/14 Clonmel Corporation loan, stonebreaker and rock-drilling apparatus (s) 

10822/14 Dublin Co Council loan, road improvements (routine) (s) 

OPW5 – 10865/14 – 11182/14 

10865/14 Gort RIC barracks (lots plans), conversion of military barracks, 1908-14 

(ml)* 

10899/14 Glenflesk national school, Kerry, improvements (s) 

10901/14 Nicker national school residence, Limerick (BOW1) (s) 

10905/14 Caherconlish national schoolteacher’s residence, Limerick (s) 

10927/14 Rathmullan pier extension (specs, lovely plans) (s) 

11015/14 memorial of clerks to Treasury (s) 

11067/14 Fedoo national school, Monaghan, 1898-1914 (p) (m) 

11072/14 St Columba’s national school, Dublin (t) 

11138/14 Currakyle national school, Clare, improvements (s) 

11182/14 Ballycotton national school, Cork, improvements (s) 

OPW5 – 11209/14 – 12009/14 

11209/14 Westport UDC loan, £2553, sewerage (s) 

11219/14 National Health Insurance Audit Dept, Cork office (ms)*? 

11223/14 Ordnance Survey Office, Phoenix Park, drains (plans) (s) 

11235/14 Cavan UDC, loan £3500, water-works (s) 

11580/14 accommodation for Howth arms landing inquiry (vs) 

11882/14 Bridgetown teacher’s residence, Clare (BOW1 plans) (s) 

11902/14 Amiens St post office shed, unsightly structure complaints of public (s) 

151

11920/14 Carnsore coastguard station, purchase of fee simple (s) 

11938/14 Castletownroche national school, Cork, improvements (s) 

11999/14 BOW messenger joins navy (vs) 

12003/14 Rathdrum RDC loan, £400, water-supply (s) 

12009/14 Rathdowney national school, erection (g) (m) 

OPW5 – 12027/14 – 12151/14 

12027/14 sweepings chimneys at Caster Daly national school (no) (vs) 

12028/14 lisnafunchin national teacher’s residence (BOW1) (m) 

12088/14 Carrig (Birr) national school, Tipperary, erection (ms) 

12094/14 Oak national school, Queen’s County, Mountrath, improvements (ml) 

12151/14 Renard Point boatslip, Kerry, dues cases (g) (s) 

OPW5 – 12161/14 – 12707/14 

12161/14 survey of conditions of official residences at changes of occupancy (ms) 

12164/14 Tollan Daly and Doonbally castles, not vested (vs) 

12167/14 Carlingford disused coastguard station, tenancies (m) 

12608/14 Head of Kinsale coastguard station, repairs (t) 

12615/14 labour exchange civic exhibition, model (!) (s) 

12616/14 Royal Hibernian Military academy, selas gas installation (gymnasium 

plans etc) (m) 

12261/14 North Wall customs and excise office, little sketch (s) 

12707/14 Boley Drainage Board, Galway, 1907-14 (ml) 

OPW5 – 12714/14 – 12955/14 

12714/14 rates of wages etc, Dublin, August 1914 (s) 

12767/14 public buildings: exclusion of Germans and Austrians from contracts (s) 

12775/14 Carlow UDC, loan for widening Castle St, £600 (s) 

12784/14 Rushes national school, Queens County, improvements (g) (m) 

12848/14 Glenarm national school, Mayo, repairs (vs) 

12879/14 Miltown Malbay RIC station, proposed purchase (Ps) (s) 

12882/14 Customs and Excise office, Adelaide Road (vs) 

12892/14 Galway UDC, erection of labourer’s cottages, note (vs) 

12893/14 Galway UDC: as above (vs) 

12895/14 Mount Mellick town commissioners, erection of labourer’s cottages (vs) 

12987/14 Navan UDC, loan of £1050, waterworks improvements (vs) 

12921/14 Ballina UDC, purchase tolls and market (s) 

12922/14 Castlerea UDC, loan of £1600 (s) 

12955/14 Galway harbour, audit of accounts, 1910-14 (ml) 

12966/14 Kingstown Harbour, moving steampacket (s) 

152

OPW5 – 13525/14 – 13673/14 

13525/14 Brosna Drainage Board, 1907-14 (ml) 

13552/14 Castleview national school, Cork, improvements (s) 

13571/14 Ballynacargy dispensary and residence, Mullingar PLU (lovely plans) (ml) 

13597/14 Kilmallock Abbey, 1888-1914 (ml)* 

13636/14 Shannon Navigation: stones taken from Jamestown spoil banks for county 

roads (s) 

13673/14 Dundalk harbour board, loans for artisans dwellings (qg) (s) 

OPW5 – 13680/14 – 13907/14 

13680/14 duties on land values, note (vs) 

13702/14 painting trade unemployment (s) 

13759/14 Donegal County Council loans, £1500, Burtonport pier (s) 

13772/14 Dingle harbour order (vs) 

13830/14 Abbeytown convent national school, Roscommon, erection etc (l) 

13848/14 Birr post office, protective bars (lovely plans: elevations) (vs) 

13870/14 Rossmire glebe loan, Waterford (plans) (s) 

13887/14 North Wall, Dublin portal inspection office (lots bits) (ms) 

13907/14 Loughitance national school, Kerry, erection (set coloured BOW 

drawings) (s) 

13918/14 appointment boatman Kingstown harbour (s) 

OPW5 – 13937/14 – 14181/14 

13937/14 North Dublin Union, loan application (useful papers) (s) 

13946/14 RIC depot: cooking and washing arrangements (lovely big plan) (ml) 

13947/14 Glendooen national school residence, Letterkenny (p) (s) 

14062/14 Newcastle, Wicklow dispensary and dispensary residence (beautiful plan) 

(ms) 

14155/14 superannuation notes (s) 

14178/14 national schools, defects in sites (2pp) 

14181/14 Upper Morning Star Drainage Board, 1908-14 (m) 

OPW5 – 14213/14 – 14366/14 

14213/14 misc bits (s) 

14251/14 Kilkenny post office, bicycle sheds bedding, misc needs, etc (p) (s) 

14261/14 boiler inspection, Dundrum asylum (s) 

14272/14 Kingstown Harbour, cottages in commissioners yards, tenancies etc (s) 

153

14296/14 labour exchanges general: rooms lent to trades organizations (s) 

14303/14 Dublin GPO extension, correspondence re detailed plans and elevations 

(ml) 

14331/14 Loughans Drainage Board, discontent etc, 1908-14 (m) 

14350/14 Burton Port and Carndonagh railway, rolling stock hired/disputes (s) 

14366/14 Dublin GPO tender file, lots correspondence (ml) 

OPW5 – 14367/14 – 14805/14 

14367/14 specifications for Buncrana harbour (s) 

14390/14 Civic Guard (citizen’s army) – notice forbidden on govt buildings (s) 

14460/14 bill to Irish county councils to build railways, lots BOW comments (s) 

14753/14 Miltownpass residence, Westmeath (np) (s) 

14764/14 Kilkeel harbour, improvements loan to Down County Council (s) 

14765/14 Craig applies to join army during war (vs) 

14774/14 Owenabrockagh Drainage Board, Mayo (m) 

14825/14 Westbourne pier, Queenstown, right of way case (ml) 

14826/14 rent to Tarbert coastguard station: note (vs) 

14845/14 Cleggan harbour, general file on byelaws, maintenance etc (m) 

OPW5 – 14902/14 – 15085/14 

14902/14 army training at night in Phoenix Park (vs) 

14904/14 boiler inspections, Law Courts etc (vs) 

14914/14 Cooga lodge, glebe loan, Easkey ‘useless to proceed’ as war putting stop 

to such loans (s) 

14921/14 Lough Mask & River Robe Drainage Board (ml) 

14954-15063/14 Drainage inspections, various public buildings 

15085/14 Liscannor national school, improvements (ms) 

15930/14 vesting various monuments, rejected (s) 

16208/14 Kilkee coastguard station, water testing (s) 

16536/14 Buncrana dredging and other works in harbour (s) 

OPW5 – 135/15 – 1780/15 

135/15 Kingstown Harbour, new moorings for Irish Lights steamers/lightships in 

harbour (sketch of screw moorings/discussion) (p) (ml) 

457/15 Phoenix Park – labourers, appointments and dismissals, 1908-15 (design 

of badges) (m) 

715/15 Spiddal national school, extension (p) (s) 

875/15 transfer of senior clerk between departments (1p) 

895/15 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, accidents to Board of Works workmen, 

general rules etc (s) 

154

1597/15 lease of premises in Galway harbour (s) 

1762/15 Scarteenakilleen, Schull parish, Cork, stone cahir, vesting rejected (sketch) 

(s)# 

1774/15 letting of houses, Mullaghmore coastguard station (s) 

1775/15 Carrickfergus coastguard station, drainage (ms) 

1778/15 Naas no 1 RDC, loan of £300 (routine) (s) 

1779/15 Dublin corporation loan, reconveyance of mortgage (s) 

1780/15 Dublin corporation loans (s) 

OPW5 – 1800/15 – 2075/15 

1800/15 public buildings, vacuum cleaners (ads) (m) 

1813/15 leases of premises under post office, 1915 (relates to NI) (ms) 

1822/15 Mullingar, Kells, Drogheda railway, parliamentary bill (ml) 

1836/15 coastguard stations, estimates for washhouses, 1903-05 (ms) 

1852/15 Dublin GPO extension, electric lighting of public office (p) (s) 

1855/15 Knockkelly Castle, Tipperary, vesting (photos etc) (s) 

2075/15 Killamery stone cross, Kilkenny, care and inspections (photos) (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 2678/15 – 3118/15 

2678/15 Phoenix Park – labourers in chief secretary’s gardens, 1901-15 (ml) 

3008/15 proposed new piers, Lough Ree, Shannon Navigation (m) 

3040/15 Cork labour exchange, alterations (ms) 

3051/15 duties on land values (forms) (s) 

3057/15 development and road improvement funds, Acts of 1909 & 1910, 

parliamentary bills, good reports etc (m) 

3118/15 Moville coastguard district officer’s residence, drainage (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 3150/15 – 3774/15 

3150/15 Bessboro DMP barracks, provision of hot water (s) 

3186/15 Arthur Irwin’s land loans inspector, service record file (s) 

3197/15 caretaker’s water supply, Linen Hall Barracks (s) 

3247/13 coastguards – Kilkee divisional officer’s house, purchase and repairs (ml) 

Ballinasloe asylum – loan for two villas (s) 

3302/15 Cahirciveen RIC barracks – water supply (s) 

3317/15 Greenans national school, Mayo – improvements (s) 

3457/15 Clonamery church, Kilkenny, works (lovely drawings) (s) 

3699/15 coastguard war watching station, Lambay Island cottage (bits) (s) 

3707/15 ejectment against Tralee labour exchange (ie agt landlord), rent nonpayment 

(s) 

155

3736/15 Shillelagh PLU, loan £150 (s) 

3774/15 Kingstown Harbour – Monkstown hospital, BOW subscription (s) 

3700/15 duties on land values (1p) 

3707/15 Naas no RDC, loan £100, Sallins sewerage works (s) 

OPW5 – 3800/15 – 3816/15 

3800/15 Ardwest pier, Galway, inspections (ms) 

3801/15 Mason Island pier, Galway, inspections (s) 

3802/15 Peelvadhu (Ardmore), pier, Galway, inspections (s) 

3803/15 Crampaun harbour, Carna, Galway, inspections (s) 

3806/15 Garafin harbour, Galway, inspections (s) 

3807/15 Trabane pier, Galway, inspections (s) 

3809/15 Greatman’s Bay pier, Galway, inspections (s) 

3810/15 Glentrasna landing place, Galway, inspections (s) 

3811/15 Drinagh pier, Galway, inspections (s) 

3812/15 Lettercallow breakwater, Galway, inspections (s) 

3813/15 Sheffauna Bhui wharf approaches, Lettermore Island, inspections etc (s) 

3814/15 Slate pier, Galway, inspections and repairs (s) 

3815/15 Tooreen pier, Galway, Greatman’s Bay, inspections and repairs (s) 

OPW5 – 3817/15 – 3954/15 

3817/15 Collaheigue pier, Galway, inspections (s) 

3818/15 Shreffaun pier, Galway, inspections (s) 

3819/15 Crusheen wharf, Galway, inspections (s) 

3874/15 Kilbranish national school residence, Carlow (s) 

3850/15 Frosses national school, Donegal, erection (ms) 

3871/15 Land Registry of Ireland, construction (ml) 

3890/15 Shannon Navigation, letting land on Jamestown Canal to Luke Doyle, nice 

example of family holding for generations (s) 

3936/15 Treasury circular on qualifications required by typists (1p) 

3954/15 government securities held by BOW, forms, mostly blank, only consols 

held by national monuments (m) 

OPW5 – 4003/15 – 4109/15 

4003/15 Drumgoon glebe, Cavan, erection (s) 

4012/15 Kingstown Harbour – damage to East Pier by Irish Lights ship 

‘Fearnaught’ (s) 

4013/15 Longford drainage district, 1912-15 (m) 

4017/15 Barnatitoppy national school, Monaghan (s) 

4045/15 St Francis Abbey, Kilkenny, repairs etc (lots plans) (m) 

156

4061/15 labour exchanges – correspondence with Treasury, expenditure (s) 

4109/15 landed proprietors – improvement sales (?), correspondence (s) 

OPW5 – 4116/15 – 4840/15 

4116/15 Roscrea post office, excellent construction file (plans etc) (ml) 

4464/15 Garter Court property, Castle St (beside Dublin Castle) (s) 

4578/15 plan of Great Hall, Kilmainham Royal Hospital (s) 

4692/15 Kilkenny UDC, loan £1500, road and footpath improvements (s) 

4710/15 Phoenix Park – application for position of deerkeeper (s) 

4729/15 City Quay glebe, Dublin, erection £1500 (usual) (s) 

4732/15 Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses: reports etc 

(s) 

4808/15 credit transfer from Bank of Ireland to National Debt Office (1p) 

4814/15 lease of plot on Jamestown Canal bank (Pat Donahoe) (s) 

4840/15 Corkbeg Wireless Station – extension and survey of coastguard station in 

Queenstown, aerial ropeway proposed (excellent plans) (ms) 

OPW5 - 4152/15 

4152/15 Lough Corrib drainage and navigation papers, 1840s-1900s (vvl) 

OPW5 – 4886/15 – 4937/15 

4886/15 Lough Corrib, Mask, Carra Drainage Board, 1912-15 (m) 

4909/15 Burtonport Railway – large file, complaints etc, BOW interventions, case 

against Lough Swilly Railway Company (ml) 

4915/15 national schools general – issues of contracts, vouchers, competitive 

tenders (ml) 

4937/15 Curragh of Kildare – disposal of Deputy Ranger’s Lodge (m) 

OPW5 – 5025/15 – 6002/15 

5025/15 Viceregal estate – West Lodge, Phoenix Gate, works etc (s) 

5821/15 gratuity to family of Phoenix Park bailiff, Thomas Fox (s) 

5880/15 loan for teacher’s residence, Kilbeacanty, Galway (Gort) (s) 

5893/15 Breaffy RIC barracks, Sligo: purchase of premises (nice sketch) (s) 

5910/15 Donaghadee harbour – harbour mastership, 1852-1915 (ml) 

5956/15 Crossmahon national school, Cork, improvements (s) 

5972/15 Scartaglin RIC hut, Kerry, repairs, specs(s) 

6002/15 Killarney Convent of Mercy national school, Kerry, erection (ml) 

157

OPW5 – 6022/15 – 6684/15 

6022/15 Mrs Neary, caretaker of Linen Hall Barracks (s) 

6064/15 no loan available now for building teacher’s residence, June 1915 (vs) 

6068/15 storage of 30000 army flannel shirts in Dublin Castle (s) 

6070/15 Ballivor national school, Meath, construction (g) (ms) 

6316/15 Dublin South-Eastern Railway, culverts (s) 

6450/15 Mooring agreement for Shannon quays at Athlone (nice plan) 

6498/15 Kingstown Harbour – Carlisle pier – fire protection (s) 

6524/15 Cliffoney national school, Sligo, erection (ml) 

6610/15 surveyor’s leave arrangements in architecture department (simple but 

interesting) (m) 

6684/15 Bangor- Erris national school, Mayo, improvements (new BOW large 

colour plans) (m) 

OPW5 – 6719/15 – 6944/15 

6719/15 proposal to cover stream running through barrack yard in Dingle (s) 

6844/15 Owning convent national school, Kilkenny, 1910-15 (m) 

6894/15 Cregnakeeroge Fort, Bunratty, Clare (plans, sketches) (s) 

6902/15 shirtmaking – minimum time rates – notice (s) 

6943/15 Public Works Loans Bill, 1913, comments and tables (m) 

6944/15 Lough Corrib drainage dispute between trustees and Mr Hallett re access 

to river (s) 

OPW5 – 7040/15 – 8014/15 

7040/15 Clonmacnoise works, repairs, caretakers residence etc (sketches etc), 

1900-15 (ml) 

7045/15 coastguard stations and other buildings, internal and external painting (s) 

7090/15 Trim Model School, sanitary works, 1910-18 (drainage plan) (s) 

7095/15 rent of store, Howth West Pier, good report (s) 

7107/15 attention called to civil servants on need to subscribe to government war 

loans (s) 

7116/15 Drumkeel national school, Leitrim, repairs (s) 

7137/15 Old Brosna River bridge, drainage district (s) 

7286/15 note on duties on land values (1p) 

7436/15 personnel file on office cleaners, wages, problems etc (m) 

7457/15 Shelbourne no 1 national school, Kenmare, Kerry, revesting (s) 

7466/15 applications for contracts from specialist firms looking for attention of 

BOW (s) 

7492/15 clerical assistants, carpenters in charge, overseers: personnel file (s) 

7988/15 College of Science, purchase of houses in Merrion Square (s) 

158

8074/15 lunatic asylum loan – Derry & Mullingar (s) 

OPW5 – 8075/15 – 8288/15 

8075/15 rent of Cahir Customs and Excise Office (s) 

8076/15 Shrule glebe, Mayo, usual (plans, specs) (s) 

8094/15 Ballinacliffy national school, Westmeath, erection, 1914-15 (s) 

8097/15 Taney national schoolteacher’s residence, Dundrum (s) 

8178/15 Dublin Picture Palace, adjoining GPO (ml) 

8186/15 reports on ladders to be used as fire escapes (great ads) (s) 

8238/15 testing drains, Manor St DMP (good plan) (s) 

8242/15 Burtonport Railway, investigation of accounts (ml) 

8288/15 St Paul’s girls national school, Dublin, usual (m) 

OPW5 – 8292/15 – 8392/15 

8292/15 establishment: salary increments – routine forms (m) 

8294/15 inquiry re loan for curate’s residence, Moycullen (s) 

8302/15 Renard Point boatslip, Kerry, alterations and maintenance, generally (s) 

8333/15 Sligo-Belmullet steamer, continuance of working contract with 

government (ml) 

8361/15 Headfort national school, Cavan, erection (m) 

8379/15 gratuity to bricklayer based in Dundrum Asylum (s) 

8392/15 Knockaderry national school, Kerry (s) 

OPW5 – 8404/15 – 9741/15 

8404/15 Canon Island Abbey, Clondolaw, Clare (on Shannon), works etc (m) 

8423/15 Kildollagh glebe, Derry, loan (s) 

8431/15 Shrule Drainage Board, 1911-15 (s) 

8464/15 loan to Cavan Town Commissioners, waterworks (s) 

8467/15 Dunmore East harbour, fall of rock to be repaired (drawing) (s) 

8480/15 late tender (postal delay) for heating of government offices, Merrion St (s) 

8495/15 Moyard national school, Galway, Letterfrack, improvements (s) 

8508/15 Portaferry coastguard station, leases etc (s) 

8509/15 Cleenish glebe, Fermanagh, (Arney), loan (s) 

8512/15 Arklow Harbour, transfer of property from Copper Company to Board of 

Works (nice plan) (s) 

8569/15 furniture supplies, spittoons (s) 

9663/15 National Library and work being done in College of Physicians (s) 

9734/15 national schools – use of tarmacadam in playgrounds (s) 

9741/15 Cunnigar Bridge, Dungarvan, improvement scheme postponed (m) 

159

OPW5 – 10141/15 – 10499/15 

10141/15 Ennis district lunatic asylum, various loans (s) 

10143/15 Ardglass harbour stanchions (drawing) (s) 

10163/15 Edenmore national school, Monaghan, construction and cookery additions 

(ml) 

10230/15 storage of petrol in vice-regal lodge (s) 

10247/15 Drogheda Custom House, water supply (s) 

10313/15 Vice-regal lodge, damage to boats on lake (s) 

10371/15 bye-laws for Curragh of Kildare (good notice) (s) 

10372/15 Arklow coastguard station – letting houses (s) 

10443/15 sanitation problems at Granard RIC station (s) 

10473/15 establishment: retirement of officers on 65 rule (s) 

10475/15 Phoenix Park – dispute and attack by dog at Castleknock gate (s) 

10485/15 provision of Customs & Excise hut at Tubercurry, no premises (s) 

10492/15 loan for burial ground, Portarlington district (vg (s) 

10499/15 Castlegregory national school, Kerry, improvements (ms) 

OPW5 – 10513/15 – 11757/15 

10513/15 supplies of fuel and light (chandlery) etc, gen correspondence (s) 

10561/15 DMP barracks, tenancy of Chatham St (bits) (s) 

10545/15 Drumbeg national school, Raphoe, residence (usual) (s) 

11502/15 new building at University College Dublin (mostly routine financial) (ml) 

11542/15 Islandbridge pumping station (Royal Hospital Kilmainham) (s) 

11649/15 Tallow national school, Waterford (s) 

11691/15 Killury national school residence (s) 

11700/15 note on electrics of land registry (1p) 

11728/15 Naas no 1 RDC, new pumping plant at Kildare waterworks (s) 

11757/15 presentation of Board’s annual report to parliament (1913) (s) 

OPW5 – 11783/15 – 11947/15 

11783/15 postage and refunds of expenditure from post office (s) 

11788/15 note on congestion in harbours (2pp) 

11823/15 school-teacher’s residences at Bunnaneer, Lohan, Glenmore, Caherdaniel 

(s) 

11825/15 Royal Hibernian Military School, compensation for disturbance to garden, 

inspection of boilers (s) 

11860/15 defining extent and boundaries of monuments vested by Landed Estate (s) 

11877/15 Kingstown Harbour: examination of boilers of dredger and harbour 

workshop (routine really) (m) 

11909/15 Cooscronan pier, Kerry, byelaws (ms) 

160

11942/15 Direen national school-teacher’s residence (ms) 

11947/15 Saula national school, Mayo (Achill Sound?), proposed (s) 

OPW5 – 11974/15 

11974/15 Kingstown Harbour: hire of saxifrage to Sligo Harbour Commissioners, 

arbitration and detailed correspondence over accident to boat (vvl) 

OPW5 – 11991/15 – 12074/15 

11991/15 Ballynakill castle, vesting proposal, rejected (plans, photos) (s) 

11994/15 testing boilers (s) 

12005/15 Doonan’s Head hut: coast watching station, Mayo, Scotchport (s) 

12011/15 Croghan Drainage Board, Roscommon (s) 

12013/15 Giles Quay coastguard boatslip, maintenance and use (ml) 

12050/15 Carrowcrin national school, Roscommon, construction etc (m) 

12070/15 College of Science heating problem (s) 

12073/15 Dunmore East new war signal station (lovely plans) (s) 

12074/15 Wicklow coastguard station, testing drains (s) 

OPW5 – 12077/15 – 12379/15 

12077/15 loan to Ennis UDC for working class housing (2p) 

12095/15 police court in Clontarf: room in Town Hall (lovely plans) (m) 

12337/15 Phoenix Park: training of horses, 1914-15 (m) 

12344/15 Sligo customs, letting of bonded store (m) 

12367/15 enlargement of Cork Post Office (3 plans) (s) 

12372/15 estimated expenditure on telephone capital (s) 

12379/15 Corkbeg wireless telegraph station (lots plans) (ml) 

OPW5 – 12410/15 – 13038/15 

121410/15 

12415/15 Suck drainage: Mulry estate, drainage rate arrears (bits) (s) 

12422/15 Downies pier, Donegal, byelaws (s) 

12436/15 Mohill national school, Leitrim (inspection of school built in 1801) (s) 

12439/15 Ardagh national teacher’s residence (usual, g) (m) 

12440/15 trustees respecting various teacher’s residences in Achonry diocese (s) 

12453/15 notes on end of year accounts, y/e 31 Dec 1914 (s) 

12474/15 report on Lists? Custom House (1p) 

12515/15 post offices generally – telephone operators chairs, supply for exchanges 

(m) 

161

12543/15 application for war bonus by BOW staff (rejected) (s) 

12559/15 testing and correspondence re fire extinguishers (s) 

12605/15 Keenagh national school, Longford, construction (s) 

12629/15 loan for Loughrea sewerage scheme, seeking postponement as labourer’s 

not around to finish it off (vg) (s) 

12630/15 Kilpedder sewerage works, additional loan needed (g) (s) 

12633/15 correspondence re Kingstown anemometer (s) 

13009/15 Meelick church and round tower, Mayo, repairs etc, (sketches etc), (s) 

13011/15 Rosserk Abbey, Mayo, repairs etc (plans etc) (s) 

13038/15 Chief Secretary’s House - gate-lodge, vacation and re-occupancy (ms) 

OPW5 – 385/16 – 3508/16 

385/16 Cork, Muskerry, Donoughmore Railways, investigation of accounts, part 3 

(m) 

653/16 Kingstown Harbour: rentals on BOW property (bits) (s) 

813/16 rent of Quit Rent offices, 3 Lower Ormond Quay, 1860s-1915 (nice plans) 

(bits) (s) 

1135/16 new public offices, Upper Merrion St, Dublin, sculptures (s) 

1599/16 specifications for government offices, South Block – electricity supply 

(booklet) (s) 

1600/16 specs ditto (s) 



1821/16 civil pay of civil servants and staff on loan to War Office etc (s) 

2854/16 list of contractors on misc works, contracts, applications (lovely ads) (s) 

3066/16 Vice-regal gardens: agreement for management of gardens, 1910-15 (m) 

3370/16 alleged flooding at places around Phoenix Park (s) 

3508/16 arbitration between Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway and Dublin- 

Kingstown Railway, April 1905 (incl information on Atmospheric 

Railway of 1840s, lots files returned from Treasury – suggests that Board 

files destroyed by April 1905, in fact well before removal of BOW to 

Merrion St not just part of removal process) (lots bits) (m) 

OPW5 – 3992/16 – 4523/16 

3992/16 Railways (Ireland) Act, 1896, correspondence with railway clearing hse, 

routine ltrs (m) 

4123/16 Carlingford national school, Louth, improvements (usual) (m) 

4147/16 Tralee-Dingle light railway, amendment order, 1916 (s) 

4232/16 Inchicore model school, renovation of residence etc (m) 

4523/16 Phoenix Park, letting refreshment kiosk to Richard Dickeson’s & Co Ltd 

(bits) (m) 

162

OPW5 – 4563/16 – 8897/16 

4563/16 Inchicore North Estate – lease to Patrick Murray, holding (ml) 

4629/16 Shannon Navigation: letting at Athlone to P Robert Kelly (m) 

5670/16 Rathumney Castle, Wexford (nat mon), works and repairs (plans etc) (m) 

6006/16 Establishment: 1916 rebellion civil servants suspected of complicity (s) 

6013/16 Cattle pen and sheds in Phoenix Park for OPW (plans) (s) 

6119/16 Thomastown church, works and repairs (mons) (photos etc) (s) 

6181/16 telephones damaged in rebellion – property compensation (s) 

8897/16 Dundalk post office (new) – construction and problems (photos) (ml) 

OPW5 – 9080/16 – 9733/16 

9080/16 cycling in Stephen’s Green – problems and disputes (s) 

9145/16 works, extension, purchase of buildings for Galway University: mostly 

financial aspects (good plan) (ml) 

9166/16 compensation to R Worthington for flooding of premises beside Phoenix 

Park (s) 

9366/16 Shannon Navigation: Athlone eel fishery, erection of eel tank and shed by 

BOW, ejection of Mackey in 1929 (ms) 

9386/16 Abbeytown Abbey, Sligo, vesting proposal (plan, photo) (s) 

9553/16 St Molagas Church, cashel, st’s bed etc, Labbamolaga, Cork (sketches, 

plans), works (ms) 

9733/16 Oughtamanna churches, near Corcomroe Abbey, Burren (sketches) 

inspection, works, (s) 

OPW5 – 176/17 – 1237/17 

176/17 Kingstown Harbour: accident during installation of new crane (s) 

588/17 Kilfenora cathedral, churches and crosses, Corcomroe, Clare (s) 

590/17 Dysert O’Dea, church, round tower, carved cross, Clare, inspections, 

repairs etc (s) 

762/17 special increment increase for assistant clerks in OPW (s) 

913/17 rebuilding of no 3 Earl Place, off North Earl St, belonging to Sir Joseph 

Downs?, property compensation (s) 

1028/17 Ashview, Chapelizod, grazing and allotments (tiny bits) (m) 

1158/17 Drumcliffe Church and round tower, Clare (also Fort), inspections, repairs 

etc (plans) (s) 

1162/17 Longmeadows estate, lease to War Dept of portion of lot 6 (some army 

maneuvers), (good bits) (m) 

1229/17 Royal Harbours; Board of Trade circulars relating to conduct of harbours 

in wartime (s) 

163

1237/17 Dublin Castle: sanction to put steel plates on gates of Castle (lovely plans) 

(s) 

OPW5 – 1252/17 – 1940/17 

1252/17 Phoenix Park – fields at rear of Ordnance Survey Office, cultivation (s) 

1483/17 fireguard and fender ordered for Freeport national school (s) 

1497/17 Phoenix Park – proposal to cultivate land during First World War (ms) 

1503/17 Ferns Augustinian monastery – two churches and cross, repairs, works, 

sketches etc (m) 

1567/17 carting of gravel from beach near Pickle Point pier – to be stopped (s) 

1593/17 amalgamation of Mitchelstown and Fermoy PLUs – effect on loans out to 

BOW (qg) (s) 

1603/17 Burtonport, Carndonagh and Letterkenny Railway – maladministration (s) 

1604/17 surrender of school premises to Commissioners of Education (s) 

1710/17 appointment of secretary to Kilkenny Co Council approved by LGB (vs) 

1720/17 press and trestle for national school (vs) 

1732/17 Tuam RDC loans for well and pump at Belclare (£250) (s) 

1750/17 wooden bridge and drain at Portna, R. Bann, repairs a problem for 

Trustees not BOW (s) 

1790/17 Bridge & Kilcrea Drainage District, Cork (ms) 

1940/17 Cork Custom House – letting to Cork Harbour Commissioners – mostly 

property management, 1900-17, interesting early bits on reconstruction of 

offices (lots plans) (ml) 

OPW5 – 1946/17 – 2833/17 

1946/17 review of condition of national school built in 1837 (s) 

2036/17 Shannon Navigation – land at Roosky, lettings (m) 

2037/17 Pickle Point pier – proposed use for cross-channel steamers (s) 

2286/17 specs for temporary building and partial restoration, permanent building at 

21 Henry St (for Wyse-Power) (s) 

2443/17 Killolihane ruined church, Glenquin, Limerick, inspections (plans) (s) 

2444/17 Clonkeen ruined church, Limerick, inspections etc (plans) (s) 

2445/17 Sleaty – ruins of church and two crosses, Queens County, inspection etc 

(photos etc) (s) 

2446/17 Errill, Co Laois, ruins of church, monastery, cross: inspection, repairs etc 

(sketches) (ms) 

2481/17 St Catherine’s convent national school (usual plans etc) (recalled in 1997) 

(ms) 

2829/17 Annagh Church and sculptured stones, Kerry, inspections, repairs etc 

(plans) (s) 

2833/17 military camp in Phoenix Park set up after Sinn Fein rebellion, various 

matters (m) 

164

OPW5 – 2898/17 – 4145/17 

2898/17 Dunbeg fort, Fahan, Kerry, works and repairs (m) 

3119/17 property compensation case – 7 Henry St (qg) (s) 

3248/97 Phoenix Park – damage to R Worthington’s house, flooding blamed on 

OPW (good plan) (bits) (m) 

3307/17 Church Island ruins, Valencia, Kerry (drawings), inspections (ms) 

3638/17 water supply to Lakeside Hotel, Killaloe (Shannon Navigation) (m) 

4145/17 works and financial responsibilities under Irish University Bill, 1908 

(plan, Cork) (l) 

OPW5 – 4321/17 – 5337/17 

4321/17 rent for Inisbofin coastguard station (s) 

4332/17 Cahirciveen coastguard station, tenancies (m) 

4435/17 Boyne Navigation: liquidation of company, 1913 (bits) (m) 

4660/17 Fore Abbey, Westmeath, works, repairs etc (usual) (m) 

5050/17 TJ Smyth case: property compensation, 14 & 14 ½ Cole Lane (lovely 

drawings) (s) 

4810/17 Henry Bryan rebuilding, 97 & 97a Harcourt St (lovely plans, specs) (s) 

5155/17 Shannon Navigation – lettings in Athlone (m) 

5334/17 Kells round tower, Meath, inspection and repairs (ms) 

5336/17 Dulane church and crosses, Meath, inspections (s) 

5337/17 Bective Abbey, Meath, inspections, repairs (sketches, photos) (m) 

OPW5 – 5338/17 – 5863/17 

5338/17 Wardstown earthworks, Meath, inspections etc (s) 

5387/17 St Dairbhile’s church, Mayo, inspections, etc (sketches) (ms) 

5391/17 Murrisk Abbey, Mayo – inspections and maintenance (s) 

5392/17 Aghagower round tower and church, inspections (s) 

5431/17 Ballymartin national school, Limerick, revesting (s) 

5465/17 Newtown Trim cathedral ruins, Meath – inspections etc (photos) (s) 

5497/17 Ballymodan national teacher’s residence (plans etc) (s) 

5574/17 Public Works Loans circulars, 1917 (s) 

5576/17 castings and rubbings from Monasterboice (m) 

OPW5 – 5943/17 – 7153/17 

5943/17 Ballina (Kilmoremoy), dolmen, Mayo, inspections etc (s) 

5994/17 Tory Island round tower and crosses etc, Donegal, works, repairs etc (ms) 

165

6170/17 Heapstown cairn, Sligo, inspections etc (s) 

6274/17 Donore Castle, Meath, inspections (photos) (s) 

6519/17 Howth harbour – lease of quarry – problems arising (ml) 

6968/17 bill of quantities – for 18 Prince’s St, Dublin – Mrs J Lalouette (s) 

7105/17 storm damage in 1915 event – Kingstown harbour works (lots plans) (ml) 

7153/17 Dublin GPO – capital cost of building destroyed (and elevations of GPO) 

(s) 

OPW5 - 7321/17 – 9376/17 

7321/17 Tramore protection works – analysis and proposals (ml) 

7741/17 Dun Laoighaire harbour – lease to Royal Marine Hotel (2 plots of land, 

plans) (bits?) (m) 

8559/17 memos re imports and exports to Irish harbour constables, from Dept 

Agriculture (bits?) (m) 

8562/17 property compensation report on 16 Sackville Place (good plans) (s) 

8659/17 Carristown church, Meath, inspections (plans etc) (s) 

8810/17 property compensation claims – 3 Eden Quay (plans, specs etc) (s) 

9291/17 Eochy’s cairn, Kilmaine, Mayo, inspections (photos) (s) 

9376/17 repairs to Record Tower, Dublin Castle (s) 

OPW5 – 9460/17 – 10644/17 

9460/17 list of contractors used by Board of Works, useful (s) 

9545/17 sale of plot of ground in Athlone to Midland Great Western Railway (ms) 

9884/17 Stephen’s Green: erection of tramway pole on BOW property, licensed (s) 

9971/17 Royal Harbours: memo from Dept of Agriculture re imports and exports 

(vs) 

12532/17 Baldwinstown national teacher’s residence: loan (new BOW plans) (s) 

10461/17 Property Compensation: Bernard J Clarke, 35 Henry St (lovely plans) (s) 

10549/17 Property Compensation: Mr Richardson, 46 Henry St (vs) 

10664/17 Stephen’s Green: sale of pillars and iron rails (ms) 

OPW5 – 3/18 – 1530/18 

3/18 Phoenix Park: planting and improvements near Dublin and Islandbridge 

(plans) (ml) 

11/18 building shelter for police protection near Drogheda, cancelled (s) 

46/18 specification and bill of quantities (superseded) to be used rebuilding 10 

Eden Quay, JJ McGreevy (s) 

511/17 Property Compensation: A Stevenson, 48 Henry St (plans etc) (s) 

606/17 rebuilding specification for 10 & 11 Lwr Sackville St, Dublin, for Munster 

& Leinster Bank Ltd (s) 

166

628/17 Property Claim: Mrs L Clarke, 41 & 41a Henry St (s) 

632/17 St Mary’s Church, Newcastle, Wicklow, works and repairs etc (plans) 

(ms) 

714/17 expenditure for Forage Dept, RHK (s) 

734/17 Property Compensation: E Marks & Co Ltd, 37 Henry St (8 lovely 

drawings) (s) 

1217/17 Property Claim: 11 Eden Quay, Wm Kay and others (plans) (s) 

1530/17 Inchicore North Estate, letting to Mr Goodeve of garden at Inchicore 

House (s) 

OPW5 – 1714/18 – 2553/18 

1714/18 vice-regal gardens – management (m) 

1876/18 Inchicore North Estate, letting of lot 45 (ms) 

1918/18 Phoenix Park: general improvements, repairs, plantations (O.S. plans) 

(ms) 

1951/18 cushion covers for traction engine (vs) 

1952/18 seeds etc ordered for vice-regal gardens (s) 

2162/18 Chief Secretary’s Lodge proposed as soldier’s convalescent home 

(wonderful plans) (s) 

2252/18 Phoenix Park – proposed fountains at Cabra Gate and Magazine Fort, 

cycle wickets, water mains (bits) (m) 

2313/18 Property Claim: John and Robert Wilson, 38 Henry St (plans) (s) 

2314/18 Property Claim: 28 North Earl St, James Kelly (plan) (s) 

2509/18 permit for entering Co Clare (brilliant poster) (s) 

2553/18 case of labourer’s gratuity problem – circular etc (s) 

OPW5 – 2709/18 – 4588/18 

2709/18 Inchicore North Estate, letting to EA Neale (m) 

2778/18 Inchicore North Estate, letting of Inchicore House to John Owen (m) 

2827/18 Killowen Abbey, Clare, works and repairs (usual) (m) 

3035/18 ruins of Reenaveeny Castle on Whiddy Island, vesting (vs) 

3134/18 Property Compensation: specs and plans for 3 Lwr Abbey St (s) 

3181/18 Drummer national school, Leitrim, improvements (usual) (m) 

3189/18 appointment of Joseph Brennan clerk in OPW and CG Herbert (s) 

3194/18 clearance of Hoey’s Court beside Dublin Castle (interesting) (m) 

3802/18 Property Compensation: 63 Middle Abbey St, John Booth (usual) (plans) 

(s) 

4327/18 St Green – bicycles in park (vs) 

4496/18 architecture department and personnel file for JH Williams (vg) (m) 

4563/18 St Green – proposed memorial to Leinster Regiment (2 drawings) (s) 

4588/18 St Green – prevention of card playing (vs) 

167

OPW5 – 4628/18 – 5983/18 

4628/18 Phoenix Park – management of polo ground (plans) etc (ml) 

? specs etc for rebuilding west end of North Princes St, Messrs Curtis (s) 

5102/18 proposed widening Blackhorse Lane, alienation of part of land of Phoenix 

Park (ml) 

5304/18 Dunbrody Abbey, Wexford, work and repairs (ml) 

5481/18 Longford UDC – waterworks loan, £4400 (s) 

5821/18 furniture requirements of Irish Recruiting Council (s) 

5973/18 circulars etc on recruitment of temporary staff in civil service and OPW 

(s) 

5983/18 Passage East pier and harbour, Waterford, improvts under Sea Fisheries 

Act (plans) (ml) 

OPW5 – 6011/18 – 6281/18 

6011/18 RIC barracks: Mount Collins RIC hut, caretaking once vacated, Mulgrave 

barracks repairs (s) 

6106/18 moorings for paddle minesweepers in Kingstown Harbour (s) 

6112/18 Property Claim: 15 Lwr Sackville St, Samuel McComas (usual) (ms) 

6136/18 Howth Harbour, maintenance of wall along harbour road (bits) (m) 

6140/18 Waterford National Cartridge Factory Canteen fitting out (m) 

6154/18 erection of semaphore equipment Kingstown Harbour (sketch) (vs) 

6223/18 Tralee declared a special military area (vs) 

6271/18 furniture requirements of Irish Recruiting Council (vs) 

6281/18 Dunmore East harbour – role and office of harbour master and 

superintendent (bits) (ml) 

OPW5 – 6385/18 – 9944/18 

6385/18 Property Claim: 66a Moore St, Ellen Dillon (plans etc) (s) 

6472/18 Clare Abbey (mons), works, inspections, etc (plans) (ml) 

7405/18 Kingstown Harbour: water supply to ships (ms) 

7780/18 Inchbofin Abbey, Westmeath, works, repairs (usual plans etc (m) 

9283/18 erection of new school house, Knockbeha, Clare (plans) (m) 

9372/18 criticisms of lamp placed on Kingstown pier to guide ships (vs) 

9493/18 hire of threshing machine (vs) 

9529/18 dredging by Sisyphus in Kingstown Harbour (s) 

9531/18 permit to keep explosives in Kingstown harbour yard (vs) 

9630/18 water supply to Kingstown Harbour Yard (ms) 

9734/18 Phoenix Park – reduction in herd of deer (ms) 

9943/18 new notice board on Carlisle pier Kingstown Harbour (s) 

9944/18 Kingstown Harbour – damage to mooring lighter (s) 

168

OPW5 – 10012/18 – 10540/18 

10012/18 review of men of Kingstown Harbour by army for recruitment purposes, 

Nov 1918 (vs) 

10149/18 Phoenix Park – working of pumping station (ml) 

10322/18 Phoenix Park – training racehorses – management of licences etc (m) 

10385/18 house of Master of the Horse in Dublin Castle: renovation, maintenance, 

inventories (ml) 

10520/18 special payment for employment of man on spot at Kingstown Harbour 

(vs) 

10532/18 Southern Railway and order for materials in peace time (vs) 

10541/18 Strade Abbey, Mayo, works and repairs (ml) 

10546/18 Vice-regal lodge – appt of clerical assistant to overseer (s) 

OPW5 – 10599/18 – 11627/18 

10599/18 guiding lights on Carlisle pier (s) 

10611/18 exhibition of OPW timber from Phoenix Park by R Anderson (vs) 

10663/18 Property Claim: 51 Henry St, passed on to Chief Sec office (s) 

10665/18 Property Claim: 69 Middle Abbey St, Mrs EM Greene & Jane Young (s) 

10677/18 payment for dredging of Kingstown Harbour by vessels of Dublin Port & 

Docks Brd (s) 

10739/18 award of gratuity to dependents of pat Floody, handyman of Phoenix Park 

(s) 

10750/18 Kingstown Harbour – decision made about contractors to supply everyday 

items (s) 

10769/18 Property Claim: 9-10 Henry Place, John Donohoe (s) 

10778/18 Nassau St offices of taxes, now congested, new furniture needed (vs) 

10787/18 Ballinasloe UDC, loan £1913, improvement to pumping plant of 

waterworks (s) 

10846/18 Property Claim: 78 Middle Abbey St, John Egan (usual) (s) 

10891/18 vesting proposal for stone cross at Lunderstown, Duleek, Meath (plans) 

rejected (s) 

10904/18 Property Claim: 45/47 Henry St, H Williams & Company (s) 

11000/18 retirement of Thomas Baron, constable of Phoenix Park (s) 

11091/18 Property Claim: 50 Henry St, Arnott & Co (plans) (s) 

11092/18 Property Claim: Hickey & Co, 23-24 North Earl St (usual) (s) 

11110/18 appointment of Robert Duthie as propagator in Phoenix Park, new plant 

house at Islandbridge (s) 

11484/18 Property Claim: 27 North Earl St, Richard Delaney (plans etc) (s) 

11627/18 vesting of monument to Bartholomew Teeling at Carricknagat (vs) 

169

OPW5 – 144/19 – 1327/19 

144/19 Property Claim: Hopkins & Hopkins, 2 Lwr Sackville St (s) 

204/19 Comments on Bill respecting harbour dues (s) 

278/19 Property Claim: F Sharpley, 16 Lwr Sackville St (qg) (plans) (s) 

280/19 Property Claim: 2 Lwr Abbey St, SH McComas (usual, plans) (s) 

594/19 Property Claim: 46 Lwr Sackville St, Elvery & Co (usual, lovely plans) (s) 

595/19 Property Claim: 76 Middle Abbey St, Hibernian Bank (s) 

890/19 Kingstown Harbour – complaints re Dublin & South-Eastern Railway 

conducting traffic on Trader’s Wharf (m) 

1074/19 notes of Water Power Resources of Ireland sub-committee, OPW 

attendance (s) 

1111/19 Kingstown Harbour: land transfer and removal of wooden barrier on West 

Pier (s) 

1158/19 Achill Head coastguard station, Keem Valley road maintenance (bits) (ms) 

1314/19 Kingstown Harbour: staff uniforms and personnel files (m) 

1327/19 rooms for Ministry of Labour, 33 Molesworth St, lease management (s) 

OPW5 – 1797/19 – 3994/19 

1797/19 OPW Registry: weeding out papers from 1851 to 1888-1889-1890 (m) 

2086/19 Property Claim: 59 Moore St, Francis Fee (s) 

2249/19 Kingstown Harbour: East Pier battery, Irish Lights property maintenance 

(bits (ml) 

2290/19 Property Claim: 16 Henry St, James O’Dwyer (usual) (s) 

3038/19 Ardfert Cathedral, Kerry (nat mons), works and repairs (m) 

3146/19 Property Claim: 16 & 17 Lwr Sackville St, Hoyte & Son (s) 

3187/19 recruitment meeting at town hall in Portarlington (vs) 

3263/19 buffet hut erected at Carlisle Pier for traveling soldiers and sailors, 

dismantled etc (s) 

3315/19 Kingstown Harbour: building up steps on pier (plan) (s) 

3373/19 Property Claim – Nora Hardiman paid for taking over of Galway town hall 

by army (vs) 

3401/19 Ordnance Survey Office & other public buildings, provision of arms racks 

(s) 

3478/19 question of restoration of coastguard cottages and stations (s) 

3800/19 Trinity House/Church purchase, Lwr Gardiner St (s) 

3866/19 Shannon Navigation – lettings at Cloondara, Longford (ms) 

3994/19 Property Claim: 4 North Earl St, Philip Meagher (np) (s) 

OPW5 – 4209/19 – 5283/19 

4209/19 Property Claim: Misses Carolin, 42 Lwr Sackville St (s) 

4234/19 Property Claim: Pat Long, 3 North Earl St (np) (s) 

170

4482/19 derivation of name ‘Furry Glen’ in Phoenix Park (s) 

4523/19 Phoenix Park – landing ground proposed for RAF aircraft (s) 

4549/19 laying electric cable from Trader’s Wharf to West Pier (s) 

4603/19 berthing of vessels in Royal Harbour: regulations (plans) (m) 

4621/19 repairs to chief officer’s house in Kingstown Harbour (vs) 

4685/19 Dublin-Lucan tramway: problem with passage near Phoenix Park (vs) 

4689/19 painting items required Botanic Gardens, 1919 (1p) 

4752/19 Property Claim: 21 Henry St, Mrs JW Power (s) 

4849/19 OPW list of building contractors, major and minor, in Dublin district (with 

dealings) (s) 

4918/19 return of cross-channel traffic by Kingstown harbour-master called for 

(delay) (s) 

4925/19 Property Claim: 25 North Earl St, Nagle & Co (s) 

5052/19 Property Claim, Lawrence & Son, 7 Upper Sackville St (np) (s) 

5033/19 Property Claim, 5-6 Lwr Sackville St, Lawrence & Son (np) (s) 

5104/19 Rotunda demobilization premises, labour exchange and works generally 

(s) 

5248/19 vouchers for boots, uniforms for Phoenix Park labourers (routine) (bits) (s) 

5267/19 new public lavatory, Carlisle Pier (s) 

5283/19 Property Claim, 5 North Earl St, Sir Joseph Downes (s) 

OPW5 – 5476/19 – 7227/19 

5476/19 cleaning out part of Shannon and streams, for drainage (m) 

5508/19 Property Claim: Margt Foley and others, 28 Lwr Abbey St (s) 

5905/19 Property Claim: Goodsons Ltd, 44 Henry St (s) 

5908/19 boy scouts put out fire in Furry Glen (vs) 

5935/19 Stephen’s Green, return of garden seats provided for soldiers comfort (s) 

5936/19 Phoenix Park – application for post of park constable and gate-keeper (m) 

5938/19 Phoenix Park – employment of ex-service men (s) 

6974/19 proposal to vest Boyne obelisk and Williamite entrenchments: rejected (s) 

5969/19 Red Cross Hospital, Dublin Castle (m) 

7069//19 Property Claim: Lafayette Ltd, 45 Lwr Sackville St (np) (s) 

7134/19 Fiddaun Castle, Galway, works and repairs (ms) 

7178/19 flags organized – anniversary of armistice, ceremonies (s) 

7227/19 Property Claim: Joseph McGreevy, 10 Eden Quay (s) 

OPW5 – 8313/19 – 9963/19 

8313/19 Phoenix Park – hackney cars and hawkers (m) 

8357/19 order of potting loam for Phoenix Park, desertion of infant child (s) 

8870/19 Property Claim: 43 Henry St, R & J Dick Ltd (s) 

9096/19 damage to coastguard stations; procedure for dealing with malicious 

damage to Admiralty property (s) 

171

9119/19 refusal to GAA to make use of Phoenix Park pitches – OPW memo (1p) 

9218/19 vouchers for clothes, boots, for Kingstown Harbour uniforms (bits) (s) 

9286/19 water supply to Westport Custom House (s) 

9338/19 Property Claim: 3 Lwr Abbey St, LH Rosenthal (np) (s) 

9388/19 Master of the Horse’s house, Dublin Castle – installation of electric 

lighting (s) 

9621/19 protection of RIC huts (s) 

9672/19 Aghada (Queenstown) U.S. seaplane station cottages (plans) (s) 

9884/19 Property Claim: 32 Lwr Abbey St, James Hestin? (qg) (np) (s) 

9961/19 repair of shop window used for recruiting purposes in Wexford (and 

vandalized) (s) 

9962/19 carpenter’s allowance, Limerick district, John O’Donoghue (vs) 

9963/19 water for military huts behind vice-regal lodge (s) 

OPW5 7233/19 – 8264/19 

7233/19 Phoenix Park – military bombing ground (m) 

7347/19 RIC hut depot – transfer to Royal Hospital Kilmainham (3 plans of Police 

Depot, Phoenix Park) (s) 

7538/19 external painting of buildings of Dublin Castle (s) 

7634/19 Stephen’s Green: duck chased by dog (s) 

7739/19 Moytura cairn, stone circles, Castles etc, Galway?, works and repairs 

(Leask) (ml) 

7801/19 Stephen’s Green – night watchman, appointment of Joseph Rigney (s) 

7962/19 destruction of Connolly RIC hut, Clare (m) 

8007/19 Property Claim: 16-17 Beresford Place, Armstrong & Co (np) (s) 

8156/19 Howth church and abbey, Dublin, works and repairs (ml) 

8264/19 Stephen’s Green – staff applications for increased wages, holidays, lower 

weekly hours of work (m) 

OPW5 – 9964/19 – 10149/19 

9964/19 Kingstown Harbour: damage to Carlisle pier by SS Ulster (s) 

9965/19 Consignment of sandbags for Kingstown (vs) 

9967/19 Property Claim: RA Walker, 57 Bolton St (s) 

9985/19 repair to Divisional Officer’s House, Kingstown (vs) 

9994/19 Hibernian Insurance Company looking for public service contract (1p) 

9998/19 activity at Kilrock Quarry, Dalkey (m) 

10051/19 21 Adelaide St Kingstown, Admiralty offices, telephones (vs) 

10052/19 Howth Harbour – water supply (vs) 

10058/19 approval of LGB for appt of new Co Council secretary to Mayo, MJ Egan 

(1p) 

10059/19 accident to James Forsyth, diver in Sligo harbour (2p) 

10077/19 loan for repairs to Dromore national teacher’s residence, Cork (ms) 

172

10080/19 RAF lorry damages gatepier at Skibbereen barracks (s) 

10090/19 supply of clock to Ministry of Pensions office (vs) 

10097/19 Coastguard war watching station, Ballaglan Point etc (s) 

10135/19 28 Upper Mount St, dilapidation (s) 

10139/19 Waygood-Otis Ltd, receipt for lift (1p) 

10140/19 Waygood-Otis Ltd, receipt for lift (1p) 

10141/19 OPW asked for furniture to make a ‘model office’ for instructional 

purposes (vs) 

10143/19 Aghada seaplane station (US government), water supply (plan) (s) 

10146/19 Kilmichael coastguard station, repairs etc (s) 

10149/19 Dingle coastguard station, repairs (1p) 

10150/19 Canal Commission committee: Mr Taylor visits Fletcher on the Shannon 

(vs) 

OPW5 – 10153/19 – 10626/19 

10153/19 Leitrim Co Council: laon for steamrolling roads (s) 

10185/19 question of purchase of Monkstown House for coastguard commander in 

chief (closed it?) (plan) (s) 

10188/19 national debt receipt (1p) 

10191/19 Kingstown Harbour – extra men for harbour boats during naval visit (vs) 

10214/19 permission granted for carrying out charity collection in Phoenix Park (vs) 

10219/19 naval officer seeking work with the Board of Works – refused (vs) 

10220/19 Gallarus church, Kerry, inspections (Leask) (s) 

10228/19 furniture for RC chapel in Royal Hibernian Military School (vs) 

10233/19 Wayford Otis: receipt for lift ordered (1p) 

10238/19 order of frames for boilers, Waterford coastguard station (vs) 

10244/19 Kingstown Harbour – transfer of naval HQ from Queenstown (s) 

10269/19 order/supply of cinder sifters or riddlers for public offices (bits) (s) 

10250/19 foundation (tabernacle) for new flagstaff, Balbriggan coastguard station 

(vs) 

10386/19 Presbyterian Church Lwr Abbey St, compensation claim and consideration 

given to using premises for government offices (s) 

10473/19 timber for Phoenix Park – tenders for wheels etc (vs) 

10487/19 Kingstown Harbour – facilities for patrol boats, mine-sweepers and 

Admiralty staff (ml) 

10518/19 Shinrone RIC barracks – new shutters (vs) 

10626/19 21 Adelaide St, Kingstown, Admiralty offices, claim for unpaid rent by 

landlord (m) 

OPW5 – 10831/19 – 11298/19 

10831/19 general information on Wellington testimonial, Phoenix Park (from 

Larcom papers) (s) 

173

10945/19 Stephen’s Green – demonstration plots for vegetables (s) 

11122/19 personnel file: Patrick Griffin, Phoenix Park constable (s) 

11125/19 Private Secretary’s Lodge, Phoenix Park – detailed inventories of furniture 

etc gathered in WW1 (ml) 

11156/19 Kingstown Harbour – lady knocked down by truck on pier (1p) 

11157/19 Kingstown Harbour – closing of naval office (s) 

11200/19 Coastguard stations: reorganization and preparation for reoccupation (m) 

11298/19 Property Claim: 91-93 Middle Abbey St, M Fitzgerald & Co (s) 

OPW5 – 11299/19 – 12239/19 

11299/19 Property Claim: Eason & Son Ltd, 40 Lwr Sackville St & 79-82 Middle 

Abbey St (s) 

11395/19 accommodation for Irish Convention in Trinity College – works (ms) 

11497/19 GPO – collapse of floor during demolition – death of two labourers (s) 

11578/19 Tully coastguard war watching station (s) 

11618/19 power of harbour constable in case of mutiny on ship in harbour (s) 

11648/19 Kingstown Harbour – recall of Capt Holmes to active duty in HM Navy: 

general staff issues (s) 

11747/19 question of using the Phoenix Park to graze dairy cattle (s) 

11845/19 notice of YWCA put up on Carlisle Pier (vs) 

11917/19 working hours for labourers in Phoenix Park (vs) 

12019/19 Kingstown Harbour – boatmen – personnel file general issues (s) 

12164/19 Property Claim: complicated plea in case (s) 

12239/19 Property Compensation Claim: Saxone Shoe Company, 31 Lwr Sackville 

St (s) 

OPW5 – 12274/19 – 12286/19 

12274/19 Mullingar Custom & Excise Office – leasing etc (bit?) (ml) 

12311/19 work on Brigadier-General’s Quarters in Royal Hospital Kilmainham (s) 

12425/19 furniture and repairs for officers quartered in Royal Hospital Kilmainham 

(s) 

12575/19 Phoenix Park – Gaelic football applications by clubs for pitches, nos 

playing etc (ml) 

12664/19 Property Compensation Claim: RA Carolin, 26 North Earl St (np) (s) 

12702/19 repairs etc for Inagh & Quilty RIC huts, Clare (s) 

12771/19 permit to allow J Kelly, Phoenix Pk Constable, to carry revolver while 

minding wages (s) 

OPW5 – 13069/19 – 13893/19 

13069/19 file on park constable, Pat Downes – case of dismissal (s) 

174

13217/19 Dublin GPO – external clock (plans etc) (m) 

13336/19 Blackwater, Bride & Suir Navigation – examination (bit) (m) 

13378/19 proper accommodation for officer’s mess, of 3 rd Battalion, Worcestershire 

Regt, Dublin Castle (s) 

13430/19 Marine Works Ireland: House of Commons debates on the subject 

(newspaper repts) (m) 

13545/19 Property Compensation Claim: 74 Middle Abbey St, Alfred Gaynor (s) 

13679/19 vesting proposal – case of stone obelisk in Ballyhean, Mayo (vs) 

13813/19 RIC barracks – installation of steel shutters (s) 

13893/19 Property Compensation Claim: Mr Newman, 27 Henry St (s) 

OPW5 – 87/20 – 1795/20 

87/20 Dublin GPO – expenditure on temporary premises used while GPO 

uninhabitable (m) 

90/20 Property Compensation Claim: Francis O’Farrell Ltd, 29 Lwr Sackville St 

(np) (s) 

95/20 Property Compensation Claim: David Frame and Henry Courtney, Dublin 

Distillery, 11 Great Brunswick St (s) 

132/20 Phoenix Park – irregular entry at night into the park by the RIC (s) 

143/20 Phoenix Park – four workmen given credentials preventing martial or 

police interference with comings and goings in the park (s) 

571/20 Sentry Box in rose garden in Vice-Regal Lodge (1p) 

574/19 Phoenix Park – watchman’s hut at main gate (lovely sketch) (s) 

678/20 war bonus being sought by bye-traders on the Grand and Royal Canals (s) 

781/20 Stephen’s Green & Phoenix Park – overtime payments and conditions 

(lots bits) (m) 

792/20 Royal Hibernian Military School – permission to open gate for hockey 

match (s) 

1000/20 Ray Church and prostrate cross, Kilmacrenan, Donegal, usual works (s) 

1585/20 Phoenix Park – night watchmen – applications (s) 

1620/20 Kingstown coastguard station, district offices, 6 Charlemont Terrace (bits 

on work) (s) 

1631/20 Property Compensation Claim: Patrick Breen, 17 & 18 Lwr Bridge St (s) 

1655/20 Killiney Church ruins, works and inspections (s) 

1708/20 Phoenix Park – application for night passes by members of public (s) 

1766/20 cost of timber transported to Kingstown Harbour for use as fenders (s) 

1795/20 office of War Pensions Sub-Committee in Youghal, burned out (s) 

OPW5 – 2319/20 – 2924/20 

2319/20 Shannon Navigation – proposed widening of Killaloe Lock (m) 

2597/20 bolts and bars for official residences, Dublin Castle (vs) 

2598/20 St Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle, soldiers’ benefit concert (s) 

175

2685/20 Barrymore estate case – Tipperary – labourer’s cottages not built for 

various reasons, scandal in which Collins intervenes (ml) 

2761/20 Property Compensation Claim: John Donohoe, 2 & 3 Moore Place (s) 

2865/20 Property Compensation Claim: Martin Fitzgerald, 15 Princes St (s) 

2866/20 Prop Compensation Claim: Munster & Leinster Bank Ltd, 30 Lwr 

Sackville St (np) (s) 

2867/20 Property Compensation Claim: Mrs B Murphy, 42 Henry St (s) 

2923/20 Property Compensation Claim: Henry E Taafe, 8 Upper Sackville St (s) 

2924/20 Property Compensation Claim: William Kay, 8 Lwr Sackville St (s) 

OPW5 – 2995/20 – 3648/20 

2995/20 Dunmore Castle, Galway, vesting and inspections (lovely drawings) (s) 

3088/20 Property Compensation Claim: G Mooney & Co Ltd, 1 Lwr Abbey St (np) 

(s) 

3299/20 boots, hats and blouses for labourers in Stephen’s Green (s) 

3422/20 rebuilding of 5 Lwr Abbey St (details, plans) (2pp) 

3494/20 Leinster courtyard and Leinster Lawn, maintenance of space as public 

park (m) 

3557/20 installation of electric light in Petty Sessions Clerks Office, Dublin Castle 

(s) 

3573/20 Inch coastguard station, tenancies (s) 

3604/20 sanitary accommodation for military in Dublin Castle (vs) 

3622/20 Cahirciveen RDC – loan of £350 for waterworks improvements (s) 

3648/20 systematic gauging of rivers and record of fall of waters, for water power 

committee, lots of work on hydro-electric power and hydrology, scheme 

by F Dick (of OPW) (m) 

OPW5 – 3665/20 – 4473/20 

3665/20 Kingstown Harbour: loan of Board plant to other harbours etc, 1901-20 

(lots bits) (ml) 

4017/20 Property Compensation Claim: Lewen & Co, 33 Lwr Sackville St (np) (s) 

4145/20 Property Compensation Claim: W Leckie & Co, 58a & 59 Bolton St, 47 

Yarn Hall St (s) 

4403/20 reconstruction of Inland Revenue offices, Cork after burning (s) 

4156/20 Ashford RIC hut, Limerick, destruction claim (s) 

4458/20 Ballinagree RIC hut, Cork, destruction claim (g) (s) 

4460/20 Ballykelly RIC hut, Clare, burned down, compensation claim (s) 

4481/20 Beaufort & Ardea RIC barracks, malicious injuries claim (s) 

4462/20 Broadford RIC hut, damage and repairs (s) 

4465/20 Cloontumper RIC hut, Mayo, damage and repairs (s) 

4466/20 Headford & Shronedarragh RIC hut, damage and repairs (s) 

4467/20 Mahonburg (Inch), RIC hut, near Ennis, Clare, damage and repairs (s) 

176

4472/20 Rockchapel RIC hut, Cork, damage and repairs (s) 

4473/20 Scaraglin RIC hut, Kerry, damage and repairs (sketch) (s) 

OPW5 – 4474/20 – 4798/20 

3674/20 dog damaging flower beds in Phoenix Park (s) 

4474/20 Strand RIC, quantities costed for restoration (s) 

4482/20 Custom & Excise office, 92 & 93 O’Connell St, Limerick, restoration (s) 

4486/20 Tralee Custom House, Kerry, restoration (s) 

4593/20 RIC barrack, Duagh, burned, compensation etc (plan) (s) 

4599/20 OPW labourer’s participation in mass strike in Dublin (1p) 

4606/20 Galway Custom House, restoration claim (s) 

4618/20 Wicklow RIC barrack, damage during riot (s) 

4636/20 Roebuck Castle temporary use (vs) 

4705/20 Cahir RIC hut, Clare, burned, claim (s) 

4707/20 Strand RIC hut, Limerick, damage and injury claim (s) 

4729/20 Howth Harbour, sewerage scheme (lots plans) (bits?) (vl) 

4765/20 Sligo Custom House – furniture etc damaged Inland Revenue Office 

restoration (s) 

4767/20 Property Claim, TP Purcell, 62 Middle Abbey St, 15 Sackville Place (np) 

(s) 

4768/20 Property Compensation Claim: GC Stapleton, 4 Lwr Abbey St (np) (s) 

4798/20 Kingstown Harb: letting of yachts shed gear shed & nearby archway, 

Trader’s Wharf (s) 

OPW5 – 4853/20 – 5115/20 

4853/20 Whiddy Island seaplane station, some works on water supply, mostly file 

on compensation for loss of agricultural land (good plans of base) (bits) 

(ml) 

4863/20 Shannon Navigation – contracts for supplies, vouchers, receipts etc (bits) 

(ms) 

4880/20 Roscommon bridewell (ie prison), conversion of barracks for RIC station 

(bits) (ml) 

4948/20 damage & claim for destroyed RIC hut, Moyroe, Clare (plan!) (ok) (s) 

5039/20 Shannon Navigation, boat slip at Killaloe, reconstruction, list works 

undertaken on Shannon Nav, 1899-1900 (s) 

5115/20 Ballydoora (Ballyvaughan), RIC hut, Clare, destruction claim (qg) (s) 

OPW5 – 5183/20 – 6946/20 

5183/20 note on rent of plot of land (1p) 

177

6940/20 Dublin reconstruction: new Bank of Ireland, Lwr Sackville St, spec (np) 

(s) 

5559/20 Stephen’s Green, gas and water supplies, 1903-20 (s) 

5647/20 Kingstown national school, Galway, improvements (vs) 

6049/20 Property Compensation Claim: Bewley & Son Ltd, 94-96 Middle Abbey 

St (1p) (s) 

6072/20 Malicious damage to Bohola RIC barrack, Mayo (sketches) (qg) (s) 

6255/20 Lougher national school, Kerry, improvements, cookery installation (bits) 

(s) 

6383/20 theft and trespass on damaged government offices, Cork (s) 

6389/20 malicious damage to Lixnaw RIC barrack, reconstruction claim (s) 

6392/20 protection to RIC huts, Mount Coal & Aghabeg, Kerry (s) 

6415/20 lamp heads receipt for Royal Hospital Kilmainham (vs) 

6488/20 caravan belonging to Lady Aberdeen, part of women’s health movement, 

deserted in Vice-Regal Lodge (s) 

6572/20 repairs to Timoleague and other RIC barracks (s) 

6624/20 destruction of Arklow RIC barrack (vs) 

6678/20 burning of Brandon coastguard station (1p) 

6697/20 army occupying rooms in Dublin Castle (vs) 

6752/20 steel plates for Arney RIC barracks (1p) 

6753/20 plates for Belgawley RIC barracks (vs) 

6758/20 shutters for Oughterard RIC barracks (vs) 

6759/20 shell boxes for RIC barracks (vs) 

6763/20 restoration of Brandon Quay coastguard station (vs) 

6830/20 Property Compensation Claim: 4 Eden Quay, HF Penrose/Carlton Cinema 

(np) (s) 

6831/20 Property Compensation Claim: 6 & 6a Eden Quay, Wells & Holohan, now 

Carlton Company, erecting new Picture House (np) (s) 

6835/20 Kingstown Harbour – timekeeper’s personnel file (ms) 

6836/20 Shannon Navigation – laying pipe on Carrick Quay (s) 

6894/20 supply steel doors to Royal Hospital Kilmainham (s) 

6946/20 Phoenix Park – post of time-keeper (s) 

OPW5 –7017/20 – 7565/20 

7194/20 Property Compensation Claim: Mary Davis, 5 Lwr Abbey St & 145 

Sackville Place (usual) (np) (s) 

7054/20 Phoenix Park: applications for passes to go through park on business 

(shops) (bits) (ms) 

7017/20 malicious damage to Castletownbere customs hut (s) 

7373/20 Mullinahorna national school, painting and repairs (vs) 

7362/20 Kingstown Harbour – lifeboat slipway, repairs etc (vs) 

7424/20 Phoenix Park – plant and stocktaking reports, 1913-20, equipment list 

(ms) 

7553/20 repairs to Adare RIC barracks (qg) (s) 

178

7565/20 Berehaven: joint naval and military signal station, construction etc 

(photos) (ml) 

OPW5 – 7578/20 – 8774/20 

7578/20 Property Compensation Claim: 13 Eden Quay, seamen’s mission (np) (s) 

7579/20 Property Compensation Claim: Edward Moore, 14 Eden Quay, seamen’s 

mission (np) (s) 

7581/20 Property Compensation Claim: 12 Eden Quay, John Dalby now Seamen’s 

Mission (ok) (np) (s) 

7643/20 Property Compensation Claim: 60 Bolton St, Mrs E Falknear (vg) (s) 

7659/20 Property Compensation Claim: 52 Henry St, Hamptom Leedom & Co (np) 

(s) 

8095/20 Shannon Navigation – rainfall records (s) 

8420/20 malicious damage to Enniscorthy RIC station (1p) 

8427/20 vesting proposal, Mayo Abbey, report, rejected (s) 

8464/20 vesting proposal, Coolteigue Cashel, Roscommon, rejected (s) 

8486/20 malicious injury to Dunny Cove coastguard station, Cork (bits) (s) 

8645/20 damage to Kilkenny post office (s) 

8714/20 Royal Hospital Kilmainham: expenditure and rental value (vs) 

8774/20 Dublin Castle labourer’s file (ms) 

OPW5 – 8774/20 – 9929/20 

9100/20 Property Compensation Claim: 32 Lwr Sackville St, F O’Farrell Ltd (np) 

(s) 

8887/20 JT Maloney personnel file – problem of non-attendance etc (ms) 

9515/20 damage to war signal station, Bere Island (3 lovely plans) (s) 

9625/20 Stephen’s Green: Royal Fusilier’s Archway, design and construction 

(plans) (ms) 

9667/20 polling complaints, ballot boxes, general election of 1918 (ms) 

9727/20 vesting proposal – Moone Castle, Kildare (vs) 

9743/20 Bunowen coastguard station, Galway, compensation file (s) 

9929/20 malicious injury to Dingle coastguard station (vs) 

OPW5 – 10158/20 – 11798/20 

10158/20 steel plates for RIC stations, often stolen (vs) 

10208/20 Trade Board’s Act (1909): routine notices (m) 

10286/20 destruction of Custom House, Limerick, restoration spec (s) 

10385/20 raid on Rosslare coastguard station (vs) 

10458/20 garage for Crossley Tender for Tullamore RIC barrack (vs) 

10552/20 repairs at Dingle RIC barracks (vs) 

179

10512/20 barbed wire fence around the Head of Kinsale coastguard station (vs) 

10566/20 Kingstown Harbour – improvements to superintendent’s house (plan) (vs) 

10567/20 Kingstown Harbour – order for harbour boat (vs) 

10989/20 Ashbourne RIC barracks, Meath, destruction file (s) 

11012/20 compensation to Dublin Corporation for loss of strips of land at 3-4 

Usher’s Quay (s) 

11153/20 destruction of Bantry Custom Hut (plan!) (s) 

11160/20 Lock-keeper at Annabeg (Plassy), Clare, Shannon Navigation, personnel 

file (ms) 

11207/20 Property Compensation Claim: JB Marsden, 60 & 61 Moore St (6 plans – 

pinned) (s) 

11243/20 Housing (additional powers) Act, 1919 (lots comments) (s) 

11798/20 Property Compensation Claim: Sir Joseph Downes, 6-7 North Earl St (s) 

OPW5 – 15356/2- - 15814/20 

11536/20 Phoenix Park gardens, 1911-20, maintenance (m) 

15400/20 Kingstown harbour: water supply to buildings (plans) (ms) 

15716/20 Listowel castle, Kerry, inspections, works, repairs (ml) 

15814/20 Jerpoint Abbey, Kilkenny, inspections, works etc (ml) 

OPW5 – 15881/20 – 16236/20 

15861/20 security at Kingstown Harbour during works (vs) 

15975/20 Shannon Navigation, lease of store at Athlone quay to Grand Canal 

Company (plan of store which was built by BOW) (m) 

15984/20 Property claim, 4 Usher’s Quay, SG Slator and RG Kirkham (np) (s) 

16015/20 building a motor garage in the Vice-Regal lodge (specs, plans) (s) 

16193/20 works done for the RIC or Irish government, sanctions etc (files lost?) (s) 

16194/20 genl correspondence on rebuilding grants Property Compensation & 

Clery’s case (g) (s) 

16236/20 Dublin GPO, extension and site purchase, La Scala Theatre etc (lots plans) 

(m) 

OPW5 – 16269/20 – 17178/20 

16414/20 dismissal of James Reid from Phoenix Park gardens, for rudeness to 

supervisor (s) 

16269/20 Metropolitan school of art, works extension (lots plans) (ml) 

16352/20 Knockalla coastguard station, Donegal, disposal (ml) 

16415/20 Pumping station, Phoenix Park, provision of telephone (s) 

16464/20 Custom House, Dublin, question of the purchase of the fee simple (m) 

16532/20 Kingstown Harbour: old boat and coastguard station (vs) 

180

17026/20 Dublin Castle residences, general arrangements (m) 

17037/20 Phoenix Park, grazing of cattle (bits) (ms) 

17059/20 Woolworth toys for Phoenix Park national school (vs) 

17073/20 Mullaghmore coastguard station, Sligo, destruction file (s) 

17115/20 decision not to rebuild destroyed RIC barrack (vs) 

17159/20 destruction file respecting employment exchange in Wicklow town (s) 

17178/20 Shannon Navigation: prosecution by Board of Works for dumping of 

rubbish in canal (vs) 

OPW5 – 12680/20 – 13929/20 

12680/20 malicious injury to government buildings, April 1920: general 

correspondence (ml) 

12701/20 Property claim, 5 Lwr Sackville St, Great Western Railway Company 

(England) (np) (s) 

12911/20 Claregalway Abbey, 1892-1920, works, inspections, repairs etc (ml) 

13085/20 Property claim, 6-8 Coles Lane (good plans (qg case) (s) 

13613/20 Ministry of Ways and Communications Bill, 1919: administration of 

railways and harbours (ml) 

13649/20 Kingstown Harbour: reconstruction works, expenses listed etc (vs) 

13813/20 Iniskea RIC hut, Mayo, destruction file (ok) (s) 

13910/20 Laraghmore RIC hut, Galway, destruction file (qg) (s) 

13929/20 Property claim, 60 Middle Abbey St, Wm B Stanley (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 14124/20 – 14979/20 

14124/20 Dromiskin round tower etc, Louth, works and repairs etc (m) 

14182/20 Phoenix Park, dangerous tree (vs) 

14257/20 Killybegs RIC barrack, crown purchase (qg) (s) 

14575/20 Kingstown Harbour: railway company ticket office, Carlisle pier (p) (m) 

14707/20 new public offices, Merrion St Upper, building contracts, subletting, 

plumbing and plastering, tenders etc (s) 

14804/20 injury to Dungarvan post office (s) 

148111/20 Phoenix Park: permits to enter at night to RIC depot, special arrangements 

(s) 

14934/20 Kingstown Harbour: sale of plots at Dalkey, quarry cottages etc (ml) 

14968/20 Killfree junction etc, shutters destroyed, general (s) 

14969/20 looting a coastguard station (vs) 

14979/20 claims against the US government (Queenstown) (vs) 

OPW5 – 145/21 – 1110/21 

145/21 Phoenix Park: telephone arrangements (vs) 

181

193/21 Royal Hospital Kilmainham – entertainment for pensioners, heating (vs) 

490/21 GPO, Dublin – purchase of Sackville Hall, 16 Upper Sackville St, as 

government premises (temporary location for GPO), works and plans (ml) 

575/21 Phoenix Park: quotation for cast iron posts for works supervised by bailiff 

(vs) 

678/21 RIC barrack Liselton, Loughanes, Kerry (s) 

758/21 Phoenix Park: Brassington’s Riding Academy, arrangements (s) 

820/21 Enniscrone RIC barrack, Sligo, destruction file (s) 

966/21 Shannon Navigation: Curley’s Island, lettings and sales (maps, plans) (ms) 

987/21 various monuments proposed for vesting, Ventry estate, Dingle peninsula 

(usual, sketches) (m) 

1099/21 Dublin Castle: heating of St George’s Hall & St Patrick’s Hall (s) 

1110/21 Stephen’s Green – revision of bye-laws (lots bits) (m) 

OPW5 – 1112/21 – 2387/21 

1112/21 Royal Hospital gardens, care and orders (vs) 

1123/21 Shannon Navigation – tolls (vs) 

1159/21 destruction of RIC shellboxes on Grand Canal, case (s) 

1170/21 Inchicore North Estate and the Vacant Land Cultivation Society (lots bits) 

(ml) 

1497/21 Property Claim: Hopkins and Hopkins, 1 Lwr Sackville St (np) (s) 

1941/21 Ballinaslee – commandeered RIC barrack (vs) 

1999/21 damage to White’s Gate, Phoenix Park (vs) 

2075/21 Dundalk Customs & Excise and Inland Revenue offices, Patrick St, 

destruction file (ms) 

2106/21 Mullagarve RIC barrack, Leitrim, destruction file (s) 

2313/21 criminal injury to cottage at Conna Castle, Cork (s) 

2351/21 night-watchman in Phoenix Park (vs) 

2387/21 Dundalk post office, destruction file (s) 

OPW5 – 2664/21 – 3901/21 

2664/21 vice-regal lodge electricity: private cinema screening (s) 

2704/21 Irish land (soldiers & sailors) Act, 1919, house maliciously burned (s) 

3023/21 College of Science – inspection of Portland stone, works (s) 

3161/21 Stephen’s Green: applications for post of park constable (s) 

3210/21 Royal Hospital Kilmainham – quarters occupied by General Lord Lock – 

furniture etc (s) 

3341/21 accommodation for police adviser in Dublin Castle (vouchers) (s) 

3452/21 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, work of carpenter-in-charge in Richmond 

Tower (ms) 

3079/21 Royal Hospital Kilmainham – disposal of storm-blown timber (bits) (ms) 

3780/21 Buncrana Naval base, naval barracks, negotiation of sale (p) (ms) 

182

3901/21 additional garage accommodation for chief of police in Dublin Castle (vs) 

OPW5 – 4055/21 – 5681/21 

4172/21 Property claim, 6-7 Lwr Sackville St, Ald. JJ Farrell (p) (s) 

4274/21 Property claim, 19 Lwr Sackville St, JP Callaghan, Clery & Co (np) (s) 

4574/21 Property claim, 34 Lwr Sackville St, James Tallon etc (np) (s) 

5681/21 Property claim, 34 Lwr Sackville St, Nobletts Ltd (s) 

4055/21 Dublin Castle, officer’s mess, room arrangement (s) 

4182/21 malicious damage to RIC huts, decrees lodged with Irish government (s) 

4191/21 Stephen’s Green, appointment of propagator (s) 

4194/21 RIC making use of vice-regal lodge and buildings (s) 

4889/21 Leopardstown Park Hospital, malicious injury (2p) 

4907/21 protection of Dublin buildings, security of records (m) 

5149/21 new bath in part of Royal Hospital Kilmainham (vs) 

5625/21 Carrickmacross RIC barrack, destruction file (s) 

5628/21 Rosscarbery RIC barracks, destruction file (s) 

OPW5 – 7491/21 – 7991/21 

7496/21 vesting proposal, stone and giants grave, Hickson estate, Kerry (rejected) 

(s) 

7516/21 Tully coastguard station, malicious damage file (qg) (m) 

7585/21 proposed premises for Parliament, inspection of various places (4 plans) 

(s) 

7627/21 Ballycrovane coastguard station, malicious damage file (s) 

7693/21 steel plates for RIC stations, all over Ireland (lots bits) (ml) 

7716/21 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, various minor building works (m) 

7991/21 GPO secretary’s office, 5 Beresford Place (s) 

OPW5 – 8004/21 – 8970/21 

8004/21 malicous damage, Philipstown RIC barrack, file (s) 

8089/21 curfew order: application for permit for OPW workmen (s) 

8090/21 College of Science, pedestal for granite boulder (vs) 

8219/21 Kiltartan Castle, Galway, inspections and works, mostly routine (bits) (m) 

8256/21 Inchicore North estate, lease plot of land (vs) 

8263/21 Royal Hibernian School, furniture supplies (mattresses etc) (s) 

8348/21 Customs and Excise office, Moville, burned (p) (s) 

8379/21 Property claim, Clery & Co, 21-27 Lwr Sackville St (p) (m) 

8970/21 Dublin Custom House, malicious destruction (m) 

183

OPW5 – 9014/21 – 9371/21 

9014/21 Dublin reconstruction (emergency provision) Act 1916, applics for loans 

generally (s) 

9028/21 Balleydonegan (Cahirmore) signal station, Cork, malicious injuries (2p) 

(bits) (ms) 

9077/21 Uragh national school, Cavan, erection (Swanlinbar area) (s) 

9200/21 Stephens Green & Phoenix Park, visits abroad etc of head gardener & 

bailiffs (m) 

9094/21 alleged malicious damage to Dundrum Asylum toolshed, dismissed (s) 

9154/21 Phoenix Park, private entrances (m) 

9243/21 malicious injury to Longwood RIC barracks, Meath (vs) 

9315/21 Kilmichael coastguard station, malicious damage file (bits) (m) 

9348/21 damage done to state stable yard, Dublin Castle, by military tank (s) 

9371/21 Ballyvaughan coastguard station, malicious damage (s) 

OPW5 – 6069/21 – 6680/21 

6069/21 Phoenix Park, new labourer needed (vs) 

6083/21 Ballaghmeehan national school, Co Leitrim, improvements (s) 

6172/21 Phoenix Park, hurling grounds (ml) 

6246/21 Phoenix Park, public conveyance serving along the park main road, buses 

(m) 

6247/21 Phoenix Park, suggested vacation of land (s) 

6311/21 Kingstown Harbour, dues payable on passenger ships (s) 

6332/21 malicious damage to Ballycroneen, Board of Trade watch hut (vs) 

6333/21 Port Kinnegoe Board of Trade watch hut, destruction file (p) (s) 

6334/21 malicious injury to steel girders in Tralee (belonging to Admiralty) (s) 

6668/21 application to work in rebuilding the Custom House (vs) 

6670/21 gas for gardener’s cottage, master’s ground, Royal Hospital Kilmainham 

(vs) 

6680/21 erection of storm bollards on Carlisle pier (ms) 

OPW5 – 6743/21 – 7487/21 

6743/21 ornamental fountain in Dublin Castle, Upper Yard (vs) 

6797/21 Carlow post office, alterations, maintenance, works 1899-1930s (m) 

6878/21 vice-regal lodge & private secretary’s lodge, passes for the household 

(bits) (m) 

6982/21 Phoenix Park – posting notices on gate piers (IRA) (vs) 

6964/21 steel plates at Ballinalee/Ballinamuck barracks, restoration (s) 

6885/21 Castlelyons national school, Cork, improvements (s) 

7070/21 Clifden coastguard station, compensation file (2p) (s) 

7395/21 Cummer RIC barrack, Galway, destruction file (s) 

184

7405/21 malicious injury to Ballycroneen coastguard station, Cork (s) 

7487/21 Phoenix Park – tillage of vice-regal and chief secretary’s demesnes (m) 

OPW5 – 9377/21 – 9710/21 

9377/21 contracts with clothing firms, procuring uniforms for OPW staff (lots gd 

bits) (ml) 

9446/21 boots for Phoenix Park labourers (vs) 

9449/21 Phoenix Park – hire of threshing mill for demesne tillage (m) 

9441/21 Phoenix Park – gardens in chief secretary’s lodge & under-secy’s lodge 

(lots bits) (ml) 

OPW5 – 10237/21 – 10641/21 

10237/21 malicious damage to RIC hut, Rineen, Co Clare (ok) (s) 

10448/21 Property Compensation claim, 34 Lwr Abbey St, R.K. Johnston (np) (m) 

10553/21 Government of Ireland Act 1920, transfer of government services (lots 

large sheets) (ml) 

10629/21 Shannon Navigation, Saleen Pier, site for store (s) 

10641/21 malicious damage to Port Kinegoe coastguard station, Donegal (bits) (m) 

OPW5 – 10747/21 – 10791/21 

10747/21 Phoenix Park – distribution of venison (lots bits) (ml) 

10755/21 Kingstown Harbour, yacht slip, carriage, hauling gear (p) (m) 

10784/21 Fanad Head coastguard station, Donegal, malicious injury file (bits) (m) 

10791/21 Boherbue RIC barracks, malicious destruction file (ms) 

10797/21 memorial of Royal Society of Antiquarians re national monuments (ms) 

OPW5 – 10907/21 – 10796/21 

10947/21 ancient monuments, Hill of Tara, complexities of vesting question (l) 

10907/21 Lecarrow canal, history of tenure, Shannon Navigation (ml) 

10974/21 work of dredger, ‘Sisyphus’, overhauls etc (p) (lots bits) (ml) 

10976/21 Shannon Navigation, lettings at Errina (s) 

OPW5 – 11026/21 – 11461/21 

11138/21 Ballycroneen coastguard station, Cork, malicious damage file (s) 

11107/21 malicious damage to coastguard stores in County Dublin (s) 

11026/21 Fernaught RIC barracks, Leitrim, destruction file (p) (s) 

185

11232/21 Property compensation claim, Hugh Kavanagh, 1 Usher’s Quay 15 Lwr 

Bridge St (np) (s) 

11234/21 New Inn RIC barracks, Tipperary, destruction file (s) 

11235/21 Dundrum RIC barracks, Tipperary, destruction file (s) 

11262/21 Kingstown Harbour, cutting trees to improve sea views (vs) 

11318/21 Borris RIC barracks, repairs of commandeered premises (s) 

11426/21 Property compensation claim, war signal station, Ballferriter, Kerry, 

destruction file (2 plans) (s) 

11461/21 Phoenix Park – Ashtown Racecourse, crowd management (ml) 

OPW5 – 11629/21 – 12135/21 

11629/21 Stephen’s Green: bedding plants for Dublin Castle ‘pound’ (vs) 

11677/21 BOW annual report, 1920-21 (lots extra bits, lovely photos) (m) 

11719/21 increases in staff payments, wages etc on establishment, Board of Works 

(s) 

11909/21 Phoenix Park, distribution of surplus plants (bits) (m) 

11886/21 improvement of drainage of Dublin Castle (vs) 

12048/21 Bansha RIC barracks, Tipperary, destruction file (s) 

12134/21 Property compensation file, 18 Lwr Sackville St, J Sears Ltd (s) 

12135/21 Property compensation file, 20 Lwr Sackville St, 3 Sackville Place, 

George Mitchell (s) 

OPW5 – 12233/21 – 12821/21 

12233/21 Kingstown Harbour: arrangements made as contract with City of Dublin 

Steampacket Company expires, new contract with another company 

initiated (s) 

12268/21 Kingstown Harbour, supply of uniforms, vouchers (vs) 

12414/21 vice regal lodge, damage to racquet court (s) 

12415/21 damage to state buildings in Phoenix Park, by military occupation etc (s) 

12627/21 Portnoo coastguard station, destruction file (bits) (m) 

12631/21 Property compensation claim, 81 Dame St, 1 Crane Lane, Edmond Quane 

(np) (s) 

12638/21 damage to RIC barracks while defences being erected (vs) 

12685/21 establishment note, Mr Le Fanu (vs) 

12772/21 Clontarf coastguard station, destruction file (p) (s) 

12773/21 Ringsend coastguard station, destruction file (bits) (s) 

12821/21 Property compensation claim, 24 Nassau St, Fred Higginbotham (plans) 

(s) 

OPW5 – 13134/21 – 13989/21 

186

13633/21 furniture ordered for Royal Hospital Kilmainham, inventories etc, 1900-21 

(ml) 

13134/21 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, sale of portion of land (m) 

13640/21 furniture in Private Secretary’s Lodge, Phoenix Park (vs) 

13864/21 damage to Admiralty motor-car, Kingstown (vs) 

13834/21 postal service to Phoenix Park bailiff’s office etc (vs) 

13932/21 Clonakilty RIC barracks, Cork, destruction file (s) 

13925/21 Phoenix Park: closing gates at dusk, turnstiles, permits (m) 

13984/21 revenue stamping machinery burned in Custom House fire (vs) 

13989/21 Dublin Castle: St George’s Hall, RIC occupation (s) 

OPW5 – 14091/21 – 14924/21 

14091/21 Property compensation claim – William Trocke, 100 Middle Abbey St 

(np) (s) 

14100/21 garages for RIC stations (m) 

14120/21 discussion of preservation of national monuments (m) 

14131/21 Kanturk damaged RIC barracks, destruction file (vs) 

14132/21 Kilworth RIC barracks, Cork, proposed surrender to landlord (vs) 

14136/21 Termonfeckin Castle, Louth, repairs, works (ms) 

14275/21 Property compensation claim, James Allen, 73 Middle Abbey St (np) (s) 

14276/21 Property compensation claim, College of Surgeons, president (np) (s) 

14294/21 Cuilmore RIC barracks, Mayo, destruction file (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 14341/21 – 14766/21 

14341/21 Vice Regal Lodge, loan of furniture for use in house of Lord French in 

Roscommon (s) 

14507/21 transfer of certified documents to Property Losses Committee (vs) 

14522/21 Cabinteely RIC barracks, commandeered by British army (s) 

14609/21 Lucan RIC barracks, destruction file (s) 

14641/21 Property compensation file, 16-18 North Prince’s St, Mrs A Corry (ok) (s) 

14655/21 Westport RIC barrack, proposed purchase of Lord Sligo’s townhouse for 

accomm. (m) 

14766/21 Phoenix Park, annual estimates 1914-1927 (ml) 

OPW5 – 14853/21 – 15597/21 

14853/21 repairs needed to Churchtown RIC barrack (vs) 

14854/21 repairs needed to Clonark RIC barrack (vs) 

14868/21 cost of works to facilitate vice-regal attendance at Punchestown Races (m) 

14905/21 dead donkey put in the well of Ringabella coastguard station, Cork (vs) 

14945/21 Rathvine RIC hut, Killucan, Westmeath, destruction file (g) (s) 

187

14961/21 proposed tunnel under the River Liffey, unemployment grants available (s) 

14991/21 heating of St George’s Hall and Throne Room, Dublin Castle (vs) 

15161/21 Property compensation claim, Robert Ross, 4 Lwr Sackville St (s) 

15176/21 arrears on certain loan services, owners and occupiers of land (s) 

15430/21 Property compensation claim, William Trocke, 101 Middle Abbey St (s) 

15481/21 surrendered RIC barracks, Tipperary (list) (vs) 

15497/21 Royal Hospital Kilmainham and Royal Hibernian Military School, rental 

value (bits) (s) 

15551/21 Ballycroneen rocket cart house, destruction file (s) 

15585/21 Stationary Office, accommodation at St John’s Road, Kingsbridge (s) 

15597/21 Custom House statue (vs) 

OPW5 – 35/22 – 804/22 

35/22 Arranmore war signal station, Donegal, burned, destruction file (good 

example of litigation) (qg) (5 plans) (m) 

42/22 Abbeyleix RIC barrack – commandeered premises, works (vs) 

48/22 malicious damage to Admiralty tools and instruments at Tralee (vs) 

86/22 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, furniture supplies for warrant officers etc 

(vs) 

133/22 Seaview wireless telegraph station, Donegal, destruction file (vs) 

264/22 Property compensation claim, Clery & Co, 28 Lwr Sackville St (np) (s) 

433/22 Killeshandra RIC barracks, commandeered house (vs) 

477/22 Kilbeggan house commandeered as RIC barracks (vs) 

488/22 Kingstown Harbour, admission to Carlisle Pier, 1914-15 (population 

movements, workers and soldiers) (m) 

524/22 Passage West commandeered RIC barracks (s) 

537/22 damage by military to boilers in state kitchens, Dublin Castle (vs) 

586/22 Crosshaven coastguard station, inquiry into damaged windows (s) 

804/22 surrender of war/emergency property commandeered and leased by 

Admiralty (general file from 1918-22) (lots bits) (m) 

OPW5 – 1237/22 – 1797/22 

1237/22 Kingstown Harbour: annual £10 subscription to Monkstown Hospital (s) 

1270/22 ADC quarters in Dublin Castle – temporary rooms for G Division DMP 

(s) 

1352/22 Property compensation claim, Lwr Abbey St, trustees of Presbyterian 

Church (s) 

1354/22 Royal Hibernian Military School, sale of stock, equipment etc (vs) 

1367/22 Chapel Royal, stained glass windows to contain name of viceroy (s) 

1381/22 Vice-Regal Lodge, hot water in chef’s cottage (vs) 

338? New pump at Dundrum RIC barrack, Tipperary (vs) 

188

1449/22 Shannon Navigation, dispute over land at Cussane Lock, claim respecting 

right of way (l) 

1517/22 Phoenix Park – gun to protect payment of wages (s) 

1535/22 Bandon, house commandeered to use as RIC barracks (s) 

1599/22 Ship St Barracks, Dublin Castle, Mr Cheesman’s quarters (s) 

1627/22 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Great Hall, drains and gas fittings (3 plans) 

(s) 

1694/22 Phoenix Park – road roller, 1906-22 (ms) 

1785/22 Imperial War Graves Commission, memorial to HMS Laurentac (s) 

1788/22 Phoenix Park – application for pitches for games by various bodies (s) 

1797/22 no group photos in Stephen’s Green allowed (vs) 

OPW5 1862/22 – 2908/22 

1862/22 Dublin GPO, fittings for reconstruction, mostly furniture (6 furniture 

plans) (m) 

2252/22 furnishings in Deputy-Master’s House, Royal Hospital Kilmainham (p) 

(ms) 

2253/22 Royal Hospital Kilmainham – gas mains, problems with camping? (int.) 

(plans) (ms) 

2305/22 Phoenix Park – damage caused by motor cars etc, incl army vehicles, 

1911-22 (lots bits) (ml) 

2908/22 supplies of steel plates to RIC barracks (incl Provision Government) (ms) 

OPW5 – 2919/22 – 3422/22 

3422/22 Ballynahow Castle, Tipperary, works and repairs (m) 

2919/22 Exchange Court barracks, proposals for use by G Division DMP on 

vacation? (m) 

2925/22 Government of Ireland Act, correspondence (ms) 

2943/22 Property compensation claim, 2 North Earl St, Mrs A Sullivan (lovely 

plans) (s) 

2981/22 Phoenix Park – uniform, overcoat and trousers for Constable Lockwood 

(vs) 

3028/22 clothing for Kingstown Harbour assistants (vs) 

3064/22 application to use green near Yacht Club for summer amusements 

(rejected) (s) 

3163/22 Property compensation claim, 2 Clanwilliam Place, A Mathers (np) (g) 

(ms) 

3231/22 Ballinaskelligs ex-RIC barracks, including papers on Civic Guard (s) 

3195/22 Ballingall watch hut, destruction file (s) 

189

OPW5 – 3540/22 – 3960/22 

3540/22 Rath Maeve, Meath, vesting process (photo etc) (s) 

3562/22 Official letter from Provisional Government, inauguration of Irish Free 

State (vs) 

3617/22 RIC protection work, 1916-22, steel plates (refusual by Irish workers to 

give assistance etc ) (ml) 

3805/22 Limerick Custom House, and application for public park in Limerick (bits) 

(m) 

(note dated Sept 1961 mentions destruction of files) 

3960/22 Millstreet boys national school, Cork, improvements (ms) 

OPW5 – 4057/22 – 4325/22 

4057/22 Phoenix Park & Stephen’s Green, chair contracts (bits) (m) 

4118/22 Phoenix Park – training and exercising racehorses (bits) (m) 

4167/22 Lynch’s House (wireless huts etc), New Docks, Galway, requisitioned by 

Admiralty during WW1, now surrendered to landlord (s) 

4232/22 Vice-Regal Lodge, baths for officers (vs) 

4233/22 Phoenix Park – order of uniforms (vs) 

4287/22 Rahan Churches, Kings County, works and repairs (photos) (m) 

4322/22 Emly RIC barrack, repairs etc (vs) 

4325/22 Kildare RIC barracks, commandeered house (s) 

OPW5 – 4335/22 – 5042/22 

4335/22 Newtownhamilton, commandeered house serving as RIC barrack (vs) 

4336/22 Bagenalstown house commandeered for use as RIC barrack (qg) (p) (s) 

4451/22 grants for ex-service men, setting ferrocrete piles in Kingstown Harbour 

(m) 

weed-cutting in Phoenix Park (s) 

4584/22 Ship St Barracks, Dub. Castle, temporary use by RIC as force being 

disbanded (bits) (m) 

4616/22 RIC office, Dublin Castle, sale of office chair (vs) 

4848/22 Phoenix Park – civil service cricket ground (bits?) (m) 

4892/22 Post office employees cutting branches at Cross, Phoenix Park (vs) 

4923/22 Phoenix Park – sick leave certs from employees and medical attendance 

(full list of staff in 1906) (m) 

5042/22 Phoenix Park – Workingmen’s Cricket Club, 1882-1922 (m) 

OPW5 – 5095/22 – 6731/22 

5095/22 Tailteann games, motor bike races (s) 

190

5160/22 football dressing-rooms (vs) 

5174/22 Burtonport coastguard station, malicious injuries file (bits) (m) 

5176/22 houses of Pullendiva coastguard station, destruction file (m) 

5180/22 provision of polling boxes etc for 1922 election, Northern Ireland & Irish 

Free State (m) 

5508/22 list of loans made by the White Cross, lots of residences listed (s) 

6066/22 safe at the Chapel Royal (ms) 

6381/22 Drummadoona national school, Clare, improvements (s) 

6731/22 Ardee RIC barracks – commandeered premises (s) 

OPW5 – 6753/22 – 7146/22 

6753/22 Stephen’s Green, wages row, Peter Allen offended superintendent (s) 

6772/22 Slieverue RIC station, Kilkenny, destruction file, legal problems (s) 

6863/22 Four Courts, title of lands and buildings (s) 

6969/22 Civic Guard etc, repairs to ex-RIC barracks, general correspondence (m) 

6982/22 GPO Marlborough St, salvage (vs) 

6986/22 repaying part of advances made by White Cross (bits) (ms) 

6997/22 Stephen’s Green, band performances, 1907-22 (bits) (m) 

7038/22 Four Courts, application to visit to look for documents in wreckage (vs) 

7067/22 sorting out maintenance of coastguard station in conjunction with the IRA 

(!) (vs) 

7096/22 Phoenix Park – garrison cricket club (bits) (ms) 

7146/22 Four Courts, application to visit in hopes of salvage (vs) 

OPW5 – 7160/22 – 7675/22 

7160/22 Dublin Castle, allocation of State Porter’s Lodge to overseer (s) 

7161/22 Fire escape equipment and procedures, Dublin Castle, fire of December 

1920 (photos of fire engines) (p) (m) 

7170/22 Property compensation claim – Mathew McCabe, 1 & 2 Eden Quay (np) 

(s) 

7182/22 Phoenix Park & Stephen’s Green, seed and bulb orders for both places (m) 

7233/22 Phoenix Park: hours of duty for different workers (ms) 

7235/22 Phoenix Park & Inchicore North Estate, military encampments (s) 

7437/22 Property compensation claim, Samuel Samuels, 6 Henry St (p) (s) 

7497/22 Kingstown Harbour, night watchman (vs) 

7506/22 Kingstown Harbour – pipes laid to supply water to mail steamers (bits) 

(m) 

7558/22 Four Courts, proposed dismantling steel frames? (vs) 

7585/22 fire appliances in Vice Regal Lodge (vs) 

7600/22 Four Courts, salvage (vs) 

7675/22 Four Courts – office of Registrar in Lunacy (vs) 

191

OPW5 – 7723/22 – 8590/22 

7723/22 Sligo Abbey, works and repairs etc (ml) 

7772/22 misc papers (vs) 

8352/22 Vice Regal Lodge tennis courts and garage, construction and claims (ml) 

8411/22 reconstruction loans letters to Tipperary Town Clerk (vs) 

8417/22 Longmeadows estate, letting to M Quinn (lot 6) (ml) 

OPW5 – 9032/22 – 9851/22 

9032/22 clothes for Phoenix Park constables (vs) 

9065/22 Vice Regal Lodge, British militia officers quarters (vs) 

9101/22 Four Courts, salvage (vs) 

9111/22 Dublin Castle, state residence (La Touche Bank etc) (vs) 

9122/22 problem of destruction of title (vs) 

9136/22 Four Courts, PRO search room (vs) 

9152/22 An Dail: furnishing premises of RDS (m) 

9261/22 Provisional government offices, Upper Merrion St (vs) 

9307/22 employment applications for jobs in Board of Works (s) 

9780/22 Phoenix Park – RIC cricket ground (bits) (ml) 

9802/22 Four Courts salvage (s) 

9851/22 Phoenix Park, football playing, 1902-22 (m) 

OPW5 – 10081/22 – 10459/22 

10081/22 Phoenix Park, distribution of deer (bits) (s) 

10158/22 transfer of files to Northern Ireland (ms) 

10244/22 Phoenix Park – cattle grazing in park, 1916-22 (lots bits) (m) 

10288/22 Carrick-on-Shannon Post Office, preliminary negotiations before works 

(c.10 plans) (m) 

10368/22 Vice-Regal Gardens, management (m) 

10392/22 Cooking ranges for Curragh Camp stores (vs) 

10459/22 Ballybunion Castle, Kerry, vesting proposal (postcards and plans) (s) 

OPW5 – 10158/22 – 10999/22 

10518/22 supply of laurels to Phoenix Park and new railings (vs) 

10545/22 Mansion House, Dublin, ground plan (p) (vs) 

10533/22 Phoenix Park – tar spraying on roads, 1912-22 (bits) (ml) 

10578/22 Malahide coastguard station, destruction file (part of) (vs) 

10628/22 cost of restoration of several RIC barracks (lists) (vs) 

10814/22 RIC fire extincteurs, who would pay for them? (bits) (m) 

192

10831/22 Phoenix Park, gate and road leading from Marlborough Barracks (ie O.S.), 

1886-1922 (bits) (m) 

10999/22 Shannon Navigation, cutting a Board of Works boundary drain on 

farmer’s land (vs) 

OPW6 – 11153/22 – 11550/22 

11153/22 Phoenix Park – appointment of gate-keepers and park constables (bits) 

(ml) 

11289/22 Stephen’s Green, purchase and care of water-fowl (bits) (m) 

11421/22 Chief Secretary’s gardens, garden produce, receipts etc (bits) (ms) 

11550/22 Rotunda Hospital, claim of Rotunda Picture-House (qg) (s) 

11393/22 stone paving at Island Bridge gate, Phoenix Park (notice) (vs) 

12950/22 Military barracks, Remount establishment, Island Bridge, transfer to 

Board of Works from United Kingdom (vs) 

OPW5 – 12222/22 – 12963/22 

12222/22 expenditure on Custom House, Dublin, 1920-23 (m) 

12259/22 Laytown coastguard station, Meath, malicious injuries file (qg) (m) 

12343/22 Phoenix Park – manure obtained from stables of Marlborough barracks 

(bits) (s) 

12382/22 Phoenix Park – as used by military between 1917 and 1919 (m) 

12401/22 sale of bits of the ruins of the GPO (ms) 

12546/22 Miltown Malbay ex-RIC barracks, destruction file (s) 

12686/22 Shandon ex-RIC barracks, Cork, destruction file (s) 

12832/22 Carrick-on-Shannon ex-RIC barracks, Leitrim, rent file (s) 

12833/22 Ballylongford ex-RIC barracks, Kerry, destruction file (vs) 

12963/22 Killester servicemen’s housing, building scheme (g) (m) 

OPW5 – 13016/22 – 14180/22 

13016/22 register of petty sessions clerks office, Dublin Castle (vs) 

13412/22 Inchicore North Estate, letting of lots (original lease to Board of Works, 

26 th Feb 1907) (ml) 

13430/22 committee of inquiry into resignations and dismissals from RIC: provision 

of rooms (vs) 

13635/22 Dublin GPO, probable date of reconstruction (vs) 

13734/22 Bunowen coastguard station, Galway, rent file (vs) 

13831/22 Kingstown coastguard station, water supply (s) 

13884/22 Laytown coastguard station, rent file (s) 

13885/22 Omeath coastguard station, rent file (s) 

193

13932/22 approved list of contractors for major and minor works, in Dublin, Cork, 

Waterford, Galway, Limerick (ml) 

13975/22 injury to Tipperary RIC barracks, Barrymore estate (vs) 

14021/22 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, analysis of water supply (vs) 

14180/22 Inchicore North Estate, complaints against plot-holders (vs) 

OPW5 – 30/23 – 1844/23 

5/23 Phoenix cricket club buildings (vs) 

27/23 job application (vs) 

30/23 Kingstown Harbour: damage caused by SS Thelma (vs) 

35/23 job application (vs) 

275/23 Phoenix Park: Phoenix cricket club ground, 1871-1922 (ml) 

273/23 Law Courts, Dublin Castle, furniture supplies (vs) 

299/23 erection of military huts (vs) 

349/23 Dublin GPO, valuation of site (vs) 

403/23 heating in Dublin Castle (vs) 

414/23 general information on Kingstown Harbour (vs) 

464/23 arterial drainage, Galway Mills Drainage Board (m) 

562/23 Chief Secretary’s Office, registry (vs) 

656/23 expenditure on Royal Military School (vs) 

1079/23 Phoenix Park – kiosk, tenancies (bits) (ml) 

1235/23 Kingstown Harbour: lettings to the Irish Lights Commissioners (ml) 

OPW5 – 2138/23 – 2892/23 

2138/23 list of ancient monuments on the Aran Islands, from Congested Districts 

Board (vs) 

2395/23 Government contracts, proposed changes in procedure (ml) 

2552/23 leave papers, Thomas Pitt of harbour launch, Dun Laoighaire (vs) 

2571/23 Minister and Secretaries Act, correspondence distribution of government 

functions (ms) 

2618/23 malicious damage to government properties on or since 28 th June 1922 

(ms) 

2892/23 Dun Laoighaire harbour, wages and working hours, strikes (lots bits) (ml) 

OPW5 – 3038/23 – 3254/23 

3038/23 Stephen’s Green: trees, planting and felling etc (s) 

3061/23 Dublin GPO, rebuilding file (m) 

3071/23 Dublin Castle, occupation of House of Master of Horse (s) 

3089/23 Custom House site, possible uses for the area (considered making it a 

General Post Office) (vs) 

194

3160/23 Kingstown Harbour, naval base offices, 1915-22 (property) (bits) (ml) 

3254/23 Shannon Navigation, letting a store at Carrick to Barrett & Co (ml) 

OPW5 – 3254/23 – 4332/23 

3591/23 Balbriggan coastguard station, destruction file (s) 

3598/23 unions and Board of Works motor haulage (s) 

3623/23 Lisburn employment exchange (vs) 

3705/23 ladies bathroom in Minister’s hostel (vs) 

3747/23 Macroom RIC barracks, destruction file (bits) (vs) 

3758/23 Clifden coastguard detachment station, damage file (s) 

4085/23 external lighting at Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Kingstown Harbour, 

Phoenix Park, correspondence with gas lighting (m) 

4326/23 general correspondence on reconstruction loans (s) 

4332/23 Government of Ireland Act 1920, adaptation of enactment, commentary by 

OPW (ml) 

OPW5 – 4336/23 – 5365/23 

4336/23 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, electric lighting installation (m) 

4484/23 College of Science, hostel for ministers (s) 

4670/23 protection against IRA, Athy post office (vs) 

4740/23 state apartments, house keepers, assistants (ml) 

5043/23 portable confessional for interned prisoners (vs) 

5044/23 Stephen’s Green, erection of railings (vs) 

5114/23 Phoenix Park, gas lamps, alterations in lighting (m) 

5226/23 Kingstown Harbour, custom barriers at Carlisle Pier (vs) 

5262/23 Phoenix Park, Vice Regal and Chief Secretary’s gardens, foremen and 

journeymen gardeners (s) 

5365/23 occupation of Haulbowline by national forces (s) 

OPW5 – 5401/23 – 6500/23 

5401/23 Bunbeg coastguard station, destruction file, letting to Civic Guard (s) 

5424/23 Civic Guard general: decrees for damage to RIC barracks (s) 

5520/23 French Church, Waterford, inspections etc (m) 

5621/23 Kingstown Harbour, cox to harbour launch, appointment (s) 

5667/23 Bandon military barracks, Cork, general report by MJ Burke (p) (vs) 

5669/23 Cahir civic guard station, Tipperary, report (vs) 

5670/23 Clonmel military barracks, architectural report (p) (vs) 

5701/23 Bandon military barracks, rent file (s) 

5805/23 presses for Law Courts, Dublin Castle (vs) 

6225/23 Law Offices, Dublin Castle, provision of counters (specs, plans) (s0 

195

6265/23 Jenkinstown RIC barracks, Kilkenny, proposals (vs) 

6460/23 Portobello barracks church, renovation (s) 

6500/23 Shannon Navigation, Saleen Pier, repairs and wharfage (bits) (ml) 

OPW5 – 6700/23 – 7599/23 

6700/23 St Mary’s Church, Gowran, Kilkenny, vesting proposal etc (ms) 

6790/23 emergency holdings, compensation for commandeering of land (s) 

6839/23 Roche’s Point War Signal Station, Cork, destruction file (s) 

6847/23 Phoenix Park, appointments, constables, deerkeeper (s) 

6949/23 Four Courts, damage to PRO caused by military guard (vs) 

6954/23 St John’s Ambulance competition in Phoenix Park (vs) 

7039/23 Chief Secretary’s Lodge, inventory of private effects (m) 

7319/23 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, insurance of building and furniture by Board 

governors (listed), report on fire of 1893 (ml) 

7503/23 Oranmore RIC barracks, property compensation claim (interesting) (vs) 

7599/23 Phoenix Park, bands playing (bits) (ml) 

OPW5 – 7626/23 – 7694/23 

7630/23 appointment of bailiffs to Phoenix Park, 1894-1922 (m) 

7639/23 cattle branding pen, Phoenix Park (vs) 

7694/23 Phoenix Park, Kingsbridge esplanade, 1850s-1920s (m) 

7626/23 restoration of Millmount Barracks, Drogheda (g) (m) 

7628/23 Leopardstown Park Hospital, transfer to Board of Works, repairs during 

WW1 (ml) 

OPW5 – 7791/23 – 8514/23 

7791/23 new public offices/College of Science, electric light and appointment of 

consulating engineers (lots plans etc) (ml) 

8504/23 Carrick-on-Shannon RIC station, repairs (s) 

8507/23 note on Terenure DMP (vs) 

8512/23 Waterford Post Office (exct plans and photos) (bits) (m) 

8514/23 Fintown Camp (internment), repairs and works (gd plans) (m) 

OPW5 – 8656/23 – 10475/23 

8656/23 establishment: war service of temporary staff (m) 

9055/23 Civic Guard, Castlepollard, note (vs) 

9397/23 Shannon Navigation, letting of boatshed at Albert Lock (s) 

9405/23 recovery of money lent for reconstruction (bits) (m) 

196

9874/23 Rosmuck ex-RIC, Galway, destruction file (vg) (s) 

9892/23 Phoenix Park: injury to R Lawlor, labourer (vs) 

10070/23 general specifications for reconstruction of military barracks (s) 

10184/23 Law Courts, Dublin Castle, supply of furniture (s) 

10475/23 Kingstown Harbour, dredger (vs) 

OPW5 – 11111/23 – 11805/23 

11111/23 Monasterboice round tower, church etc (works etc) (m) 

11493/23 Shannon Navigation, damage produced in disturbances of 1922 (s) 

11570/23 Dublin Castle, heating of state apartments (s) 

11603/23 Inchicore North Estate, application for a site for rowing club etc (ml) 

11628/23 Four Courts, purchase of property (vs) 

11645/23 Phoenix Park, gardens of Chief Secretary’s Lodge and Under-Secretary’s 

Lodge, labourer’s etc (m) 

11805/23 Castle Hackett RIC station, Galway, quick house? (vs) 

OPW5 – 12135/23 – 13266/23 

12135/23 watch hut at customs (exct drawings etc, photos) (bits) (ml) 

12271/23 Hibernian Military School, proposal to transfer pensioners (s) 

12286/23 Stephen’s Green, staff questions etc (general issues) (m) 

12875/23 Four Courts, Dublin, previous to destruction, old luncheon room 

(magnificent plans) (m) 

13222/23 OPW architect, Akerlind – car is commandeered (vs) 

13174/23 Union Quay ex-RIC barracks, Cork, 1860s-1920s (s) 

13266/23 establishment – transfer to and from Ireland of OPW staff (ml) 

OPW5 – 13385/23 – 15628/23 

13385/23 houses in Maryborough commandeered by RIC (vs) 

13412/23 Ennis ex-RIC barracks (bits) (vs) 

13432/23 Dunmore East coastguard station, confiscation of goods (vs) 

13555/23 Mullinahone RIC barrack, Tipperary (and old records) (s) 

13884/23 application for post of bailiff in Phoenix Park (vs) 

13922/23 Phoenix Park – damage to Chief Secretary’s Lodge (m) 

13924/23 Carriglea (Portmagee) coastguard station – destruction file (s) 

14360/23 GPO party wall to Henry St (p) (ml) 

14545/23 Irish Lights steamer berth, Kingstown Harbour (plans) (s) 

14851/23 Cabinteely ex-RIC barracks, rent file (bits) (m) 

15361/23 Phoenix Park – grazing in Vice-Regal demesne etc (lots bits) (m) 

15560/23 Dublin Castle: supply of radiators (vs) 

197

15628/23 Merrion St Government Offices, shelter for Rolls Royce armoured car (p) 

(vs) 

OPW5 – 16270/23 – 17882/23 

16270/23 correspondence with various individuals re reconstruction loans (bits) (m) 

16529/23 General Prisons Board, transfer of offices within Dublin Castle (plan of 

counters etc) (m) 

16722/23 Dublin Castle: Supreme Court, supplies and cleaning (s) 

16809/23 closing off door near Ship’s Gate, Dublin Castle (vs) 

17362/23 Bantry workhouse, restoration of building as barracks for military (s) 

17064/23 Pumping Station, Phoenix Park (nice plan) (s) 

17415/23 Ministry of Finance, Compensation Branch, movement of offices (s) 

17420/23 upholsterer to Board of Works, Dublin Castle, Michael Merrigan (vs) 

17582/23 only demobilized National Army soldiers can be appointed to Phoenix 

Park (vs) 

17817/23 Phoenix Park – Whitefields store park? (vs) 

17882/23 Killeagh airship station, Cork, general questions (property) (s) 

OPW5 – 18426/23 – 19255/23 

18426/23 Phoenix Park – application for additional turnstile at Chapelizod (Doyle 

TD) (s) 

18428/23 National Monuments: appointment of inspectors, 1882-1923 (s) 

18500/23 Irish Land (provision for Sailor’s and Soldier’s) Act 1919, Killester 

Scheme (m) 

18674/23 Kells Abbey, Meath (works and repairs etc) (m) 

19008/23 Four Courts, occupation by irregular forces, row over payment for services 

(s) 

19255/23 Phoenix Park national school, management and works (s) 

OPW5 – 19322/23 – 20375/23 

19322/23 Shannon Navigation, letting to P Lyster & Sons Ltd, Athlone (ms) 

19716/23 College of Science and new Government Buildings, appointments of 

clerks of works, 1904-23 (ml) 

19797/23 trespass in Lwr Castle Yard, Dublin Castle (1p) 

20035/23 bank holidays and general elections, work and pay (s) 

20368/23 Kingstown Harbour – condemnation and sale of old plant (bits) (m) 

20375/23 Law Courts, Dublin Castle, accommodation and works (m) 

198

OPW5 – 20579/23 – 21612/23 

20579/23 new tolls for rowboats on Shannon (and punts) (s) 

20598/23 Mellifont Abbey and Castle, repairs and inspections (s) 

20766/23 Phoenix Park gatekeepers, personnel files, various matters (ms) 

20980/23 Inchicore North Estate, letting of lot 43, CJ Keogh of Prince? St (m) 

21271/23 Oireachtas, supply of hoover (vs) 

21408/23 Kingstown Harbour, facilities for LNWR steamers, dolphins on East Pier 

(m) 

21612/23 Dublin Castle, law library, smoke room etc, furnishings, improvements 

(plans of furniture) (ms) 

OPW5 – 21689/23 – 21861/23 

21689/23 College of Science and government offices, expenditure file, contractors 

(exct) (ml) 

21808/23 Kilkenny military barracks, repairs etc (vs) 

21844/23 Damage to Property (Compensation) Act, 1923, allowances for office 

accomm. (vs) 

21847/23 Curragh Camp supplies, spare parts for Crossley Tenders, orders, vouchers 

(s) 

21861/23 Phoenix Park – military irregularities, 1910-23 (ml) 

OPW5 – 21911/23 – 22718/23 

21911/23 Shannon - Garrowkennedy Harbour, Lough Derg (vs) 

21934/23 College of Science, hostel accommodation for Ministers (s) 

22090/23 Kingstown Harbour – Royal Irish and Royal St George Yacht Clubs, 

premises (reconstruction), expiration of original lease (lots bits) (ml) 

22183/23 places commandeered by British Army then taken over by Irish Ministry 

of Defence (Queenstown and Athlone) (vs) 

22458/23 charges for grazing cattle in Phoenix Park (vs) 

22706/23 military and RIC barracks transferred from UK control to administration 

of Irish Free State (general file) (m) 

22718/23 Property Compensation Branch, appointment of PJ Neary (vs) 

OPW5 – 173/24 – 1746/24 

173/24 Kingstown Harbour – claim in respect of accident to Mr Keith Fraser 

Malcolmson (s) 

338/24 Balbriggan coastguard station, Dublin, destruction file (s) 

363/24 DMP Ball Alley at HQ, Dublin Castle (vs) 

564/24 National Gallery, minor works (vs) 

199

593/24 Phoenix Park water-supply (ms) 

797/24 Killeagh Royal Naval Airship Station, requisitioned land (bits) (qg) (ms) 

923/24 furniture investigators, compensation (s) 

1042/24 employment of Richard Flood, Stephen’s Green (vs) 

1145/24 Damage to Property Branch – appointment of TV Rosingrave BL (vs) 

1517/24 MoymLough? Castle, Sligo – vesting rejected (vs) 

1572/24 destruction of Linen Hall Barracks in 1916, compensation claim (vs) 

1576/24 compensation for damage to Post Office Solicitor’s Office, Dublin (s) 

1577/24 application for job by army man (vs) 

1697/24 repair of constabulary patrol vessels, Haulbowline dockyard (ms) 

1746/24 Superannuation and Pensions Act, 1923, reinstated and victimized civil 

servants (s) 

1761/24 appointment of engineer (suggestion of ‘pull’) (vs) 

OPW5 – 2275/24 – 5308/24 

2275/24 Phoenix Park school, general supplies (s) 

2344/24 condition of portico of old Dublin GPO (vs) 

2620/24 military occupation of Cork houses (vs) 

3482/24 Laundry Gate Lodge, Governor-General’s Residence, letting to Captain 

Thomas Byrne, furniture inventory (lovely plans) (bits) (ms) 

3528/24 Sligo Custom House, modifications for Inland Revenue Office (plans 

Sligo Model School) (ml) 

3708/24 State symbols, design and development (ms) 

4005/24 Government advisory committee on arrested or interned employees (s) 

4184/24 military evacuation in Tirconnaill (vs) 

4852/24 Phoenix Park: restoration of ‘fifteen acres’, British military camp (vs) 

5104/24 Skibbereen RIC barracks, destruction file (s) 

5163/24 Tipperary Town (Meeting St) ex-RIC barracks, rent file (s) 

5308/24 Gransha townland, Donegal, proposed vesting of ancient monuments (s) 

OPW5 – 5336/24 – 5810/24 

5336/24 Sailors and Soldiers Act 1919, Killester scheme (plans) (ml) 

5371/24 Stephen’s Green – overcoat for Constable Dent (vs) 

5626/24 Kingstown Harbour – dues payable for passenger steamers (bits) (m) 

5627/24 Kanturk Castle, Cork, report on question whether should be vested (vg) (s) 

5706/24 Stephen’s Green: new garden labourers (National Army) (vs) 

5810/24 National Monuments Fund and Sea Fisheries Fund: application of Ireland 

(apportionment) Order, 1922, Northern Ireland and Irish Free State (m) 

OPW5 – 6460/24 – 7288/24 

200

6709/24 dancing on main road by young people, Phoenix Park (vs) 

6631/24 Caher in Bohercuill, Galway, vesting rejected (vs) 

6460/24 Phoenix Park, lavatory attendant, William Flanagan (vs) 

6548/24 permission to sketch in Phoenix Park (vs) 

6650/24 Dun Laoighaire and Dunmore East, effects of Harbours Bill, 1924 (OPW 

comments) (m) 

6732/24 scroll to commemorate WW1 Red Cross Hospital, Dublin Castle (vs) 

6844/24 buildings erected with aid of Board of Works loans, alleged damage 

committed by Crown Forces (m) 

6845/24 Board of Works – Dun Laoighaire labourer praised for rescue of man from 

drowning, medal (vs) 

6894/24 Phoenix Park – proposed legislation, 1902-24 (m) 

7148/24 Dundalk military barracks, damage by troops (broken glass) (vs) 

7209/24 Dublin Castle, removal of debris from ‘steps’ (vs) 

7288/24 Royal Hospital Kilmainham – post office stores employees using field for 

football games (interesting plan) (vs) 

OPW5 – 7331/24 – 7691/24 

7331/24 Shannon Navigation – holding leased by James Dixon of Athlone (m) 

7630/24 Phoenix Park – (file viewed by John McCullen 29 th Jan 1993) – missing? 

(?) 

7691/24 Iniscaltra and Holy Island, Leitrim (Shannon River), round tower and 

seven churches, works etc (ml) 

OPW5 – 7765/24 – 8485/24 

7765/24 furniture for Supreme Court, no. 6 House, Dublin Castle (vs) 

7774/24 appointment of master to dredger ‘Sisyphus’ (s) 

7836/24 premises commandeered by Irish National Army (vs) 

7981/24 Ballydonegan coastguard station, Cork, destruction file (qg) (s) 

7975/24 Stephen’s Green, supply of five teak notice-boards (vs) 

8119/24 Phoenix Park – Vice-Regal gardens, employment of William McGarry, 

journeyman (vs) 

8139/24 Oireachtas, accommodation at Leinster House, National Museum etc 

(Senate) (s) 

8162/24 Belderig coastguard station, Mayo, improvements after malicious damage 

(qg) (m) 

8229/24 establishment – Governor-General’s Residence, employment of electrician 

(vs) 

8264/24 Soldier’s Point, Dundalk coastguard station, destruction/compensation file 

(s) 

8485/24 Phoenix Park – venison – killing of bucks (lots bits) (m) 

201

OPW5 – 8574/24 – 9573/24 

8574/24 Sneem Pier, Kerry, inspections and repairs, 1899-1924 (m) 

8580/24 audit of Killester files in OPW office (Soldiers and Sailors Act) (vs) 

9035/24 refusal to allow hire of donkeys, Phoenix Park (vs) 

9125/24 Stephen’s Green – exterior painting by ex-National Army soldiers (vs) 

9455/24 Dublin Castle, memorial to barristers killed in Great War (s) 

9457/24 Howth Harbour, Royal Harbours, site for box office (m) 

9458/24 Kingstown Harbour, annual boat licences (some bits) (m) 

9573/24 Newbridge internment camp and military barracks (Gormanstown RAF 

Camp), supply of beds and bedding etc (plans) (bits) (ml) 

OPW5 – 9681/24 – 10091/24 

9681/24 Moyne Abbey, Mayo, works and inspections, 1882-1924 (m) 

9763/24 Ballyheigue coastguard station, Compensation Commission (m) 

9764/24 Mouth of Boyne coastguard station, damage (s) 

9767/24 Derkmore coastguard station, Sligo, destruction/compensation file (qg) (s) 

9876/24 leave for OPW employee to aid Aonach Tailteann, D. Burke (vs) 

9980/24 accident to D. Birch, painter employed through Dockrells (vs) 

10018/24 Inchicore North Estate, letting of land to Nepture Rowing Club (plan of 

pavilion) (vs) 

16091/24 Phoenix Park, military irregularities, Free State Army (vs) 

OPW5 – 10517/24 – 11962/24 

10517/24 GPO ruins – boys playing about in rubble (vs) 

10587/24 Four Courts, demolition and salvage works, restoration plans etc (photos) 

(ml) 

10871/24 Dun Laoighaire harbour, pleasure steamers (s) 

11096/24 market valuers, appointments under the Compensation Act 1923 (s) 

11468/24 proposal to vest as national monument the grave of General Blake (hanged 

1798) in Tubberpatrick graveyard, Sligo, rejected (vs) 

11488/24 Phoenix Park – external painting of buildings (s) 

11792/24 Cranfield coastguard station (Greencastle, Co Down), destruction file (s) 

11874/24 Phoenix Park – Under-Secretary’s demesne (vs) 

11880/24 list premises occupied by army in Co Kilkenny (vs) 

11962/24 Kingstown Harbour, storage of yachts and use of gear etc (bits) (ml) 

OPW5 – 11979/24 – 13722/24 

202

11979/24 St Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle, expenses attached to dance held Feb 1922 

(bits) (m) 

12666/24 Stephen’s Green, appointment of park constables (s) 

13040/24 Phoenix Park – accident papers (vs) 

13154/24 Chapel Royal, outside railings (vs) 

13183/24 Phoenix Park – aviation display (vs) 

13220/24 Chief Superintendants House, Dublin Castle (vs) 

13467/24 Crumlin DMP barracks, compensation file (qg) (s) 

13667/24 Phoenix Park race meetings (vs) 

13673/24 Royal Canal, Board of Works inspections, 1900-20 (m) 

13722/24 Boyle military barracks, restoration works (lots) (m) 

OPW5 – 13783/24 – 14433/24 

13783/24 Jury’s Hotel, Dublin, occupation by Inland Revenue and LGB 

(compensation etc), 1919-24 (plan of government rooms) (ml) 

13858/24 Acres national school, Donegal, improvements (s) 

14301/24 suggestion for use of Royal Hospital Kilmainham as house of parliament 

(m) 

14433/24 Sybil Point War Signal Station, Kerry, compensation to farmer for 

construction of trenches around the building after 1916 Rising (bits) (m) 

OPW5 – 14992/24 – 16249/24 

14992/24 GPO Dublin – demolition plant (m) 

15159/24 Cashla Bay Martello tower, Galway, rent file (s) 

15513/24 Dun Laoighaire harbour, application by Kingstown sea scouts (s) 

15823/24 Phoenix Park, maintenance, improvt of water supply, pressure for fire 

hoses, waste (ms) 

15838/24 Phoenix Park – military gymkhana on fifteen acres (vs) 

15943/24 photographs of floor of Law Library, Dublin Castle (lino) (s) 

16081/24 Cunnigar Bridge, Dungarvan Harbour, application for old project (ml) 

16173/24 Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Lwr Castle Yard, power machinery 

(vs) 

16249/24 Phoenix Park, water supply, application of MFW Reid (vs) 

OPW5 – 16302/24 – 16883/24 

16302/24 Duleek Priory, Meath, 1895-1922, works etc (m) 

16304/24 timber to be disposed of in Portobello Barracks (vs) 

16430/24 proposed new school, Crawford Avenue, Dublin (plans, specs) (s) 

16883/24 Kingstown Harbour – dredger ‘Saxifrage’, building and requisition file 

(bits) (ml) 

203

OPW5 – 16884/24 – 1814/24 

16884/24 Shannon Navigation, complaints as to working of sluices to prevent 

flooding (vg) (m) 

16897/24 State lodges, quarters occupied by military now vacant (vs) 

17078/24 Land Registry, reconstruction file (m) 

17140/24 Shannon Navigation, rent of eel fisheries, OPW Commissioners v A 

Mackey (non-payment of rent) (bits) (ml) 

17267/24 Dublin Custom House ruins (vs) 

17320/24 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, furniture removed to Dublin Castle stores 

(vs) 

17949/24 DMP office, Dublin Castle, additional room required (p) (s) 

18063/24 Liffey water power schemes (three), OPW commentary (s) 

18154/24 Killursa Church, Galway (photos) etc (s) 

OPW5 – 18225/24 – 19040/24 

18228/24 Phoenix Park national school, end of patronage by Board of Works (bits) 

(ml) 

18380/24 accommodation for troops at Tuam, commandeered premises (vs) 

18385/24 Holy Cross Abbey, 1913-24, works etc (ml) 

18738/24 Registrar of Business Names, office accommodation, 19 Kildare St (s) 

19040/24 Shannon Navigation, telephone communication, Banagher to Meelick (s) 

OPW5 – 19282/24 – 21421/24 

19281/24 list of approved contractors, 1923-24 (ml) 

19885/24 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, master’s gardens, 1914-24 (lots bits) (ml) 

20555/24 Phoenix Park, discovery of dead body (vs) 

20037/24 ‘Fleming’ estate case (lots bits) (m) 

20299/24 premises commandeered by military, Limerick Steamship Company (vs) 

21076/24 Ballymacthomas Castle (demolition) and Government Press Office (vs) 

21421/24 Dublin Reconstruction (Emergency Provisions) Act 1924, commentary of 

OPW (vs) 

OPW5 – 21446/24 – 22377/24 

21446/24 Dun Laoighaire – bathing off West Pier (lots bits) (m) 

21838/24 Ballydonegan Signal Station, Cork, tenure and disposal of site (s) 

22005/24 Shannon Navigation, guide to piles in Saleen Creek (vs) 

22361/24 State Lands Act, 1924, OPW commentary (s) 

204

22365/24 Canal Commission, 1923, excellent file (ml) 

22377/24 Glendalough, works and repairs, usual (ml) 

OPW5 – 13/25 – 2178/25 

13/25 Conna Castle, inspections etc, 1915-24 (m) 

916/25 Kingstown Harbour, hut on Carlisle Pier for storage of rifles (bits) (m) 

947/25 Minister and Secretaries Act 1924, archives and records (vs) 

1203/25 Marshalsea Barracks, Dublin, civilian tenancies (m) 

1267/25 Phoenix Park, water supply, provision of storage tank and pressure 

recorder (s) 

1390/25 transfer of articles from Governor-General’s Residence, (vs) 

1803/25 erection of fence by Four Courts walls (vs) 

2178/25 Stephen’s Green, case of William Tierney, shot dead (s) 

OPW5 – 2428/25 – 5204/25 

2428/25 Kilmore Civic Guard station, Roscommon, leaving house (ok?) (bits) (s) 

2737/25 Boyle Abbey, Roscommon, 1880-1926, works etc (ml) 

3082/25 Fertagh Round Tower, Kilkenny, 1879-1922, works etc (s) 

3484/25 Dublin Castle, permission to Mr Scott, builder, to convey materials (s) 

3605/25 Law Courts, lino for floor of Dublin Castle accommodation (vs) 

3905/25 Maples Hotel, destroyed by fire, 18 th February 1919, expenditure by Board 

of Works (bits) (ms) 

4442/25 Greater Dublin Movement and Report of Committee of Inquiry, town 

planning (s) 

14531/25 annual inspection of ancient monuments by assistant architects (bits) (s) 

5025/25 Four Courts and recovery of Lord Chancellor’s mace (vs) 

5204/25 Elizabeth Fort, Cork, military properties, general restoration (s) 

OPW5 – 5234/25 – 6026/25 

5234/25 Creevelea Monastery, Leitrim, 1881-1925 (ml) 

5424/25 Marlboro Hall, used by Aonach Tailteann, maintenance by Board of 

Works (s) 

5850/25 Kingstown Harbour, Carlisle Pier, customs examination, arrangements 

(lots plans) (m) 

5933/25 Phoenix Park, Glacis Cottage, fireplace (vs) 

6026/25 Dun Laoighaire Harbour, extra boatmen and constables, 1899-1925 (ml) 

OPW5 – 6286/25 – 7934/25 

205

6286/25 Bridgend Customs Hut, cleaning latrine and proposed latrine (s) 

6709/25 Kingstown Harbour, bandstand on East Pier, 1917-25 (bits) (ml) 

6776/25 Phoenix Park, damage to gas lamp (vs) 

6852/25 Phoenix Park – grass slope fronting Conyngham Road, Islandbridge (vs) 

6936/25 Phoenix Park pumping station, examination of water supply (s) 

7174/25 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, military quarters, extravagant consumption 

of gas (vs) 

7212/25 Shannon Power scheme, discussion in newspapers (s) 

7759/25 repair of steps at Law Courts, Dublin Castle (vs) 

7933/25 Phoenix Park, state lodges, supply of gravel for garden walks (vs) 

7934/25 Phoenix Park – external gas lighting, contracts, 1923-25 (m) 

OPW5 – 7992/25 – 9672/25 

7992/25 Dublin GPO, sorting office in Fowler Hall, Parnell St (p) (lots bits) (ml) 

8147/25 theft of football posts in ‘Fifteen Acres’ (vs) 

8218/25 Phoenix Park – wireless demonstrations (vs) 

8408/25 memo on maintenance of Governor-General’s and Private Secretary’s 

lodges (vs) 

8666/25 Dublin Castle, late Chief Secretary’s Office, Mr Markham (p) (s) 

8919/25 Shannon Navigation, long-line fishing damaging eel fisheries under BOW 

care (m) 

8963/25 scrap material remaining in ruins of GPO (vs) 

9368/25 Shannon Navigation, netting of salmon, 1870-1920 (m) 

9442/25 Phoenix Park, wrought iron fencing (s) 

9672/25 telephone to Custom House work-site (vs) 

OPW5 – 9676/25 – 12844/25 

9676/25 Phoenix Park, gardens attached to Governor-General’s Residence (lots 

bits) (ml) 

9918/25 Stephen’s Green, supply of motor lawnmowers (vs) 

10195/25 Smerwick coastguard station, Ballinagall, conversion into coast life saving 

station (s) 

10949/25 Phoenix Park race-horse owners (vs) 

10998/25 Shannon Navigation, Royal Canal, leaks beside culvert at Derrymore (ms) 

11001/25 Stephen’s Green and children’s sand-garden (s) 

11619/25 reception committee organized to greet ‘Saoirse’, Conor O’Brien at Dun 

Laoighaire (vs) 

11694/25 publicity matters and the Board of Works (s) 

11880/25 Law Courts, Dublin Castle, works (lots plans) (ml) 

12182/25 Courts of Justice, room 710, Judge Pigot’s court (s) 

12346/25 Roscrea Castle, Tipperary, 1916-25 (s) 

12613/25 disturbances in Phoenix Park in 1871 (vs) 

206

12844/25 tobacco curing sheds (plans) (vs) 

OPW5 – 13096/25 – 13654/25 

13096/25 Phoenix Park – motor-cycle road races (lots bits) (ml) 

13105/25 establishment: staff retirements under article 10 of Anglo-Irish Treaty (ml) 

13205/25 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, bothy linen (vs) 

13227/25 repairs at Hare Island national school (s) 

13269/25 Garda Siochana – general erection of huts (plans) (s) 

13558/25 rug for Supreme Court (1p) 

13564/25 rentals and scope of duties of Board of Works as landlord (s) 

OPW5 – 13662/25 – 14281/25 

13662/25 military barracks, maintenance and reconstruction works, general 

correspondence (lots good bits (m) 

13950/25 Minister of External Affairs, entertainment of American naval officers at 

Chief Secretary’s Lodge (vs) 

13986/25 journeyman gardeners at Vice-Regal Lodge and Chief Secretary’s 

gardens, employment records (m) 

14012/25 National Library, Lyster Memorial (vs) 

14281/25 disposal of site of 45 Upper O’Connell St, Dublin (plans) (interesting) 

(ml) 

OPW5 – 14459/25 – 15832/25 

14459/25 Fairgreen national school, Cavan, repairs (vs) 

14895/25 Shannon Navigation, Foynes Harbour, loans, works etc (m) 

14991/25 Glenstal Castle, Limerick (plans, photos etc) (vs) 

15086/25 Public offices in Merrion St & Kildare St, relaxation of military 

restrictions (ms) 

15268/25 contracts – official procedures (s) 

15368/25 Phoenix Park – external painting (vs) 

15422/25 Dublin Broadcasting Station, proposed site in Phoenix Park (s) 

15832/25 Inchicore North Estate, letting to Dublin Corporation (allotments?) (ml) 

OPW5 – 15854/25 – 17250/25 

15854/25 Tonregee national school, Mayo (Achill), erection by Board of Works, 

1912-13 (p) (lots bits) (m) 

15920/25 Hibernian Military School, organ in Protestant Church removed (m) 

16157/25 Phoenix Park – deerkeepers gun (s) 

207

16462/25 Portobello Barracks, valuation of furniture in room of General Collins (s) 

17182/25 Dail Courts in Main Guard building, Dublin Castle (ms) 

17198/25 Timoleague boys and girls national school, Cork, improvements, 1909-15 

(m) 

17250/25 Athassel Abbey, Tipperary, 1912-25, usual material (m) 

OPW5 – 17250/25 – 18748/25 

18091/25 Four Courts, copper dome contract (p) (s) 

18402/25 Leinster Lawn, preparation for Oireachtas works (ms) 

18605/25 proposed hydro-electric scheme Shannon (m) 

18679/25 signed undertakings by contractors re Fair Wages clauses, 1920-25 (ml) 

18748/25 Dublin GPO, misc file (m) 

OPW5 – 18771/25 – 19881/25 

18771/25 presses for Supreme Court, Dublin Castle (plans) (s) 

18809/25 Phoenix Park, new regulations for OPW staff, 1926 (s) 

19301/25 Waygood Otis lifts and slippery marble floors, Government Buildings, 

Merrion St (m) 

19392/25 Burrishoole Abbey, Mayo, 1912-25, works etc (m) 

!!??16114/25 houses of National University, Mount St & Fitzwilliam St (ml) 

19787/25 GPO site, rebuilding 24-27 Henry St (s) 

19881/25 Phoenix Park, white lines on roads (bits) (m) 

OPW5 – 20198/25 – 21735/25 

20198/25 Askeaton infants school, 1910-25 (p) (ms) 

20225/25 hauling line, Law Courts, Dublin Castle (vs) 

20286/25 Dublin Sorting Office, Pearse St, works (p) (ml) 

20310/25 Drum Wharf, Shannon Navigation, 1851-1920s (beautiful sketch) (m) 

20948/25 two chemical fire extinguishers in Chapel Royal (vs) 

20949/25 Government Buildings, North Block, sentry beat (plan) (vs) 

21565/25 Four Courts, Dublin, reconstruction (lots plans) (m) 

21699/25 advertisements on official forms (s) 

21735/25 Cloghphilip Castle, Cork, vesting proposal (s) 

OPW5 – 21850/25 – 22040/25 

21850/25 clerks of works, national monuments, 1901-25 (m) 

22034/25 accomm in Cork for Government departments (incl Cork Model School, 

plans) (ms) 

208

22040/25 Phoenix Park – sports grounds – general correspondence (ml) 

OPW5 – 22117/25 – 22932/25 

22117/25 Four Courts reconstruction, ‘Hollocast’ flooring, east and west pavilions 

(s) 

22289/25 Dundrum garda station, Tipperary, letting, works, old RIC plans (m) 

22427/25 Dublin Castle, mattresses for police (vs) 

22533/25 Moyree River drainage, Clare, scheme no 98 (ms) 

22838/25 Kill O’Grange DMP barracks and others, reconstruction (ml) 

22912/25 Four Courts, central hall (gallery), steelwork and concrete (s) 

22932/25 GPO reconstruction (m) 

OPW5 – 23003/25 – 24547/25 

23003/25 establishment: Mr G Deane Roe, assistant architect (s) 

23009/25 Mercantile Marine Buildings, Dublin & Cork, transferred to Board of 

Works (m) 

23219/25 heating in Clock Tower building, Dublin Castle and Custom House in 

1912 (vs) 

23621/25 Rosses Point coastguard station, Sligo, destruction file (s) 

23597/25 Governor-General’s Residence, insurance for ‘white rose’ boiler (s) 

24028/25 Phoenix Park, cess pits at Whitefields and Fort Lodge (vs) 

24029/25 Ashford national school, Limerick (s) 

24205/25 military stocks, oaken easy chairs (plans) (bits) (m) 

24349/25 St Bricin’s hospital valuation (plans) (m) 

24547/25 Lusk Round Tower, Dublin, 1885-1925 (s) 

OPW5 – 24958/25 – 25375/25 

24958/25 Dail and Seanad Chamber, raising floor and other works (lots plans) (m) 

25257/25 enamelled ware for army barracks, receipts (s) 

25313/25 Anbally Castle, Galway, vesting proposal (s) 

25344/25 State Lands Act 1924, commentary and statements (m) 

25374/25 utilisation of Dublin Castle for government offices, 1922-24 (plans) (m) 

25375/25 Custom House, Dublin, acquisition of reversionary interest (s) 

OPW5 – 31/26 – 185/26 

31/26 garage accommodation, Clonmel post office (plans, specs) (s) 

33/26 College Green Post Office, new flags, lights (vs) 

34/26 Trinity House employment exchange, ‘cottage’ to be built (vs) 

209

38/26 application for job as storekeeper (vs) 

44/26 Ballydaniel national schoolteacher’s residence (mostly pre-1922) (s) 

52/26 revival of Land Loans 1924, staffing arrangement (m) 

55/26 Balscadden Road, Howth, telegraph line (vs) 

68/26 Department of Defence, transfer of secretariat from Portobello (vs) 

71/26 Garda Siochana depot, furniture for new registry (vs) 

100/26 Galway Toy Factory, repairs (vs) 

105/26 extinguishers in Talbot House, training college (vs) 

108/26 Sligo former employment exchange, 34 Market St, landlord compensation 

claim (ms) 

136/26 Garda Siochana, cash boxes for district offices (vs) 

160/26 Clontarf coastguard station, Dublin, tenancies (m) 

179/26 Clonanstown Drainage District area (vs) 

184/26 purchase of furniture from individual in Dun Laoighaire (vs) 

185/26 Garda Siochana, St Lukes, Cork City, lease property file (m) 

OPW5 – 188/26 – 415/26 

212/26 Valuation Department, Ely Place, supply of carpet for Mr Stewart’s room 

(vs) 

213/26 purchase of foreign goods, cement (vs) 

233/26 distribution of Garda Siochana stations (vs) 

265/26 flooding of land, North Commons, Trim (vs) 

284/26 smoky chimney 62 Upper Mount St (vs) 

288/26 letter seeking employment (vs) 

289/26 letter seeking employment (1p) 

293/26 establishment: Mr JC Hehir HEO (on loan from OPW to Finance) (s) 

328/26 Buncrana former naval barracks, Donegal, tenure file (s) 

341/26 Drainage Act, 1925, inquiry (1p) 

353/26 Cork GPO, storage of Christmas post (under pressure) at Model School 

(vs) 

360/26 military gas works Athlone, renewal or repairs (plans) (s) 

361/26 Ship St Buildings, electric lighting (p, specs) (s) 

372/26 Hibernian School, damage by fire on 3th Oct 1923 and 9 th March 1925, 

restoration works (nice plans) (ms) 

378/26 gas radiator in staff room, Phibsborough Post Office (vs) 

415/26 West Dublin Model School, expenses, supplies (vs) 

OPW5 – 415/26 – 591/26 

445/26 military properties, emergency holdings (listed) (ms) 

453/26 supplies to Tipperary Training Centre (incl furniture) (m) 

457/26 note seeking employment (vs) 

481/26 Ordnance Survey – committee of inquiry, reports to OPW (s) 

210

485/26 orders for tea cans for army, receipts (s) 

488/26 Dublin Castle – Castle St Gate, underground public lavatory (vs) 

504/26 Garda Siochana station, Maam, temporary quarters file, leases (s) 

514/26 Garda Siochana station, Oola, Limerick, lease file (s) 

532/26 state symbolism, 1924-26 (lovely drawings) (s) 

561/26 Lloyd’s Register, shipping note (vs) 

568/26 establishment: architect’s districts and posts (s) 

575/26 Munster Institute, sewerage and water supply (s) 

591/26 gas consumption, Civic Guard Depot, Phoenix Park (ms) 

OPW5 – 592/26 – 875/26 

592/26 Ballyhean Garda Siochana, Mayo, purchase file (p. 1876) (s) 

604/26 Ballymacaw coastguard station, Waterford, lettings (ml) 

619/26 Ross Helton arterial drainage, Laois 1925 (s) 

622/26 note on assistant architect’s districts (2p) 

627-634/26 seven inspections of Waygood Otis lifts in government offices (vs) 

638/26 damage to buildings previous to truce of 1922, information assembled for 

Compensation Committee (gd bits) (s) 

679/26 savings and excesses on subheads Board of Works vote (s) 

687/26 increments to salaries of several OPW employees (s) 

702/26 Arterial Drainage Act 1925, Skibbereen damage (vs) 

739/26 supply orders for Phibsboro Broadcasting Station (forms) (vs) 

740/26 Ministry of Pensions offices, tenure (vs) 

780/26 Athlone, Custume Barracks, proposed garrison church (specs etc) (s) 

789/26 boiler inspections (1p) 

822/26 casual employees on Shannon Navigation (vs) 

875/26 McKee Barracks, Col Mulcahy’s Quarters, furnishing and inventory (s) 

OPW5 – 877/26 – 988/26 

877/26 horticultural and forestry works and supplies, tools, contracts (m) 

885/26 establishment: sections of OPW, clocks and working systems (vs) 

934/26 Phoenix Park – grazing at Whitefields, letting to superintendant (m) 

886/26 employment letter from ex-National Army soldier (1p) 

942/26 property valuation, Curragh Military Hospital (p) (s) 

951/26 Property compensation claim, 19 & 21 Lwr Bridge St, Joseph Bolster (s) 

958/26 Lifford railway station, temporary parcel office, lease (s0 

OPW5 – 1122/26 – 1471/26 

1122/26 Granagh or Granny Castle, Kilkenny, 1917-25 (s) 

1301/26 arterial drainage, Springlawn, Mt Bellew, Galway (s) 

211

1302/26 arterial drainage, Tonrany, Galway (s) 

1304/26 arterial drainage petition, Cappagh, Gortalea, Knockatee (s) 

********: 8 arterial drainage petitions 

1355/26 Dublin Castle, complaint that Court of Appeal was cold (vs) 

1359/26 screen for passport office, 23 Stephens Green (s) 

1375/26 employment letter (s) 

1397/26 Timahoe police barracks, reconstruction grant (s) 

1414/26 State Lands Act 1924, amendment and advice of OPW (m) 

1447/26 Roundwood Garda station, Wicklow, lease file (m) 

1465/26 Garda Siochana: reconstruction of barracks, aid for assistant architects (s) 

1471/26 Howth Harbour: damage to fishing boat, ‘Favourite’ (s) 

OPW5 – 1481/26 – 1652/26 

1481/26 Donaghmoyne national school, Monaghan, improvement works, 1920s (s) 

1514/26 national schools, provision in estimates, 1916-25 (s) 

1517/26 Ship St Barracks, allocation of blocks, Minister of Commerce offices (nice 

plans) (s) 

West Dublin Model School, oilcloth (vs) 

Presses for Inspector of Taxes office, Nassau St (vs) 

1579/26 old strong box taken from Four Courts given to National Museum (s) 

Leopardstown Hospital 500 gallon tanks and two loose covers (s) 

1618/26 House of Master of Horse, Dublin Castle, police occupation (s) 

1636/26 uncertainty over orders for coal (vs) 

lamps etc for office of Inspector of Taxes, Letterkenny (vs) 

1650/26 Ennis Abbey, 1892-1925 (ml) 

1652/26 Sligo Custom House, tenancy (s) 

OPW5 – 1728/26 – 1888/26 

1728/26 appointment of carpenter, William J Scott (g) (s) 

1743/26 bricklayers working for Board of Works (s) 

alterations to Bridewell DMP station, Chancery St (s) 

1806/26 Dublin Castle, external lamps (s) 

Mullingar post office, repair of safe 

National Army ex-soldiers applying for jobs as labourers 

1827/26 Kingstown Harbour & Shannon Harbour, rainfall records supplied to 

British Meteorological organization, notes on Irish rain-guages (little bits) 

(m) 

1884/26 Fleming estate case, land improvements (ml) 

1888/26 Inland Revenue, Stamping Dept, Dublin Castle, minor works etc (gd plan) 

(m) 

212

OPW5 – 1894/26 – 2057/26 

1894/26 Dundalk Barracks, furnishing carpets in officer’s quarters (s) 

1897/26 Kildare Barracks, furnishing carpets, Capt Lambert’s quarters (s) 

pruning trees at Mountjoy Prison (s) 

1946/26 Rosslare coastguard station, Wexford, tenancies (ml) 

1972/26 Drainage Maintenance Act, 1924, appointment of experienced engineers 

(m) 

1979/26 Killarney garda station, reconstruction file (plans and photos) (ms) 

Blackrock Hospital, installation of wireless receiving set (s) 

2038/26 importation of iron and steel girders, information for Dail works (s) 

Scart barracks, Waterford, damage to property claim (s) 

2057/26 Glencar & Fivemilebourne garda stations (ex-RIC), new location to be 

Glencar (s) 

OPW5 – 2076/26 – 2309/26 

2076/26 demolition of old and useless buildings (Ship St, Dublin Castle) (gd plan) 

appointment of engineer (s) 

2192/26 overhaul of dredgers, employment of Arthur Perkins, inspector (s) 

cost of newspaper advertisements 

housekeeper in residence of Governor-General fallen ill 

storm damaged national school in Wicklow 

2118/26 Clane national schoolteacher’s residence, file (m) 

2149/26 Ballyduff garda station, Waterford, purchase of site (s) 

2235/26 nos 3 & 4 College St, premises used by Inspector of Taxes, lease file (m) 

2248/26 Tondragee national schoolteacher’s residence, Roscommon (s) 

removal of Ministry of Pensions records from Cavan to Dublin 

Ministry of Pensions office, Upper Mount St, minor works 

Clonmel Model School, angry unpaid Clonmel supplier 

2295/26 security requirements of Board of Works workshops to rere of 28 Kildare 

St 

Newbridge Barracks, letting stables to town commissioners 

Note on payments to army contractor 

2309/26 Ministry of Pensions, Board of Works complaint that office shows 

excessive consumption of gas (s) 

OPW5 – 2237/26 – 2403/26 

2327/26 Farranfore garda station, reconstruction file, vol 1 (mostly property) (ms) 

expenses and suspension of GD Roe, Land Loans Inspector 

2347/26 North Aran (Kilronan) coastguard station, disposal 

2354/26 ancient sepulchral remains in Waterville district (vs) 

2372/26 automatic telephone exchange, Fitzwilliam Lane, works (gd plan) (m) 

213

2379/26 disposal of YMCA huts, various army barracks (s) 

2391/26 Tyholland custom hut, compensation for malicious injury (p) (s) 

2396/26 Ballycahill national school, Tipperary, out offices (s) 

2403/26 Meenacross national school, Donegal, desks etc (gd plan) (s) 

OPW5 – 2407/26 – 2627/26 

2407/26 Shanavoge national school, Miltown Malbay, Clare, enlargement (m) 

2418/26 arterial drainage, Waterford stream, Kilburry (s) 

2469/26 note seeking employment and interesting reply on procedures (vs) 

2501/26 heating in Bridgend customs hut (plans!) (vs) 

pedestal table for compensation section, Minister of Finance 

2509/26 repairs to fishing lodges in Mayo (Shaen, Lagduff, house in Burrishoole) 

(plan of Shaen Lodge) (s) 

2518/26 Post Office sectional engineers office, Victoria Road, Cork, Mercantile 

Marine Buildings, mostly renovation and leasing (gd page plan) (m) 

Reeaniree national school, removal floor sheets 

smoky chimney in Law Courts 

2393/26 furnishing quarters of Lieutenant Buckley, Kildare Barracks (s) 

contractors for Soldiers and Sailors scheme (Cork) 

Ministry of Pensions advisory council meeting at Dublin, furniture (s) 

application for job as French polisher 

2610/26 deputation from Council of Unemployed, application from ex-National 

Army (s) 

gravel for Leopardstown Park Hospital 

2627/26 regulation of trawlers at Haulbowline 

OPW5 – 2637/26 – 2862/26 

National Health Insurance stamps 

Rain gutter, St Patrick’s protestant cathedral 

Report on Waygood-Otis lifts, various 

2719/26 Geashill garda station, Offaly, lease file (s) 

Oysterhaven coast life saving service, fixed gate 

2738/26 Inchicore North Estate, corporation dumping ground, nuisance problem 

(ml) 

fire insurance policy for national school, Leitrim 

cultivation of garden at back of 64 Merrion Square 

gas meter 

overheated records room, Ship St buildings 

transfer of office furniture, Inspector of Taxes 

2862/26 Ventry national school, erection etc, 1910-25 (ml) 

214

OPW5 – 2874/26 – 2995/26 

2874/26 increments to salary of staff, routine forms (ml) 

2923/26 Athlone Barracks, misc files, furniture etc, early letters, 1922- (s) 

coal box for Inspector of Taxes, Nassau St 

2955/26 Monaghan Model School, improvement works (p, spec) (s) 

2956/26 cleaning and repair of Saorstat flags (s) 

2972/26 Birr Military Barracks, water supply (s) 

Athenry Agricultural School, caretaker of pump 

Post Office, Marlborough St premises used in Seanad election 

Coal supply to western command 

Governor-General’s residence, plant for pumping station 

2995/26 Ballymullen Barracks, Tralee, furnishing captains quarters (s) 

OPW5 – 2996/26 – 3214/26 

2996/26 Ministry of Labour, Industrial Branch, 5 South Mall, Cork, lease file (m) 

3004/26 Moveen national school, Clare, improvements (s) 

3071/26 erection of houses under Working Class Housing Acts, Glasnevin (1884) 

and Drumcondra (1889), George Fottrell (p) (s) 

3075/26 Munster Paint and Varnish Company, Limerick, memo on Irish materials 

(s) 

Mayfield national school inspection, Waterford 

Knockeens girls national school, Kerry, repairs 

3120/26 Ballymullen Barracks, Tralee, furnishing commandent’s quarters (s) 

water sprinkler for Carlow Employment Exchange 

Dublin GPO purchase of scrap 

3127/26 repairs to footpaths, Waterford Post Office (s) 

3173/26 Howth Harbour, letting store to J May (m) 

3186/26 Stephen’s Green, female attendant in lavatory (m) 

3188/26 parliamentary question (s) 

Templetuohy garda station 

Albert Agricultural College, repairs to front avenue 

OPW5 – 3216/26 – 3344/26 

Noisy door in No. 5 Court 

Furniture for Ministry of Pensions appeals tribunals, Lifford 

Inchicore North Estate grazing tender 

Admiralty properties in Cobh, letting of tennis court 

Underground telegraph cables in Dun Laoighaire 

3527/26 Leinster House, electric lighting at main gate 

3290/26 Portobello Barracks, furnishing commandants quarters (s) 

Mercantile Marine apparatus for examination of eye-sight 

215

3295/26 Pearse St Sorting Office, ventilation in registered letter section (sketch of 

fan) (s) 

3308/26 Derkmore coastguard station, grazing 

3312/26 Renard Point, works, tolls etc, 1911-25 (ml) 

drainage letter 

Cullies national school, Cavan, repairs 

3344/26 Redhills garda station, temporary premises (s) 

OPW5 – 3346/26 – 3523/26 

3346/26 Morris Mills garda station, Clare, lease file (s) 

3372/26 customs hut, notice boards, Tirconnaill (vs) 

3383/26 Haulbowline, loan of Capt Murphy of ‘Dainty’ (vs) 

3421/26 Dublin Customs House, supply of Irish cut stone (mostly receipts) (m) 

Chapelizod garda station, meat safe and swill tub 

Kill O’Grange DMP barracks, sweating of limestone 

Fire buckets needed at Manor St garda station 

3456/26 Tramore coastguard station, letting of boathouse 

3466/26 Knight’s Town (Valentia), coast life saving station (vs) 

vacancy for government driver 

3481/26 Ballyglass coastguard station, Mayo, grazing leases (m) 

fire extinguishers, Sligo Custom House 

arterial drainage, four petitions from Galway & Donegal 

3504/26 two Merrion Square, Dublin, purchase file (m) 

3563/26 Rossmuck garda station, lease issues and accommodation (s) 

OPW5 – 3529/26 – 3749/26 

3529/26 Hacketstown garda station, purchase/lease/adaptation file (qg) (ml) 

destruction of moths considered 

purchase of furniture from Ministry of Labour (m) 

washstand for Cork Stamping Office 

supply of rubber mats for army 

bed rests and bedtime screens for army 

sewer pipes etc for works at Clonakilty Agricultural Station 

supply of glass urine bottles for army hospital 

surrender of Kilgarvan ex-RIC premises 

pension to George Cuffe Bateman 

restoration of Roskeen ex-RIC barracks, Tipperary 

3652/26 Ardrahan garda station, purchase file etc (ex-RIC) 

3671/26 Marshalsea Barracks, Dublin tenancies (s) 

3675/26 Droichead Nua military barracks, disposal (m) 

3676/26 National Gallery, roof blinds etc (s) 

3680/26 fire precautions, Dublin Castle, revenue department (s) 

216

epairs to Ministry of Pensions 

accommodation needed for Patent Office 

3694/26 proposed state warehouse (described) (2p) 

3718/26 Coolderry national school, Kings County, cookery improvements (s) 

3747/26 Mooncoin garda station, Kilkenny, temporary premises (s) 

painting Clontarf garda station 

OPW5 – 3776/26 – 3860/26 

** 

3776/26 Phoenix Park, demesnes in Chief Secretary’s and Under-Secretary’s 

lodges, grazing (ml) 

vacancy for pipe fitter 

employment letter 

3821/26 Keogh Square, removal of building stone 

3835/26 Botanic Gardens, provision for new weigh-bridge (s) 

3846/26 proposed vesting of childhood home of Oliver Goldsmith, Lissoy, 

Longford (s) 

3847/26 Carlow Presentation Convent national school, erection etc, 1898-1925 (l) 

3860/26 Omeath coastguard station, tenancies (ml) 

OPW5 – 3863/26 – 4136/26 

**** 

3881/26 return of contracts in Irish Free State, general correspondence (s) 

lino in army officers quarters 

3917/26 sheets, bolster, pillow cases, officers quarters (s) 

provision of incubator room, Clonakilty Agricultural Station (s) 

3943/26 new water main, Kevin St DMP barracks, find of skeletons (vs) 

4036/26 Kilpatrick national school, Kilkenny (erection, 1913-20) (m) 

repairs to Eglish national school 

4043/26 Midleton Distillery, lease file (s) 

4047/26 Ballinacourty coastguard station, Waterford, grazing leases (s) 

4124/26 Dublin GPO, block B, contract with Martin’s Ltd (ms) 

OPW5 – 4139/26 – 4197/26 

4140/26 Government of Ireland Act, 1920, staff analysis, correspondence (lots) 

(ml) 

4139/26 knowledge of Irish, information from staff (completed forms) (m) 

4142/26 appointment of clerk of works, Kerry district (vs) 

4148/26 Dublin Castle Law Courts, bar luncheon room (s) 

4197/26 Mullingar post office, alterations, works file (p) (ml) 

217

OPW5 – 4205/26 – 4369/26 

* 

4205/26 Berehaven calibrating range (leases) (s) 

4210/26 death of George Holmes (former Commissioner of Public Works), naval 

engineer, in London, after an operation, aged 76, third son of Mr George 

Holmes of Moycashel Co Westmeath and nephew of Scott Russell 

(famous), who built the SS Great Eastern, after 23 years continuous 

membership of Institution of Naval Architects, appointed chairman of 

OPW in 1901, made KCB in 1911 just before retirement, knighted in 1906 

(vs) 

4332/26 national schools, standardized designs for playsheds (lots plans, specs) (m) 

4268/26 destruction of Mallow bridewell (s) 

4328/26 Oireachtas Eireann, erection of trunk call telephone cabinet (lovely plans 

of Oireachtas etc) (s) 

4369/26 Lough Gara and Mantua Drainage District (m) 

OPW5 – 4374/26 – 4417/26 

4374/26 Keogh Square, letting to corporation for conversion into dwellings (lots 

plans – pinned) (ml) 

4385/26 Dublin-Cork steamer service (ml) 

4394/26 Ballyneety garda station, Limerick, ex-RIC purchase file (s) 

4407/26 Paulstown garda station, Kilkenny, purchase file (p) (s) 

4417/26 Templeorum garda station, Kilkenny, purchase file (s) 

OPW5 – 4423/26 – 4474/26 

4423/26 establishment: insurance against accident in Cape Clear harbour and 

marine works generally, forms only (vl) 

seventeen arterial drainage petition files, mostly County Mayo. 

OPW5 – 4476/26 – 4517/26 

22 arterial drainage scheme petitions (mostly County Mayo) 

OPW5 – 4521/26 – 4813/25 

*** & 13 arterial drainage petitions (Co Mayo) 

4599/26 Islandbridge Barracks, furnishing Commandent Murphy’s quarters (s) 

218

4594/26 renovation of bothy, Athenry Agricultural School (vs) 

4654/26 Limerick Harbour extension scheme, reports on foot of Trade Loans Act, 

1926, loan question (m) 

4659/26 Cork Employment Exchange, acquisition by Buckingham Stores, Union 

Quay, adaptation plans (large plan) (qg) (m) 

4692/26 order of Irish brooms 

4731/26 St Stephen’s Green railings, manufacture and repair (nice plan) (s) 

4813/26 Carndonagh garda station, Donegal, works and repairs file (s) 

OPW5 – 4843/26 – 5129/26 

************* 

4870/26 Local Loans, cessation in 1923 and proposed resumption in 1925 (m) 

Leopardstown Park Hospital, fire in cowshed 

External plastering Westport Post Office 

Customs and Excise, Cobh, ceiling 

4881/26 establishment: instructions from Dept of Finance on appointments, 

promotions etc (m) 

Lough Corrib drainage, employment of gauge reader 

Dismissal of labourer in Dun Laoighaire, interference on his behalf by 

Bryan Cooper TD (vs) 

4916/26 Bennetsbridge garda station, temporary premises, rent file (s) 

5049/26 Galway War Pensions Committee, 4 Eyre Square, Galway, Bishopscourt 

House, rent and furniture (m) 

TD recommends work for man as gardener in Phoenix Park 

5127/26 Curragh Camp, furnishing of bungalow at Handley Cross, commandent’s 

quarters (s) 

5129/26 Curragh Camp, furnishings, Lieutenant Shevlin’s quarters (s) 

OPW5 – 5138/26 – 5364/26 

*****, several inspection reports on office lifts 

5227/26 Leinster House, Seanad, clock, card-holders etc (vs) 

5230/26 alterations to Kilworth estate cottage (vs) 

5245/26 Leopardstown Park Hospital, Ministry of Pensions, supply of clothes, 

surgical equipment, sheets, crockery etc (m) 

9 arterial drainage petitions (Mayo & Sligo) 

5364/26 Phoenix Park, passes for traders’ vehicles (m) 

OPW5 5371/26 – 5466/26 

*****, AD 

219

5371/26 periodical contracts for building works and supplies, Dublin district (some 

good lists) (bits) (m) 

5381/26 housing of working classes, Roscommon, GJ Black (s) 

5436/26 Governor-General’s Lodge, laundry, utilization as DMP barrack instead of 

Bessboro barracks (p) (m) 

5444/26 Kiltartan national school, Gort, 1892-1925 (ordered by Angela Rolfe 1 st 

Sept 1992) (m) 

5449/26 Kinsale Customs House, Customs & Excise office, footbridge to pier area 

(s) 

OPW5 – 5545/26 – 5670/26 

***** 

5545/26 Berehaven calibrating range, surrender of Admiralty property (s) 

5553/26 Dept of Education, revision of rules for school construction (s) 

5592/26 gas consumption in residential quarters, Dublin (housekeepers, caretakers 

etc) (ml) 

5629/26 Tipperary training centre for British ex-service men, furniture orders (s) 

5631/26 Board of Works offices, employment of night watchmen, personnel file 

(m) 

5666/26 Dun Laoighaire coastguard station, tenancy (s) 

5669/26 St Columba’s, Aghamore, Mayo, national school, erection and 

improvements, 1920s (BOW plans) (m) 

5670/26 repairs at Drumbeg national school, Donegal (s) 

OPW5 – 5711/26 – 5767/26 

******* 

5711/26 estimates, new military works, general correspondence (exct) (m) 

5719/26 Tuckey St garda station, Cork City, lease file (s) 

5762/26 Kingstown Harbour, overhaul of three dredgers, 1924-26 (ml) 

5764/26 Berehaven calibrating range, surrender of beacon (s) 

5767/26 Tiaquinn national school,Galway, improvements (s) 

OPW5 – 5771/26 – 5977/26 

******, AD 

5771/26 Central Model School, infants, repairs etc (s) 

5827/26 Bennetsbridge garda station, Kilkenny, purchase of site for extension (s) 

5884/26 payment of retention money in building contracts (vs) 

5897/26 set of charts for dredgers (g) (vs) 

5899/26 J Gallivan, temporary clerk of works, Compensation Inspector (qg) (s) 

5900/26 Keogh Square, ownership of salvage (s) 

220

5943/26 Berehaven calibrating range (s) 


5947/26 Rathmullen coastguard station, tenancies (s) 

5968/26 Cobh old lifeboat house, surrender by RNLI (s) 

5977/26 Ardrahan garda station, Galway, temporary premises file (s) 

OPW5 – 6028/26 – 6127/26 

** 

6028/26 Ballybrophy post office, official residence, rent and furniture (p) (qg) (m) 

6048/26 Barrow drainage, general correspondence (vg) (s) 

6050/26 Governor-General’s residence, Dept of Finance v Maj-Gen Cullen, 

recovery of possession of Private Secretary’s Lodge (good early bits) (m) 

6089/26 Clarecastle garda station, Clare, rent and repairs, 1892-1926 (bits) (s) 

6121/26 Berehaven calibrating range, surrender of observation huts etc (s) 

6127/26 Renmore coast life saving store (s) 

OPW5 – 6134/26 – 6235/26 

** 

6134/26 Fergus Drainage District, Clare (ml) 

6150/26 Dun Laoighaire Harbour, Carlisle Pier - renewal of timber piles (vs) 

6207/26 Moydow national school & residence, Longford, 1870s-1920s (ms) 

6212/26 Howth Harbour, electric lighting of Balscadden Road (s) 

6235/26 Haulbowline, disposal of SS ‘John Summers’ (a trawler owned and in use 

by the IRA in 1922) (lots bits) (m) 

OPW5 – 6248/26 – 6323/26 

*** 

6248/26 Dromod garda station, Leitrim, purchase file (exct plans) (qg) (s) 

6279/26 Marlboro Hall preparatory college, and general correspondence (s) 

6302/26 Blackrock Hospital & Leopardstown Park Hospital, sundry supplies (s) 

6372/26 Inver national school, Mayo, 1882-1925 (p) (m) 

6322/26 Kildysart garda station, Co Clare, occupied by National Army 

troops,afterwards taken over by Garda Siochana (sketch) (m) 

6323/26 Lisacasey garda station, Co Clare, preparations for building (lots plans) 

(ms) 

OPW5 – 6334/26 – 6563/26 

***** 

221

6334/26 estimates – need for increase in staff, costed and basis explained to Dept 

of Finance (ms) 

6355/26 Arklow Branch Employment Office, additional accommodation (gd early 

letter) (s) 

6368/26 Erin fire extinguishers (s) 

6377/26 Dun Laoighaire coastguard depot, occupation by squatters (s) 

6471/26 Dublin Custom House, purchase of concrete mixer (s) 

6489/26 Berehaven – pontoon hulk, ‘KB Linemann’ (s) 

6563/26 applications for plans and specifications, from contractors (m) 

OPW5 – 6605/26 – 6689/26 

** 

6635/26 contracts for lino, carpets etc (bits?) (ml) 

6654/26 Castletownbere Customs & Excise, Cork, accommodation lease, minor 

repairs (m) 

6683/26 Duleek Priory, Meath (usual) (s) 

6689/26 Clonbur ex-RIC barracks, Galway, letting to parish priest (m) 

OPW5 – 6696/26 – 6919/26 

****** 

6696/26 Monaghan town garda station (Corlat House), evacuation by S division (s) 

6700/26 Wexford old Customs premises, conversion into two dwellings, works file 

(m) 

6703/26 Clodiagh Drainage District, Tipperary, apportionment certificate etc (m) 

6707/26 Drainage Maintenance Act 1924, appointments file, preparation of 

charging order (gd bits) (m) 

6760/26 example of National Army soldier, former blacksmith, getting job (vs) 

6788/26 Dublin Castle, utilization of accommodation by Government Departments, 

1925-26 (s) 

6810/26 Berehaven calibrating range, beacon, observation hut (s) 

6817/26 Sligo-Belmullet Steamer – transfer to Industry & Commerce (s) 

6885/26 Pullochenny coastguard station, Mayo, tenancy of boathouse (s) 

6902/26 St Johnstone, Donegal garda station, property compensation claim (s) 

OPW5 – 6945/26 – 7189/26 

******* 

6945/26 Phoenix Park – training and exercising racehorses, license holders etc (ml) 

6986/26 Inchigeela garda station, Cork, restoration works file (p) (ms) 

6991/26 whitewashing and repairing DMP barracks, general correspondence (s) 

7056/26 Barrow Drainage – protection of fisheries during course of work (vs) 

222

7140/26 Carrignavar national school, Cork, repairs (vs) 

7182/26 Dunshaughlin garda station, Meath, preliminary works file (s) 

7184/26 Inishannon garda station, Cork, lease file (s) 

7189/26 Kingscourt garda station, Cavan, temporary file (rent, accommodation) 

(ms) 

OPW5 – 7204/26 – 7286/26 

**** 

7204/26 St Andrews national school, Dublin, enlargement, conversions etc (lots 

plans) (m) 

7208/26 Ballinamore national school, Donegal (Fintown), 1865-1925 (ms) 

7216/26 Munster Institute, Cork, electric lighting etc (m) 

7227/26 Cashen River coastguard station, Kerry, letting land, boathouse etc (s) 

7286/26 annual estimates, imperial services, correspondence (exct) (ml) 

OPW5 – 7323/26 – 7516/26 

***, AD, several lift inspections 

7323/26 note on works in GPO (vs) 

7344/26 Ballina garda station, Mayo, temporary rent file (ok) (s) 

7360/26 Killarney garda station, Kerry, purchase file (s) 

7392/26 Moygara Castle, Sligo (nice plans) (qg) (s) 

7413/26 conversion of military barracks into garda stations, eleven separate cases, 

mostly 1870-90 period (p) (s) 

7419/26 Garda Depot, re-tuning boilers (s) 

7456/26 applications from clerks of works to Civil Service Commission (ml) 

7516/26 Ballinacurrig garda station, Cork, works file (sketch of old RIC barracks) 

(ms) 

OPW5 – 7540/26 – 7677/26 

********* 

7540/26 Mallow Military Barracks, rent (s) 

7563/26 note on GPO shops (vs) 

7581/26 Rathmullen water supply, old Fort, letting, herring curing store (p) (ml) 

7620/26 clock-winding contract, Cork City public buildings (s) 

7629/26 Kanturk garda station, lease file (s) 

7630/26 Kilcolgan garda station, Galway, temporary premises file (s) 

7646/26 Longford Artillery Barracks, rent file (s) 

7669/26 Gortalassa national school, Cork (commenced 1840-45), lots plans etc 

from c.1900 (s) 

7677/26 Roches Point coastguard and signal station (s) 

223

OPW5 – 7682/26 – 7904/26 

******* 

7682/26 Ballymullen Barracks, Tralee, repairs and reconstruction (useful) (p) (m) 

7685/26 correspondence with Northern Ireland Monuments branch over national 

monuments (vs) 

7690/26 Barrow Drainage – valuation of water power sites (vs) 

7699/26 record of inspections of national monuments (s) 

7745/26 no. 5 Post Office Buildings, Henry St (plans) (vs) 

7752/26 Mason Island national school, Galway, repairs (p) (s) 

7756/26 Kilclooney national school, Donegal, repairs etc, 1905-25 (s) 

7759/26 Glenvar national school, Letterkenny (vs) 

7821/26 conversion of Tallow coastguard station (problem discussed in Dail) (s) 

7843/26 reports of defective supplies (s) 

7848/26 Phoenix Park – letting of Under-Secretary’s gardens (vg) (m) 

7885/26 contract for bread slicing machines (s) 

7897/26 Curracloe coastguard station, tenancies (s) 

OPW5 – 7908/26 – 8096/26 

AD, * 

7908/26 National Library, Dublin, wrought iron gate and railings (p) (vs) 

7927/26 Balla garda station, Mayo, reconstruction file (p) (s) 

7934/26 St Nicholas garda station, Cork City, locating house (qg) (s) 

7962/26 Ministry of Pensions, Mount St, surplus furniture (s) 

7974/26 Soldiers Point, coastguard station, Louth, tenancies (ml) 

7992/26 Dun Laoighaire nuisance - smoke from trains (vs) 

8053/26 Fethard Military Barracks, lettings (s) 

8096/26 hire of cars and chauffeurs in public service (s) 

OPW5 – 8114/26 – 8266/26 

* 

8114/26 materials and works carried out on time (general) (vs) 

8116/26 supplies for Blackrock Hospital, inquiry into delays (s) 

8141/26 Stoneyford garda station, Kilkenny, reconstruction file (p, spec) (s) 

8154/26 Garda Depot, new press etc (vs) 

8191/26 Rathangan River Drainage Board, 1914-25 (ml) 

8192/26 Shannon Navigation, Clonahenogue Canal Bank (ms) 

8202/26 Drainage apportionments, JS Sharkey personnel file (s) 

8260/26 Kilnaboy national school-teacher’s residence, Clare (ms) 

8266/26 Cork Customs House, purchase of ground (s) 

224

OPW5 – 8272/26 – 8537/26 

******* 

8272/26 regular publication of contracts (bits?) (m) 

8276/26 Drinagh Cement Works (Wexford), government orders (s) 

8280/26 drainage accident 

8281/26 several drainage accidents (labourers) (vs) 

8399/26 Ministry of Pensions, appeals tribunals, Cork, Limerick etc (m) 

8462/26 unauthorised interference with Crown Alley Building by Dept of Defence 

– apology to BOW (vs) 

8493/26 Lisball national school, Cavan (s) 

8498/26 supply of ticken, stocks in store (s) 

8512/26 motor cars on office business, proposed civil service staff-loans to 

purchase necessary cars (s) 

8530/26 Cork (Michael) Military Barracks, hutments site, emergency holdings (s) 

8535/26 tender of Magdalen Asylum to clean, OPW towels (s) 

OPW5 – 8597/26 – 8714/26 

*** 

8597/26 Newmarket national school, Kilkenny, 1910-25 (ml) 

8601/26 national schools, design rules (m) 

8657/26 gas cookers at Arbour Hill Barracks (s) 

8661/26 Leopardstown Park Hospital, supply of stone (vs) 

8664/26 Stationary engine drivers, steam stokers, heating, wages, Museum Boiler 

House (s) 

8677/26 estimates 1926-27, new military works, monthly progress reports (s) 

8693/26 Dundrum Asylum, supplies (s) 

8711/26 Custom House, Dublin, restoration scheme plans (3 plans) (s) 

8713/26 Cork Income Tax Office, 26 Sydney Place, Cork, Roche’s Buildings (2 

plans) (bits (m) 

8714/26 Blackrock Hospital, proposed surrender of nurses hostel at Rockfield, 

suggested alternatives (3 plans) (s) 

OPW5 – 8715/26 – 8979/26 

5AD 

8715/26 window cleaning in Sligo (s) 

8747/26 Ministry of Pensions, Ballina sub-office (s) 

8766/26 John G Brennan, appointment file (EO), retirement due to TB (s) 

8785/26 Waterville garda station, lease file (s) 

8786/26 Michael Murphy, carter, Under-Secretary’s gardens (s) 

225

8871/26 Bridgend frontier customs hut, erection, works (p) (ms) 

8887/26 establishment, furniture branch, additional assistants (s) 

8944/26 Clontarf coastguard station, rent file (s) 

OPW5 – 9033/26 – 9141/26 

***** 

9033/26 dredger ‘Sisyphus’, appointment of dredger master (m) 

9045/26 Belmullet Steamship Company, general correspondence, 1898-1920 (ml) 

9109/26 Shannon Navigation, Tarmonbarry boathouse, site lease (s) 

9141/26 Kilcolgan garda station, Galway, purchase file (s) 

OPW5 – 9158/26 – 9300/26 

***** 

9158/26 National Library extension, works and plans (ml) 

9169/26 Waterford Employment Exchange, painting and repairs (s) 

9225/26 Tullow garda station, temporary premises file (s) 

9276/26 Limerick City war pensions committee, 10 Lwr Mallow St, Limerick, 

lease, alteration works (m) 

9274/26 employment letter (vs) 

9300/26 Clonakilty garda station, materials delivered (vs) 

OPW5 – 9305/26 – 9561/26 

******** 

9312/26 damage to army furniture in transit (vs) 

9325/26 Lawrencetown garda station, temporary premises file (s) 

9388/26 Dolla garda station, Tipperary, purchase file (ms) 

9392/26 Collins-Griffith memorial, annual ceremony (m) 

9400/26 Under-Secretary’s Lodge, laundry buildings, caretaker (s) 

9470/26 staff returns and promotions since 1922 (s) 

9495/26 Meentaggart proposed national school (vs) 

9505/26 Rathmullen coastguard school, Donegal, tenancy (s) 

9548/26 Teelin coastguard station, Donegal, lettings, boathouse, caretaker (m) 

9561/26 Killybegs coastguard station, tenancy (s) 

OPW5 – 9613/26 – 9704/26 

**** 

9613/26 Herbertstown garda station, Limerick, lease file (s) 

9646/26 Collins Barracks, reconstruction, general works file (p) (ml) 

226

9654/26 army stock, supplies, tables, chairs etc (s) 

9683/26 Dun Laoighaire coastguard station, repairs and renovation, cottage and 

houses (m) 

9704/26 Kinvara harbour, constable and bye-laws (ml) 

OPW5 – 9730/26 – 9831/26 

**** etc 

9730/26 Dundrum garda station, Co Dublin, ex-RIC barrack and court-house, lease 

file (m) 

9738/26 Phoenix Park – electric lighting in public buildings etc, 1906-25 (ml) 

9739/26 damage to Board of Works property by firms delivering coal (s) 

9755/26 Curragh Camp, Mr Prendeville, former employee sent to drainage works 

(s) 

9776/26 locker and works Merrion St telephone exchange (s) 

9826/26 Gormanstown Camp, water supply, acquisition of land (m) 

OPW5 – 9836/26 – 10058/26 

** 

9836/26 Haulbowline - permission to army to inspect the island (vs) 

9844/26 Coonara national school, Kerry, cookery fittings (s) 

9854/26 National Library extension, heating of strong room (s) 

9856/26 proposed sweeping (dredging) for obstructions in Dublin Bay (s) 

9877/26 Duleek garda station, Meath, temporary premises file (s) 

9884/26 Glenamaddy garda station, Galway, temporary file (s) 

9929/26 raid on Dundrum Asylum (vs) 

9954/26 order of bookcases for Army Soldiers Welfare Scheme libraries (p) (s) 

10023/26 Berehaven calibrating range, surrender of properties (s) 

10024/26 Berehaven calibrating range, surrender of properties (s) 

10052/26 Post Offices general, works and procedures (ml) 

10058/26 Garda Stations, complaints as to bad conditions, works progress (s) 

OPW5 – 10087/26 – 10218/26 

********* 

10087/26 St Joseph’s, Dorset St national school, 1894-1925, enlargement 1925 (ml) 

10104/26 Mountjoy Prison, electric lighting, 1924-26 (m) 

10116/26 motor mower for Phoenix Park (lovely advertisement pictures) (s) 

10134/26 Howth Harbour, letting store no. 19 (ms) 

10156/26 McKee barracks, supply of lino to officer’s quarters (s) 

10167/26 GP Board, supplies (s) 

10173/26 disposal of unwanted military hut at Blacklion, Cavan (s) 

227

10177/26 Green St garda station, alterations (vs) 

10211/26 Four Courts reconstruction, stone columns, contract (s) (p) 

OPW5 – 10223/26 – 10275/26 

* 

10223/26 Ballycowan Drainage District, Kildare (m) 

10238/26 Crosskeys garda station, Cavan (vs) 

10261/26 lease of premises in Beggars Bush Barracks, O’Brien’s Place (p) (s) 

10262/26 list of approved contractors, Dublin (ml) 

10264/26 Athy post office, repairs (vs) 

10265/26 Amiens St parcel depot, motor vehicle accommodation etc (s) 

10266/26 GPO, shop sites on arcade (vs) 

10275/26 Berehaven Admiralty property, general files, caretaking, maintenance, oil 

pumps and tanks (ml) 

OPW5 – 10281/26 – 10516/26 

11AD, **** 

10281/26 Kilmacowan national school, Cork, improvements etc, 1908-25 (m) 

10391/26 Ministry of War Pensions, local committees, rent, works, furniture, 1916- 

25 (m) 

10395/26 accident to workman at Jerpoint Abbey (vs) 

10510/26 Ballymacourty Drainage District, Limerick, 1920-25 (m) 

OPW5 – 10525/26 – 10707/26 

*****, 1AD 

10533/26 St Joseph’s national school, Derrywash, Mayo, 1904 on (m) 

10543/26 Castlegregory garda station, Kerry, purchase file (m) 

10588/26 establishment: appointment of parliamentary secretary to Finance (s) 

10577/26 coal allowance for Brussels office (vs) 

10588/26 Post Office Factory, Kingsbridge (formerly Munitions factory), works (m) 

10607/26 Mullagh national school, Galway (s) 

10622/26 arrangements for leave, OPW architectural services, 1926-28 (bits) (s) 

10627/26 Dun Laoighaire, garda during aid during harbour strike (vs) 

10707/26 Rocktate teacher’s residence, 1902- (m) 

OPW5 – 10735/26 – 10813/26 

10AD 

10735/26 Clonakilty drainage report (vs) 

228

10758/26 Ring garda station, Waterford, temporary premises file (bits, plans) (m) 

10777/26 coal controller, accommodation (vs) 

10793/26 Meelin girls national school, Cork, repairs (s) 

10813/26 Dunmore East weekly fishing returns, April 1920- (completed forms) (ml) 

OPW5 – 10830/26 – 10895/30 

* 

10830/26 Kilann garda station, Wexford, temporary premises file (s) 

10844/26 Howth Harbour, weekly fishing returns, April 1920- (completed forms) 

(ml) 

10869/26 Wages Advisory Committee, meetings and decisions (very interesting 

stuff) (ml) 

10895/26 Ballybrittas garda station, Leix, purchase file (m) 

OPW5 – 10911/26 – 10978/26 

*****, 3AD 

10915/26 Cloonfree national school, Roscommon (s) 

10920/26 steam coal supplies (gas coal) (vs) 

10946/26 Ennis garda station, purchase file (ex-RIC) (s) 

10960/26 Longford garda station, rents, alterations (s) 

10947/26 accident in Fergus DD (vs) 

10969/26 Arigna Mining Company – application for government contracts (ml) 

OPW5 – 11009/26 – 11177/26 

************* 

11064/26 Sligo Customs House, reconstruction, works file etc (plans) (ml) 

11100/26 Howth refreshement hut for fishermen on East Pier (vs) 

11114/26 Beal Lough, Berehaven, additional property, surrender of Furious Pier etc 

(m) 

11177/26 St Brigid’s national school, Wexford, 1885-1925, works (ml) 

OPW5 – 11180/26 – 11273/26 

11180/26 establishment: temporary architectural assistants, appt and correspondence 

file etc (m) 

11204/26 Barnaderg garda station, Galway, temporary quarters (qg) (s) 

11223/26 lettings at the Curragh (s) 

11240/26 Killursa glebe loan of 1890 (building destroyed) (p) (s) 

11270/26 Civic Guard Depot, redecoration of ante-room (vs) 

229

11271/26 General Valuation Office, 5 Ely Place, letting of premises at rear (p) (m) 

11273/26 Ordnance Survey Office, fire-proof store (special doors) (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 11274/26 – 11356/26 

1AD, * 

11274/26 Barrow drainage, suggested modifications to Professor Meyer Peter’s 

scheme (m) 

11286/26 GPO shop sites (vs) 

11295/26 rates and rents file (s) 

11308/26 Spiddal boys school, plans (s) 

11312/26 Reentrisk national school, Cork, 1886-1925 (s) 

11314/26 Bullsmouth national school, Mayo, 1900-25 (ml) 

11353/26 Collins Barracks, Cork, new hospital, heating, lighting etc (m) 

OPW5 – 11415/26 – 11456/26 

Several lift inspection reports 

11415/26 Portrane coastguard station, letting site and ruins, Portrane mental hospital 

involved in property discussion (m) 

11417/26 Galway Customs House, storage accommodation, works (ml) 

11422/26 Commonaline national school-teacher’s residence, 1890- (s) 

11442/26 Board of Works annual report, with commentary on procedures (s) 

11451/26 Vice-Regal Lodge, electric passenger lift, works etc (m) 

OPW5 – 11458/26 – 11606/26 

**** 

11458/26 supplies for army barracks (s) 

11501/26 Carrick-on-Shannon convent national school, Leitrim, 1887-1925 (p) (ml) 

11505/26 Myrtleville national school-teacher’s residence, Cork, 1880- (p) (s) 

11516/26 Berehaven calibrating range, zero mark, Whiddy Island (s) 

11539/26 arterial drainage in England and Wales, Report of 1927 Commission, 

newspaper cuttings (m) 

11606/26 coal for Wexford Military Barracks and other places in SE Leinster (s) 

OPW5 – 11616/26 – 11906/26 

************ 

11616/26 Leinster House, Oireachtas, orders for special furniture (drawings) (m) 

11624/26 supply of laboratory apparatus for butter-testing station, Harcourt St (s) 

11635/26 Loreto convent national school, Navan, Meath (s) 

230

11690/26 post master’s residence (lists) (vs) 

11745/26 Sligo No 2 garda station, painting and repairs (s) 

11778/26 Union Hall coastguard station, tenancies (s) 

11893/26 Shannon Bridge barracks, Offaly, rent (s) 

11899/26 Pearse St garda station, detective branch, electric lighting (s) 

11906/26 Killarga garda station, Leitrim, lease file (s) 

OPW5 – 11907/26 – 11998/26 

*******, 1AD 

11907/26 Sallybank national school-teacher’s residence, repairs (vs) 

11918/26 Howth Harbour, weekly fishing returns (m) 

11919/26 Dunmore East weekly fishing returns (m) 

11932/26 establishment; monthly return of staff (bits) (ml) 

11933/26 Ordnance Survey Office, heating printing room (vs) 

11940/26 Ballinahinch garda station, Co Galway, temporary premises (s) 

11963/26 Fowler Hall, 10 Parnell Square, under consideration as parcels depot 

(Customs) (s) 

11973/26 Dun Laoighaire coastguard station, lease of cottage (s) 

OPW5 – 12001/26 – 12226/26 

*****************, 1AD 

12038/26 Tiraun Lodge, Belmullet, repairs (vs) 

12052/26 Department of Education, transfer of exam papers (s) 

12091/26 compensation in respect of drainage accident (vs) 

12114/26 Dundrum Asylum, proposed works on cricket ground, pavilion, etc (p) (m) 

12129/26 Berehaven calibrating range, surrender of property (s) 

12150/26 premises offered for lease, various Dublin buildings etc (plans) (m) 

12158/26 Cloone garda station, temporary premises (s) 

12188/26 Customs House, Dublin, salvage arrangements (mostly receipts) (ml) 

OPW5 – 12245/26 – 12479/26 

*********, 2AD. 

12245/26 Department of Agriculture, Sligo Quay disinfectant shed, site plans (s) 

12273/26 Carrigaholt garda station, Clare, temporary premises file (s) 

12288/26 Sligo Customs House yard, lease etc (m) 

12300/26 tarviating paths in Dublin Zoo (vs) 


12341/26 Killenaule coastguard station, Tipperary, lease, alterations (s) 

12397/26 Dublin GPO, fatal accident to James Douglas (vs) 

12479/26 Stephen’s Green, new greenhouse (p) (m) 

231

OPW5 – 12509/26 – 12619/26 

** 

12509/26 Doneraile garda station, Cork, rent file (s) 

12525/26 Phoenix Park, football pavilion and games (s) 

12553/26 Greencastle coastguard station, lettings (s) 

12558/26 farm building plans, OPW advice to Cork University (s) 

12559/26 Dublin Custom House, Portland stone for windows (vs) 

12567/26 Kildare garda station, decorating (s) 

12607/26 Kilworth Forestry Centre, repairs to labourer’s cottage (s) 

12611/26 Giles Quay coast life saving station, Dundalk (vs) 

12619/26 Phoenix Park, venison warrants and issued to government (m) 

OPW5 – 12625/26 – 12897/26 

*****************, 1AD 

12684/26 Linen Hall barracks, lease to Dublin Corporation (m) 

12698/26 Dunmore East harbour, lettings (ml) 

12709/26 Ardagh national school, Longford (s) 

12849/26 Templeorum garda station, purchase file (s) 

122865/26 garage at government offices, Upper Merrion St (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 12915/26 – 13107/26 

** 

12915/26 supply of blinds, Eastern Command (s) 

12998/26 delivery of card tables to army barracks (s) 

13005/26 oak washstands for army barracks (plans, specs) (s) 

13010/26 fish drainers for army kitchens (s) 

13017/26 oak dressing tables delivered to army barracks (specs, plan) (s) 

13057/26 Shandon DD, Waterford (Dungarvan area) (s) 

13076/26 OPW Drawing Office, printing room staff, appointment of female tracer 

(qg) (s) 

13078/26 establishment: OPW Drawing Office, appointment of Miss Kessler (s) 


OPW5 – 13116/26 – 13427/26 

**************** 

13116/26 establishment: Board of Works labourers, reductions etc (m) 

13194/26 Kevin St DMP station, plastering etc (s) 

232

13253/26 broadcasting station, post of director and assistant director (s) 

13273/26 OPW Galway district office of works, public buildings and administration, 

personnel file of Mr Tighe (ml) 

13331/26 Wm Joseph Gillin, 2 nd division clerk, personnel file (1863- (s) 

13337/26 visit of superintendent of Phoenix Park to gardens in Munster (s) 

13427/26 Inland Revenue offices, 32 Nassau St, Dublin (s) 

OPW5 – 13429/26 – 13547/26 

*** 

13429/26 Blackrock and Leopardstown Park Hospital, fire precautions (exct plans) 

(m) 

13446/26 Berehaven calibrating range, beacon no. 2 (s) 

13474/26 Arbour Hill military barracks, rent file (s) 

13504/26 pointing roofs of national schools in mastic cement, various examples (s) 

13541/26 Rathduff garda station, Cork, main file site, purchase etc (m) 

13545/26 Moneygall garda station, Offaly, main file (purchase etc) (m) 

13547/26 Skreen garda station, Sligo, temporary premises (m) 

OPW5 – 13557/26 – 13701/26 

*****, AD 

13590/26 Kilkelly DD, report on scheme (s) 

13638/26 Bunbeg garda station, temporary accommodation (s) 

13637/26 contractor’s yard, Arbour Hill, Dublin, letting (m) 

13695/26 staff of OPW drawing office, 1850-1926, correspondence and 

appointments etc (ml) 

OPW5 – 13732/26 – 13841/26 

*****, 1AD 

13732/26 GPO Henry St frontage, correspondence & law case (ml) 

13776/26 FW Aylward, land inspector, dismissed, personnel file (s) 

13798/26 Castletown garda station, Westmeath, purchase file (ms) 

13841/26 Droichead Nua Military Barracks, letting to town commissioners (s) 

OPW5 – 13860/26 – 14045/26 

******* 

13860/26 Preparatory Colleges, 1925-26 (exct) (ml) 

13874/26 travelling expenses, letter of inquiry to Dept of Finance (vs) 

13928/26 military supplies, fire rakes (s) 

233

13975/26 insurance of boilers, plant, inspections etc, Dept of Agriculture (l) 

13995/26 Gurteen garda station, Sligo, purchase and repairs, works (p) (ms) 

14025/26 Moville national school, Donegal, on urgent list, in need of repairs etc, 

1925-26 (s) 

14028/26 Boat strand harbour, Tramore, inspections (s) 

OPW5 – 14051/26 – 14109/26 

*** 

14051/26 Ballymoghany garda station, Sligo, permanent works file (p) (exct) (ms) 

14077/26 letting of residence, ‘Cuilin’, Albert Agricultural College (s) 

14088/26 Sigerson Memorial, contract file (exct plans etc) (ms) 

14089/26 Board of Works estimates, discussion, 1925-26 (ms) 

14091/26 OPW estimates and discussion, 1926-27 (ms) 

14102/26 Ballyshannon convent national school, 1890-1920s (lots plans) (ml) 

OPW5 – 14171/26 – 14339/26 

14171/26 Phoenix Park – People’s Gardens & Royal Infirmary, mediating access 

door, 1890s-1920s (m) 

14174/26 Boyle post office, class 1, works and various repairs, 1910-25 (plans, 

photos) (m) 

14259/26 Kill garda station, Kildare, lease file (s) 

14274/26 Stephen’s Green, seating accommodation, ground plan (s) 

14277/26 Food Control Offices, Kildare St, Molesworth St, Kilworth House, 

Molesworth Hall (lots plans) (ml) 

14295/26 Youghal Customs & Excise, Strand St, substantial works and repairs (m) 

OPW5 – 14344/26 – 14413/26 

**** 

14344/26 heating in life classes in Metropolitan School of Art (vs) 

14352/26 Berehaven calibrating range, beacon (s) 

14359/26 ‘Sutton’ award cases, officers on military service, 1914-18 (m) 

14362/26 Gaeltacht Commission, 4 Harcourt St (s) 

14365/26 Clodiagh DD, Tipperary (m) 

14411/26 gas consumption (s) 

14413/26 Census Office (rear of Charlemont House), alterations, works, 1916-26 

(lots plans) (ml) 

OPW6 – 14441/26 – 14546/26 

234

** 

14441/26 Union Quay garda station, Cork, works and temporary premises file (vg) 

(m) 

14497/26 silver dessert spoons ordered for army officers mess (s) 

14508/26 Insurance of boilers, plant etc, Agricultural Stations (pt 2) (ml) 

14514/26 Howth Harbour, letting of store to John Argus (s) 

14546/26 Killaloe garda station, Co Clare, works file (vg) (m) 

OPW5 – 14551/26 – 14586/26 

14551/26 articles placed in charge of Board of Works by C.I.D. (typewriter, 

duplicator) (s) 

14558/26 Griffith Barracks, Capt Dallaghan’s quarters, furnishing (s) 

14560/26 Mountjoy Female Prison, electric lighting (s) 

14565/26 Athenry Abbey, note (vs) 

14584/26 Youghal coastguard station, tenancies (ml) 

14586/26 Boyne Drainage Board, restoration by OPW, 1914-25 (qg) (ml) 

OPW5 – 14606/26 – 14717/26 

******** 

14640/26 Skerries garda station, Dublin, ‘main’ file (bits) (m) 

14650/26 Ferbane garda station, Offaly, alterations, temporary premises (m) 

14767/26 DATI, corrugated steel huts, formerly Inland Revenue (specs, plans) (ms) 

14717/26 establishment: Curragh Camp OPW staff (s) 

OPW5 – 15115/26 – 15219/26 

******** 

15128/26 assistance for assistant architects, temporary clerk of works (ml) 

15148/26 Ballinlough garda station, Roscommon, restoration works (plans, specs) 

(qg) (m) 

15219/26 Dunlavin garda station, Wicklow, works & lease file (qg) (ml) 

OPW5 – 15238/26 – 15362/26 

***** 

15260/26 Rineen Pier, Kerry (p) (vs) 

15291/26 Skerries coast life saving station (nice design logo) (vs) 

15301/26 Dungeel national school, Kerry, 1907-25 (p) (s) 

15318/26 Stephen’s Green, renewal of gold lettering on Memorial Arch (except 

soffit of arch) (vs) 

235

15332/26 Moy Drainage Board, engineering report by Board of Works (bits) (m) 

15357/26 Phoenix Park – external painting works (s) 

15362/26 Ballybay Drainage District (m) 

OPW5 – 14726/26 – 14827/26 

**, 1AD 

14734/26 establishment: Volunteer Reserve (interesting) (s) 

14754/26 order for oak office tables, Dublin cabinet maker (s) 

14761/26 resignation of carpenter, Dundrum Asylum, William Smith (s) 

14768/26 Mullingar garda station, Westmeath, urgent reconstruction file (m) 

14824/26 St Columba’s, Iona Road, national school, mostly 1925-26 (m) 

14827/26 accident to T Reidy, drainage labourer, Doohyle DD (vs) 

OPW5 – 14857/26 – 15090/26 

*****, 1AD. 

14857/26 Sailors & Soldiers Cottages, Portumna district (plans etc) (ml) 

14917/26 Custom House, Dublin, reconstruction of timber windows (plans) (s) 

14923/26 Stephen’s Green, order for 40 tons limestone chippings, 10 tons quartzite 

(vs) 

14953/26 Belhavel to Lough Allen Drainage District, engineer’s reports (s) 

14967/26 Dublin Castle garda barracks, extension of electric lighting (s) 

14970/26 Stephen’s Green, order for lawnmower and verge cutting machine (vs) 

15010/26 Coulalahee Harbour, improved land (good letter) (s) 

15060/26 Garda Siochana, provision of boathouse accommodation, list of locations 

etc (s) 

15053/26 Ballina garda station, restoration file (pt 1) (p) (s) 

15090/26 Castlefin garda station, lease and works file (ms) 

OPW5 – 15373/26 – 15635/26 

********* 

15373/26 Phoenix Park, proposed letting of state lodges and major residences, 

occupation of Under-Secretary’s Lodge by General McMahon (m) 

15408/26 Kildare rifle range lands (vs) 

15558/26 Burtonport Harbour improvements, 1924-26 (S.O. file) (m) 

15582/26 Gorey garda station, Wexford, works and lease file (m) 

15589/26 Col Guilfoyle’s quarters, Portobello Barracks, furnishing (s) 

15635/26 Ballylooby garda station, Tipperary, purchase file (m) 

236

OPW5 – 15636/26 – 15676/26 

15636/26 Birdhill garda station, Tipperary, purchase file (s) 

15665/26 Civic Guard Depot, alteration to riding school (lots plans etc) (ml) 

15666/26 Monasterevan garda station, Kildare, purchase file (good early bits) (p) 

(vl) 

15676/26 Stephen’s Green, new hand roller (vs) 

OPW5 – 15685/26 – 15996/26 

**************, 2AD, Lift Inspection Reports. 

15685/26 Revenue Department, Dublin Castle, loss of carpet (s) 

15690/26 order of steel for Four Courts works (vs) 

15777/26 Post and Telegraph Training College, accountant’s office, heating (s) 

15791/26 Dublin Castle store, motor tender (s) 

15793/26 Ballinacurry national school, Galway, improvements, 1920s (s) 

15806/26 Milltown garda station, Galway, lease file (s) 

15834/26 Berehaven calibrating station (s) 

15905/26 Tipperary training centre, acquisition of garden (s) 

15933/26 Berehaven calibrating range, observation hut (s) 

15993/26 Arbour Hill Military Barracks, Remount Depot, letting of married quarters 

(m) 

OPW5 – 16000/26 – 16274/26 

*********** 

16011/26 Athlone War Pensions sub-committee office (m) 

16032/26 Clonark garda station, Roscommon (conveyance file) (s) 

16057/26 Waterford Portal Inspection hut, 1880-1925 (p) (ml) 

16095/26 Foxrock telephone exchange, acquisition of site (s) 

16163/26 Arklow Post Office, lease file (s) 

16135/26 Portobello Military Barracks, occupation of quarters by civilians (s) 

16191/26 little boy rescued from pond in St Stephen’s Green (vs) 

16228/26 Dept of Agriculture, water supply to Stormanstown Farm, Glasnevin (s) 

16270/26 Sligo Model School, playground 1918-24 (lots plans) (m) 

16274/26 13 & 14 Earlsfort Terrace, proposed acquisition for use as practicing 

school in connection with UCD (ie demonstration school) (gd plans) (s) 

OPW5 – 16300/26 – 16455/26 

*********** 

16300/26 New Inn garda station, temporary premises file (s) 

16325/26 Derryhassen national school, Donegal, 1899-1925 (plans, specs) (ml) 

237

16327/26 St Kevin’s national school, Grantham St, Dublin, 1896-1901, 1926 (ml) 

16366/26 Phoenix Park, damage by motor car (s) 

16395/26 employment letter (vs) 

16438/26 coast erosion, proposal to make loans to local authorities for various 

works, general correspondence (s) 

16452/26 smoky chimneys, Dublin Castle, rooms 2 & 17, Block 9, Upper Castle 

Yard (qg) (vs) 

16455/26 Ballyhean garda station, Mayo, temporary premises file (s) 

OPW5 – 16482/26 – 16757/26 

********** 

16482/26 Awbeg River (Buttevant area), Cork, proposed drainage scheme, several 

reports etc (very interesting material) (m) 

16512/26 Loughrea garda station, Galway (vol 2), main file, works, alterations, 

assessments, temporary premises (qg) (ml) 

16596/26 Donegal garda station, Donegal, lease file (s) 

16612/26 GPO Henry St, payments to quantity surveyor etc (vs) 

16669/26 new garda stations, forms for reporting on sites (s) 

16757/26 Ballyfeard garda station, Cork, purchase file (s) 

OPW5 – 16828/26 – 16996/26 

******* 

7 boathouse accommodation inspection files 

16828/26 Ordnance Survey Office, Phoenix Park, strengthening floor in printing 

rooms (p) (s) 

16830/26 National Museum, vacuum cleaning and other works (s) 

16855/26 Smear garda station, Longford, purchase file (ms) 

16909/26 Albert Agricultural College, electric lighting, plant armature (s) 

16911/26 Shanagolden garda station, Limerick, main file (mostly leases) (ml) 

16952/26 sale of hut, Newbridge Camp (s) 

16957/26 War Pensions Office Committee, 90 Clanbrassil St, Dundalk (s) 

16983/26 River Owenmore drainage, report of land valuer (s) 

OPW5 – 16261/26 – 16827/26 

* 

16761/26 Rathvilly garda station, Carlow, main file (vg) (m) 

16764/26 Piltown garda station, Kilkenny, purchase file (s) 

16788/26 proposed installation of fuel economizer (furnace) for National Museum 

(good ads) (m) 

16806/26 Lough Mask and River Robe DD (several good reports) (ml) 

238

16809/26 River Suck, redemption of drainage charges (vs) 

16827/26 Irish National Museum, repairs to ‘Irish gold ornament room’ (vs) 

OPW5 – 17017/26 – 17346/26 

*****************, 1AD. 

17017/26 Listowel garda station, Kerry, temporary premises file (incl works) (m) 

17031/26 Law Courts, Dublin Castle, works and alterations (vg) (s) 

17038/26 Costello Bay, Mayo, coast life saving station, rebuilding of coastguard 

rocket-house (s) 

17149/26 Woodlawn national school-teacher’s residence, 1886-92 (s) 

17158/26 heating the Office of Public Works 50 St Stephen’s Green, furnace & 

boilers etc (qg) (s) 

17220/26 sanitary provisions in garda barracks (vs) 

17235/26 furniture and articles for Irish Land Commission (s) 

17314/26 Killybegs coastguard station, Donegal, tenancies (ml) 

17346/26 Pol Ua Fearghail, appointed clerk to Brussels Office, Dept of External 

Affairs (vs) 

OPW5 – 17348/26 – 17599/26 

*************, 1AD 

17492/26 disposal of surplus army sheets (s) 

17521/26 orders for enamel ware (s) 

17526/26 Bridgend Customs Hut, additional accommodation (vs) 

17536/26 repairs to Soldiers & Sailors cottages, Charleville scheme (s) 

17566/26 Galbally garda station, temporary premises file (vs) 

17593/26 Clonmacnoise churches etc, 1918-26 (nice sketches), (ms) 

17595/26 drainage ganger, case of John Shiel (Board of Works chose not to reemploy 

him) (s) 

17596/26 Military new works, progress reports, 1926-27 (vg) (s) 

17598/26 Phoenix Park – Edward Courtenay deceased (s) 

17599/26 Andrew Anderson of Phoenix Park, gratuity (vs) 

OPW5 – 17619/26 – 17806/26 

******* 

17621/26 Aghakeena national school, Cork, repairs 1920s (s) 

17628/26 brushes and brooms, for Trade Board offices (s) 

17687/26 Tarmon national school residence, Roscommon, mostly 1904-0 (s) 

17762/26 Thomastown national school-teacher’s residence, c.1900 (ms) 

17768/26 Berehaven calibrating range, Cork, surrender of lands, Whiddy Island 

beacons (s) 

239

17805/26 Northern boundary Customs Huts, general requirements, incl furnishing 

(s) 

17806/26 leave arrangements for various officers in OPW, general correspondence, 

1900-26 (vg) (m) 

OPW5 – 17807/26 – 17935/26 

1AD 

17807/26 Dunmore East harbour, appointment of harbour masters, 1920-26 (vg) (m) 

17809/26 Irish Land Commission, 24, 25, 26 Upper Merrion St, purchase of fee 

simple (bits) (ml) 

17856/26 Rinn and Black River DD, Leitrim & Longford, 1918-26 (good reports) 

(m) 

17896/26 Cork Model School, reconstruction of playsheds 

17909/26 Kilbeggan DD, Westmeath & Kings County, apportionment file, 1911-26 

(ml) 

17935/26 Mullingar garda station, Westmeath, main file (s) 

OPW5 – 17959/26 – 18096/26 

*****, several lift inspection reports 

17975/26 Ship St & Stephen St, improvement to surroundings of government 

buildings, pavement lights etc (s) 

17980/26 Albert Agricultural College, Glasnevin, completion of 2 cattle feeding 

boxes (4 plans) (s) 

18040/26 Lettermore garda station, Galway, temporary premises and purchase file 

(m) 

18048/26 Millstreet ex-RIC barracks, Cork, letting (ml) 

18090/26 Lettermore knitting centre, urgent works file (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 18100/26 – 18173/26 

**** 

18100/26 Newmarket girl’s national school, 1913-28 (new one, half FS) (ml) 

18107/26 Kill DD, Cavan, 1916-26 (s) 

18140/26 Campile garda station, Wexford, purchase file (s) 

18151/26 Baldonnell officer’s mess, supplies, orders to Board of Works (nice ads) 

(s) 

18155/26 GPO Dublin, 25 Henry St, Tylers’ shop fittings, p) (vs) 

18158/26 23, 24, 26, Parnell Square, works in tax offices (several plans) (m) 

18173/26 Colaiste Ide, Burnham House, Dingle, Preparatory College, contracts for 

heating, lighting, plumbing, sanitary fittings (ms) 

240

OPW5 – 18201/26 – 18360/26 

******** 

18266/26 Kilmacud School of Domestic Economy, St Kevins Park, water supply (s) 

18287/26 Northern Boundary Customs huts, Lifford, post no 39, site for new hut (s) 

18302/26 Caherconlish garda station, Limerick (vol 1), lease file (p) (ml) 

18309/26 Civic Guard Depot, Phoenix Park, occupation of quarters by civilians (s) 

18321/26 Foxford garda station, Mayo, temporary premises file (ms) 

18324/26 Botanic Gardens, supply of delph (s) 

18360/26 Ballyconnell House, plumbing contract (s) 

OPW5 – 18412/26 – 18648/26 

************* 

18462/26 loan to Kildare County Council, new burial ground, Abbey (s) 

18464/26 Phoenix Park – motor car accidents (s) 

18498/26 Cloverfield national school, Limerick, 1902-26 (ml) 

18519/26 state symbols for Garda barracks (vs) 

18540/26 Custom House, Dublin and Custom House docks, acquisition of 

reversionary interest (lots on works also) (good plans) (m) 

18552/26 GPO Dublin and quantity surveyor for Block C (Patterson & Kempster) 

(vs) 

18555/26 Raheen-a-Cluig Church, Bray Head, vesting proposal (agreed), (photos & 

sketches) (s) 

18578/26 Dingle beehive structures – inspection reports (m) 

18598/26 Collins Barracks, Cork, proposed Command Stores (3 plans) (vs) 

18625/26 Collins Barracks, Cork, Military Hospital, electric lighting (ms) 

18642/26 James Farrelly, ganger on Ardee Drainage, personnel file (s) 

OPW5 – 18850/26 – 18895/26 

***** 

18850/26 restoration of naval dwellings, Queenstown Naval Divison Co. Ltd, loan 

under Working Class Housing Acts (lovely plan) (exct) (l) 

18552/26 15 Upper Fitzwilliam St, lease of stables at rere of building (s) 

18884/26 Stradone garda station, Cavan, temporary premises file (s) 

18887/26 Killarney ex-RIC barracks, lease file (much correspondence from 1860s) 

(s) 

OPW5 – 18909/26 – 19034/26 

*****, 1AD. 

241

18909/26 Arklow Harbour dredging (ml) 

18967/26 Board of Works, Cork District general contracts (bit) (ml) 

19029/26 Portmagee garda station, Kerry, purchase file (ml) 

19034/26 Athy garda station, Kildare, temporary premises file (ok) (ml) 

OPW5 – 18660/26 – 18790/26 

***** 

18660/26 Balla DD, 1920-26 (m) 

18673/26 Foynes girl’s national school, Limerick (vs) 

18691/26 Kill garda station, Kildare, lease file (ml) 

18763/26 Berehaven calibrating range, beacon no.10 (s) 

18768/26 Largy national school, Monaghan, 1888-1926 (ml) 

OPW5 – 18800/26 – 18846/26 

* 

18800/26 order of oak side-boards (s) 

18810/26 surplus cookery utensils, Dept of Education (s) 

18829/26 Nobber garda station, Meath, lease file (s) 

18834/26 Knocknagoshel garda station, Kerry, purchase file (ml) 

18846/26 Carlingford coastguard station, letting of tenancies (m) 

OPW5 – 19050/26 – 19192/26 

******* 

19054/26 temporary exchange of Clerks of Works, Mayo & Phoenix Park (s) 

19094/26 loan £12080 to Cavan Town Commissioners, acquisition of markets, 

1898- (s) 

19131/26 malicious damage to Kilkenny Post Office (s) 

19141/26 periodical contracts for office furniture, memos and correspondence (some 

good bits) (m) 

19156/26 J.J. Murphy, temporary Clerk of Works/Land Inspector, personnel file 

(ms) 

19175/26 passes for Customs Huts, Louth & Monaghan, 1926 

19180/26 Ballyheigue boatslip, repairs (s) 

19191/26 Shannon Navigation, proposed pier at Colum, Newtowncashel (s) 

19192/26 GPO Dublin, Henry St façade, lease of shops, works (plans) (ml) 

OPW5 – 19194/26 – 19255/26 

** 

242

19200/26 Dublin Custom House, central heating contract (ms) 

19207/26 Inagh ex-RIC barracks, Clare, rent file (s) 

19235/26 Dublin Custom House, partitions (s) 

19240/26 Phoenix Park, police barracks (s) 

19252/26 Moylough national school, Sligo, enlargement etc, 1890-1920s (ml) 

19255/26 Kingstown Harbour, sheeting of Carlisle Pier, 1898-1926 (ml) 

OPW5 – 19257/26 – 19425/26 

****** 

19257/26 applications for employment as junior clerk, High Court offices (s) 

19258/26 Mr Tuite, architectural assistant (s) 

19266/26 British Local Loans Fund, annual returns (s) 

19267/26 Hospital garda station, Limerick, main file, reconstruction etc (plans) (s) 

19268/26 Wolfhill Collieries Ltd, fuel and light (arbitration) (ms) 

19273/26 Eyrecourt garda station, Galway, general file (ok) (s) 

19292/26 36 Lwr Leeson St, Charitable Donations Office, painting, outbreak of fire 

(s) 

19367/26 Stephen’s Green, damage to lock of lavatory (vs) 

19326/26 wireless demonstration on East Pier, Kingstown Harbour (vs) 

19365/26 Bray garda station, Wicklow, works file, pt 1 (sev plans) (ms) 

19400/26 Dept of President, construction and furnishing of waiting room (s) 

OPW5 – 19441/26 – 19563/26 

****** 

19441/26 arterial drainage, appointment of junior engineers and draughtsmen (ml) 

19448/26 presses for Post & Telegraphs accounts branch, GPO Dublin (nice plans) 

(s) 

19477/26 RIC Depot, alterations to canteen, 1894-1926 (p) (s) 

19491/26 Arigna coal supplies, report to President, June 1926 (m) 

19562/26 Fort Lodge, Phoenix Park, works of enlargement (s) 

19563/26 Aonach Tailteann, 6 Harcourt St, provision of office (s) 

OPW5 – 19564/26 – 19696/26 

******* 

19566/26 Coast life saving station (Dept of Industry and Commerce), supply of Ecla 

Lamps (s) 

19582/26 Tuam town commissioners, Working Class Housing Loan, £6000, issue of 

right to sell buildings (s) 

19589/26 Barrow Drainage, Athy UDC, resolution respecting sewage (vs) 

19604/26 order supplies of furniture locks (s) 

243

19636/26 Elphin DD, OPW restoration of drainage works, 1925-26 (vg) (m) 

19650/26 National Library extension, installation of electric lighting (exct plans) (s) 

19669/26 College St DMP barracks, internal and external painting, contract with 

Dockrells (s) 

19681/26 Phoenix Park – use of sports grounds, Catholic Boys Brigade (vs) 

19683/26 Phoenix Park – condition of entrance to Gaelic football pavilion (vs) 

19684/26 Phoenix Park – sale of palms from Vice Regal Lodge (vs) 

19685/26 impertinence of ship captain to Howth harbour-master (vs) 

19696/26 properties held from Quit Rent Office, routine rent file (s) 

OPW5 – 19706/26 – 19834/26 

****** 

19706/26 Kilcummin garda station, Galway, disposal file (s) 

19712/26 Ballywilliam garda station, Wexford, temporary premises file (s) 

19733/26 minor works at Tipperary training centre (vs) 

19735/26 Ross Abbey, Galway, works etc, 1920s (m) 

19743/26 River Corr DD, general correspondence, (gd engineer’s report) (bits) (m) 

19799/26 Gormanstown Camp, water supply, way-leaves (Meath, Board of Health) 

(s) 

19821/26 Youghal coastguard station, tenancies (ms) 

19831/26 Burnham House, Preparatory College, structural alterations etc 

(contractual) (s) 

OPW5 – 19836/26 – 19997/26 

** 

19836/26 Barrow Drainage, modifications to plans of Meyer Peter (m) 

19841/26 stenographers for courts of justice, proposed examination (vs) 

19927/26 Lixnaw national school, Kerry, residence, 1895-1925 (ms) 

19928/26 Barrow Drainage, wages rate (vs) 

19952/26 Mount Bolus garda station, Offaly, temporary premises & hut (ms) 

19957/26 Garda Siochana, supply of ranges, grates, sanitary fittings (useful) (m) 

19958/26 Malahide garda station, Dublin, purchase file (m) 

19997/26 coast lights, steel oil casks for Mulroy Lights, Crannog Point, Feighan 

Hill, Nandy Island, Dundowan Rock (s) 

OPW5 – 20007/26 – 20218/26 

***** 

20007/26 St Enda’s national school, Blasket Island, Kerry, repairs, 1915-24 (m) 

20019/26 election equipment, general file (lots bits) (ml) 

20054/26 Dublin GPO, agreement with shop in respect of paving lights (s) 

244

20062/26 Berehaven – administration of property, golf course (s) 

20184/26 Shannon Navigation, letting of Dead Man’s Island (Connoy’s) (ms) 

20218/26 Duleek garda station, Meath, purchase file, works file, 1925 (m) 

OPW5 – 20227/26 – 20399/26 

*******, 1 lift report. 

20227/26 45 Kildare St, accommodation for Irish Law Society (James Beckett 

letterhead) (bits) (s) 

? upkeep of gardens and buildings of Royal Hospital Kilmainham (lots bits) 

(m) 

20242/26 Phoenix Park – occupied lodges, gate-keepers, constables (booklet of 

regulations)(p.g.) (m) 

20273/26 Arterial Drainage Act, 1925, loans to County Councils (reasons) (s) 

20274/26 assistant to carpenters-in-charge, Sylvester Atkinson, personnel file (s) 

20359/26 Ballinrobe garda station, Mayo, temporary premises file (m) 

20396/26 Dublin Castle stores, repairs etc to 50 office chairs (s) 

20399/26 Colaiste Brighde, Ballyconnell House, supplies (s) 

OPW5 – 20405/26 – 20555/26 

********, 1AD 

20405/26 Shannon Navigation, proposed letting to Grand Canal Company at Roosky 

(m) 

20494/26 Ballinea national school residence, Mullingar, loan paid off, 1880-1925 

(m) 

20515/26 Dublin GPO, reconstruction (mostly receipts), sandstone orders (tenders, 

specs, receipts) (bits) (m) 

20517/26 Albert Agricultural College, Gormanstown, minor works, barn (s) 

20521/26 Athenry Agricultural Station, new cart shed, poultry pens (specs) (vs) 

20548/26 Maynooth garda station, Kildare, lease file (s) 

20555/26 Gormanstown Camp, YMCA hut, furniture (former RIC hut) (bits) (ml) 

OPW5 – 20588/26 – 20806/26 

***********, 1AD. 

20558/26 Blackrock Hospital, Ministry of Pensions, insurance of boilers (m) 

20591/26 Dublin Mercantile Marine Office, electricity lighting (& spec for 

Governor-General’s residence) (s) 

20595/26 Dublin: Four Courts, Custom House, supply and delivery of 11 pavement 

‘lights’ (ie grilles) (plans) (s) 

20598/26 Ordnance Survey Phoenix Park, supply of map drawer cabinet (p) (s) 

20629/26 annual estimates, minor balances of expenditure (s) 

245

20650/26 Annascaul garda station, Kerry, property purchase (s) 

20679/26 Dublin Custom House, new main drainage (p) (s) 

20746/26 Ballyhaise Agricultural School, supplies (s) 

20752/26 Royal Hibernian School, furnishing of Col O’Connor’s quarters (listed 

etc) (s) 

20805/26 Morris Castle coast life saving station (vs) 

OPW5 – 20820/26 – 21062/26 

*****************, 1AD. 

20870/26 Phoenix Park – unauthorized cutting of timber for fuel (s) 

20891/26 Barrow Drainage, valuation and works (m) 

20928/26 gift of statuary to OPW and issue of how it should be used (vs) 

20935/26 Wicklow coast life saving station, minor works (s) 

20953/26 Garda Siochana, supply of electric torches (s) 

20974/26 Dublin Custom House, heating contract (specs, plans) (wk) (ms) 

20980/26 supplies of toiletries & earthenware (s) 

21009/26 Cappa (Kilrush), coastguard station, Co Clare, tenancies (m) 

21035/26 Donegal post office, supplies etc (s) 

21041/26 National Health Insurance Commissioners, accommodation for Cork 

inspections, lease and alterations (m) 

21062/26 Malinmore (Glen Bay), War Signal Station, compensation file, disposal 

(p) (m) 

OPW5 – 21071/26 – 21222/26 

***** 

21071/26 Raghley coastguard station, Sligo malicious destruction file (s) 

21077/26 removal of barricade, College of Science (vs) 

21080/26 College of Science, barricade in basement (vs) 

21104/26 West Dublin Model School, repairs etc, 1920s (m) 

21111/26 Ballyvogue national teacher’s residence, Cork, 1895-1925 (p) (ms) 

21133/26 Dungarvan war pensions office, Waterford rent & alterations (m) 

21182/26 Shannon Scheme office, 33 Upper Merrion St, order of drawing tables (p) 

(s) 

21216/26 coastal marine stores, list of articles (s) 

21222/26 Dromiskin proposed national school, Louth, ‘Ashlin & Coleman’ (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 21223/26 – 21295/26 

***** 

21223/26 Ballinalee national school, Longford, 1909-26 (ml) 

21229/26 Direendarragh national school, Longford, 1913-25 (ml) 

246

21234/26 Ballycotton national school, Clare (s) 

21274/26 Vice-Regal Lodge, inventory of pictures in residence, 1904-26 (listing & 

discussion of provenance etc) (brilliant) (m) 

OPW5 – 21334/26 – 21476/26 

****** 

21334/26 Barrackhill national school-teacher’s residence, 1891-1926 (s) 

21358/26 Four Courts, Dublin, reconstruction file no.2 (4 plans) (exct) (m) 

20410/26 Haulbowline, injury to M. Abbott (vs) 

21411/26 Cork: accommodation for stuff of sectional engineer (post office), 55 Gd 

Parade (p) (s) 

21416/26 Dail Eireann Loans and Funds Act, 1921, inventories of furniture in 

legations etc (s) 

21429/26 Merrion St Government Offices, night heating (vs) 

21476/26 Cashen River coastguard station, compensation files etc (ml) 

OPW5 – 21495/26 – 21628/26 

****** 

21495/26 Lisheen national school, Clare, 1911-26 (m) 

21537/26 Ballylooby garda station, Tipperary, building file vol 1 (m) 

21552/26 Ministry of Labour, Listowel branch employment office, lease and works 

(ms) 

21602/26 repairs to Middle Abbey St Post Office (s) 

21621/26 Cloughduv national school, Cork (p) (ms) 

21624/26 Cushenstown national school, Meath, repairs (s) 

21628/26 Cloonfour national school, Roscommon, 1908-25 (m) 

OPW5 – 21686/26 – 21765/26 

*** 

21688/26 contractors’ applications for plans (lots letterheads), various works (m) 

21700/26 Curraunboy DD, Mayo (s) 

21701/26 Tralee & Fenit pier and harbour, financial condition, 1917-25 (ms) 

21707/26 Barrow Drainage Act, foundation of piers of acquaduct in Mountmellick 

(vs) 

21722/26 Land Improvement – JP Greene, temporary inspector (ms) 

21727/26 Ballyadams garda station, Athy, former hut post (ms) 

21728/26 Moore’s Hotel, Cork, garda station, claim for disturbances by prisoners, 

temporary premises (s) 

21730/26 Dundrum garda station, barrack & cthouse, installation of gas lighting 

(lovely plans) (s) 

247

21765/26 Ordnance Survey Office, reproduction of plans for OPW works (vs) 

OPW5 – 21771/26 – 21826/26 

* 

21771/26 Ministry of Labour, training centre, Tipperary Hostel no 2, ‘for training of 

disabled soldiers’, 1919-26 (bits) (ml) 

21786/26 Glenfarne garda station, Leitrim, purchase file (good bits) (ms) 

21823/26 Bann and Lough Neagh drainage, official reports (g) (ms) 

21824/26 border customs huts, Sligo area (incl Blacklion), supplies (vs) 

21826/26 Arthurstown coastguard station, Wexford, tenancies (m) 

OPW5 – 21831/26 – 22405/26 

************ 

21831/26 Glin national school, 1878-1925 (lots plans etc) (ml) 

21924/26 Ballyconnell House, order of wardrobes and washstands (s) 

21952/26 Oriel House, workshop foreman, specs for easy chairs etc (p) (s) 

21975/26 Youghal garda station, boathouse accommodation (s) 

22006/26 Cork Ministry of Pensions, rent and works (p) (ms) 

22023/26 Blacksod Point signal station, rent (s) 

22045/26 Moyour DD, Mayo (nice letter on old Rosehill Bridge, Sept 1925) (m) 

OPW5 – 22079/26 – 22242/26 

*****, 1AD 

22119/26 Westport Harbour, reclamation of slob land (vs) 

22142/26 find of three old printing blocks, found in Board of Works workshops, 26 

Church St, during demolition, given to museum (vs) 

22145/26 Waterford Probate Registry, fuel and light (m) 

22181/26 general supplies for Dublin Castle stores (s) 

22186/26 general supplies for Dublin Castle stores (s) 

22188/26 order of Windsor Chairs etc for stores (p) (s) 

22206/26 Cork Employment Exchange, accommodation in Model School (sketches) 

(m) 

22239/26 provision of boats, stocking garda boathouses – general (ms) 

22242/26 establishment: records of accounts staff, 1921-26 (ms) 

plan of Moore’s Hotel 

OPW5 – 22247/26 – 22401/26 

***** 

248

22247/26 Galtee More Club, Tipperary, case of commandeered premises (g) (m) 

22271/26 notice plates for branch employment offices (bits) (m) 

22273/26 ancient monuments in County Wexford (vs) 

22287/26 Fletcherstown national school (s) 

22289/26 St Andrews national school, Dublin (Pearse St) (s) 

22312/26 Dublin GPO, supply of steel work, Block B (vs) 

22384/26 equestrian portrait of Frederick Duke of York (s) 

22393/26 Shannon Harbour garda station, Offaly, lease (m) 

22401/26 Bansha garda station, Offaly, temporary premises (commandeered 

manager’s house) (ms) 

OPW5 – 22419/26 – 22646/26 

*********** 

22240/26 Naas Military garrison, gas (s) 

22447/26 Cobh garda station, Cork, reconstruction file (ms) 

22490/26 Dublin GPO arcade, relief works by direct labour (p) (s) 

22508/26 Clonmel Military Barracks, Tipperary, disposal (ms) 

22513/26 Waterford Inspector of Taxes, no 2 district, rent and fittings file (ms) 

22544/26 Rathcormac garda station, Cork, temporary premises file (s) 

22620/26 Portobello post office, installation of shutters (s) 

22646/26 Board of Works advertisements, complaints re different charges by 

newspapers (bits) (ms) 

OPW5 – 22665/26 – 22796/26 

**** 

22665/26 Cong garda station, Mayo, restoration file (p) (ml) 

22677/26 military coal reserve (re UK strikes etc) (m) 

22684/26 Four Courts, find of Elizabethan silver coin (1564) (vs) 

22708/26 Tynagh garda station, Galway, purchase file (s) 

22714/26 Inchmore Island national school, building and finishing school (FS) (p) 

(ms) 

OPW5 – 22802/26 – 22975/26 

******** 

22802/26 Dun Laoighaire coastguard depot, rent file (s) 

22862/26 Lackeen Point coastguard station, Kerry, tenancies (ms) 

22894/26 Letterkenny no.2 garda station, explosives magazine (p) (ms) 

22933/26 Haulbowline floating plant, sale of trawlers (m) 

22947/26 St Joseph’s convent national school, Tipperary (s) 

22975/26 Maynooth garda station, Kildare, works file no. 1 (p) (ms) 

249

(vol 2 = 12597/28) 

OPW5 – 22998/26 – 23090/26 

******** 

22998/26 Barracks services, requisitions, 1925-26, bulk supplies for general military 

needs (mostly receipts) (ml) 

23004/26 Burnham House preparatory college, supplies (s) 

23009/26 employment on Barrow drainage, John May, carter, personnel file (vs) 

23029/26 Suir drainage problems (reports etc) (bits) (m) 

23052/26 Shillelagh garda station, Wicklow, vol 1, works and lease (m) 

23059/26 21 Upper Merrion St, change of office, 23-26 Upper Merrion St, Land 

Commission (p) (ms) 

23090/26 mincing machine, army supplies (ms) 

OPW5 – 23091/26 – 23304/26 

********* 

23148/26 Maryborough National Health Insurance Offices, Port Laoise 

accommodation (s) 

23149/26 proposed recreation grounds, Royal Canal, encroachments by Mountjoy 

Prison (p) (s) 

23186/26 Killycarnon national school-teacher’s residence, Monaghan, 1893-1925 

(BOW plans) (m) 

23218/26 reconstruction award, Rossmore, Co Tipperary (s) 

23224/26 Land Act 1923 and Land Bill 1927 (OPW commentary) (bits) (m) 

23230/26 accident to A. Bacon, bricklayer in Garda Siochana Depot (vs) 

23235/26 Property Compensation claim, estimates and analysis (ms) 

23236/26 National Museum, conversazione on 11 th Feb 1925, reception for United 

States post-graduate visitors (ms) 

23280/26 cessation of post of lamplighter in Phoenix Park, Flanagan (s) 

23289/26 Curragh Camp national school, furniture supplies (s) 

23304/26 proposed Cush arterial drainage scheme (ms) 

OPW5 – 23316/26 – 23468/26 

******* 

23323/26 damage incurred to garda barracks as a result of raids by IRA (vs) 

23324/26 Tynagh garda station, temporary premises (s) 

23325/26 Tulla garda station, Clare, lease file (m) 

23361/26 Clontarf coastguard station, rent file (plans) (m) 

23365/26 Civil Service Commissioners, examination hall, 5 Ely Place (vs) 

23399/26 contracts for locks/locksmith (lovely letterheads) (s) 

250

23421/26 Smear garda station, Longford, temporary premises file (s) 

23425/26 Headford garda station, Kerry, purchase file (m) 

23431/26 Kingscourt garda station, Cavan, permananent premises file (ms) 

OPW5 – 23483/26 – 23646/26 

*****, 1AD. 

23483/26 Government buildings, flying of flags etc, Aonach Tailteann etc (ml) 

23492/26 Land Commission office, Tuam, rent, alterations (m) 

23499/26 Dublin Custom House, electric wiring, Blocks A & H (p) (s) 

23521/26 Burncourt national school, Tipperary (s) 

23575/26 establishment: appointment of clerical officers (s) 

23609/26 Dept of External Affairs, armchairs and carpets for Washington Legation 

(s) 

23618/26 Coast life saving stations, supply of ropes (s) 

23646/26 Northern Boundary customs huts, windows with iron bars (two drawings 

of huts) (s) 

OPW5 – 12/27 – 113/27 

*** 

12/27 Garda Siochana general, cleaning sanitary conveniences, dustbins, 

limewashing, other services (m) 

44/27 travelling expenses, representations from OPW professional services (vs) 

57/27 Dublin Port & Docks (Bridge) Bill, comments of OPW (s) 

58/27 College of Science, partition marking off area of Seed Testing Dept etc, 

DATI (p) (s) 

95/27 Post Office Engineering Headquarters, Leitrim House, Dublin Castle 

annexe (lots plans) (ml) 

113/27 Galbally garda station, Limerick, purchase file (ml) 

OPW5 – 121/27 – 298/27 

*********** 

127/27 military barracks, agreement for supply of gas, water, electricity etc (s) 

171/27 Dublin Custom House, vacuum cleaning plant (s) 

211/27 Governor-General’s residence, erection of boundary wall, conversion of 

laundry to garda barracks (s) 

221/27 Carrick-on-Suir garda station, Tipperary, ex-RIC barracks, reconstruction 

file (pt 1) (m) 

224/27 Newtownforbes garda station, Longford, temporary premises file (s) 

225/27 Glencolumbcille garda station, Donegal, temporary premises file (s) 

253/27 Lyracrompane national school, Kerry, extension (FS) (ms) 

251

OPW5 – 302/27 – 360/27 

* 

312/27 Glandore national school, Cork, 1896-1925 (ml) 

318/27 Collins Barracks, Cork, reconstruction of military hospital, renovation and 

modern hospital (vg) (ml) 

323/27 architectural staff, assistant architect, Mayo district (vs) 

334/27 Dun Laoighaire, buoy struck by SS Voglas (vs) 

345/27 W.G. Bateman, clerical assistant, Dublin Castle (vs) 

347/27 annual estimates, 1927-28, arterial drainage and free grants (s) 

360/27 Ring garda station, Waterford, purchase file (s) 

OPW5 – 362/27 – 514/27 

* 

362/27 Elphin garda station, Roscommon, temporary quarters file (m) 

373/27 Tribunal of Prices, 5 Ely Place, fuel and light (s) 

379/27 Cobh military hospital and lodge, cost of electricity supplies (s) 

382/27 Richmond Barracks, Templemore, furnishing Capt Tuohy’s quarters (s) 

385/27 army stocks, supply of bedsteads (lovely letterheads, including Pearsons 

of Ship St and others) (bits) (m) 

390/27 case of Joseph Corley, labourer, employment letter (vs) 

395/27 correspondence with Irish Land Commission re suites for garda barracks 

(m) 

406/27 military stocks, salt, pepper, mustard pots (s) 

479/27 Wexford post office engineering Inspector’s office, furniture (ms) 

509/27 Marlborough Hall Preparatory College (ms) 

514/27 Roches Point coastguard station, lettings file (ml) 

OPW5 – 549/27 – 598/27 

** 

556/27 Askeaton garda station, Limerick, vol 1, lease file (ml) 

567/27 Knock garda station, Mayo, purchase file (m) 

591/27 Dublin Custom House, reconstruction, contract for balustrade (vs) 

595/27 Ring garda station, Waterford, purchase file (s) 

598/27 toilet ware supplies (s) 

OPW5 – 604/27 – 640/27 

* 

252

606/27 Renmore barracks, reconstruction file (m) 

608/27 Griffith Barrack, Dublin proposed use as furniture store and Dublin Castle 

(plan of Wellington Barracks & Marshalsea Barracks) (m) 

616/27 Cloghane garda station, Kerry, main file (works) (p) (m) 

620/27 Curry garda station, Sligo, lease file (s) 

OPW5 – 645/27 – 712/27 

* 

645/27 Dublin GPO, Princes St & general reconstruction (vl) 

679/27 Dublin Custom House, North Front, orders and tenders (vs) 

704/27 Phoenix Park, staff and duties (s) 

712/27 Lisacasey garda station, Clare, temporary premises file (s) 

OPW5 – 720/27 – 995/27 

************* 

720/27 Drogheda garda station (Westgate), lease file (s) 

750/27 Ennis post office, alterations to telephone room (s) 

768/27 Collins Barracks, Cork, lino for floors in Central Block (s) 

788/27 Government contracts & Dublin Engineering Employer’s Association, 

agreed procedure for tenders (s) 

796/27 discovery of safe in Four Courts (vs) 

840/27 Columb Barracks, Mullingar, furnishing quarters of Captain Kearns (s) 

885/27 Cork district, plumbing and gas-fitting, works and supplies, periodic 

contracts (vl) 

910/27 DAD proposed anticipatory repayment (s) 

915/27 removal of hut from military barracks, repairs to water supply in Youghal 

Barracks (s) 

960/27 Cartronkeel (Spiddal) national school, 1884-1925 (m) 

OPW5 – 1025/27 – 1119/27 

**** 

1045/27 Haulbowline – consumption of light in houses occupied by military (s) 

1053/27 establishment: case of Martin McNamara, temporary clerk (s) 

1066/27 Rathmore garda station, Kerry (vol 1), lease etc, compensation claim, 

querulous landlord (vg) (bits) (m) 

1071/27 Ballyfarnon garda station, Roscommon, temporary premises (s) 

1117/27 Inchicore Model School, water meter (vs) 

1119/27 Cloonturk national school, Leitrim, repairs, works (mostly FS) (m) 

253

OPW5 – 1124/27 – 1401/27 

******** 

1231/27 Sligo Customs House, erection of coal shed etc (p) (s) 

1241/27 ancient monuments, proposed legislation (m) 

1313/27 Stephen’s Green, improvement work, levelling mound, shrubbery north 

side (s) 

1346/27 Dublin metropolitan police, gas, water, electricity supplies and 

consumption (m) 

1362/27 Westport post office, gas arrangements (vs) 

1399/27 army stocks, garden rollers (s) 

1401/27 Post and Telegraph buildings, provision in estimates, garage 

accommodation and other works, 1913-26 (ml) 

OPW5 – 1434/27 – 1516/27 

**** 

1434/27 dispute with electrical contractors in Custom House (s) 

1437/27 Ministry of Pensions office, 61 Upper Mount St (s) 

1491/27 Pullocheney coastguard station, Sligo, tenancies (s) 

1504/27 Rosmuck national school, Galway, original building & extension, 1875- 

1926 (2 photos, 1925) (ml) 

1516/27 2 Merrion Square, alteration and adaptation works for Dept Local 

Government (heating etc) (m) 

OPW5 – 1518/27 – 1615/27 

* 

1518/27 establishment – estimates (vs) 

1529/27 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, furnishing Deputy Master’s House for 

Major-General Hogan (s) 

1538/27 dumping of Corporation refuse near Islandbridge Gate, accepted by OPW 

(vs) 

1547/27 Templetuohy garda station, Tipperary, building file (vol 1) (mostly site 

purchase phase) (specs and plans) (m) 

1567/27 Admiralty House and grounds, Cobh, lease file (m) 

1573/27 ‘Sisyphus’ dredger, materials? (vs) 

1596/27 accommodation for Committee on Milk Supply (s) 

1608/27 claim by Cornelius O’Riordain of Dunmanway, house commandeered by 

army, compensation question (g) (ml) 

1615/27 Dublin GPO, 25-27 Henry St, extension, refunding cost of items (s) 

254

OPW5 – 1621/27 – 1817/27 

***** 

1621/27 deeds etc in respect of ancient monuments in Northern Ireland, passed on 

to Ministry of Finance NI (s) 

1673/27 Cappataggle garda station, Galway, location of suitable house (s) 

1702/27 Dublin Castle garda barracks, outbreak of fire, 23 rd Jan 1927 (exct barrack 

plans) (s) 

1751/27 service contracts, plumbing, gas fittings, ironmongers, Dublin district 

(bits) (ml) 

1768/27 Dun Laoighaire and Howth harbour, application for coal bank (s) 

1774/27 Athenry Agricultural Station, water supply and sewage disposal (p) (m) 

1817/27 supplies of wardrobes (s) 

OPW5 – 1819/27 – 1979/27 

***** 

1819/27 Stephen’s Green, water fowl, care and management (m) 

1856/27 Post Office Factory, St John’s Road, painting etc (vs) 

1863/27 Beechwood garda station, Tipperary, main file (m) 

1880/27 supply of Holderbats for Four Courts, Dublin, correspondence (s) 

1925/27 Longford DD, maintenance etc (m) 

1939/27 Clonakilty post office, minor supplies, adaptations (s) 

1979/27 Scariff garda station, Clare, site location (incl Scariff), Fever Hospital (p) 

(m) 

OPW5 – 2001/27 – 2127/27 

**** 

2001/27 Killybegs coastguard station, tenancy (s) 

2011/27 Howth Harbour, fishermen’s accommodation, leveling parade ground of 

old coastguard station (gd bits) (p) (ml) 

2047/27 coal supplies, Dublin district, problems, weighbridges (s) 

2055/27 Munster Institute, Cork, complaints regarding starch, soap, powder 

supplied (s) 

2091/27 Kilmannock DD, Wexford, repair of slobs scheme (qg) (ms) 

2105/27 Athy garda station, Wexford, vol 1 (mostly leasehold) (gd plans) (m) 

2115/27 Virginia garda station, Cavan, temporary premises file (m) 

OPW5 – 2135/27 – 2272/27 

***** 

255

2135/27 Croc na Naomh national school, Donegal, new school (FS) (done up to 

signing of contract) (m) 

2148/27 request for typist in Waterford district (vs) 

2167/27 Public Buildings general, general photography file, memo (nice photo RIC 

Barracks, Killinick) (mostly receipts) (m) 

2177/27 memo on special leave etc (exct) (s) 

2191/27 Saula national school, Mayo, Achill Sound, 1910-18 (p) (m) 

2272/27 Dun Laoighaire harbour, fish curing station (s) 

OPW5 – 2288/27 – 2425/27 

* 

2288/27 record of assistance by OPW to Geological Survey Office (vs) 

2298/27 Baltimore garda station, Cork, rebuilding file, vol 1 (progress reports) 

(tenders, specs, plans) (m) 

2325/27 Moyne garda station, Tipperary, lease file (ms) 

2334/27 36 Fenian St, Dublin, rooms rented for Statistical Office (s) 

2394/27 Morris Mills, Co Clare, temporary premises file (s) 

2408/27 restoration of 29 th South Mall, Cork (lots plans) (ml) 

2425/27 Cork Juvenile Advisory Committee meetings (vs) 

OPW5 – 2436/27 – 2615/27 

******* 

2436/27 Helvick Head coastguard station, Waterford (complicated compensation 

case) (m) 

2439/27 Teelin coastguard station, Donegal, leasing (destroyed 10 th April 1923) 

(m) 

2462/27 storm damage to public buildings, 28 th Jan 1927, reports (s) 

2529/27 Derrylahan national school, Sligo, repairs (vs) 

2559/27 Crown Alley telephone exchange, painting (vs) 

2563/27 army supplies, barracks forms (s) 

2606/27 cleaning laneway, Veterinary College Ballsbridge (vs) 

2608/27 Curragh Camp, contact with Tudor Accummulator Ltd (electricity 

company) (s) 

2611/27 Dept of Fisheries, knitting classes, Bangor-Erris, Mayo (vs) 

2614/27 Kilkenny probate office, fuel and light (s) 

2615/27 works at Kilkenny barracks (s) 

OPW5 – 2617/27 – 2691/27 

*** 

2617/27 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, external painting, contracts (s) 

256

2642/27 St Catherine’s national school, Dublin, improvements (mostly FS) (ml) 

2650/27 Knockbeha national school, Clare (Feakle), erection (FS) (m) 

2657/27 returns by Government Contracts Committee of Contracts, Oct-Dec 1926 

(m) 

2665/27 Ballyhaise Agricultural Station, works file, electric lights and repairs (m) 

2691/27 Clonmel garda station, Tipperary, electric lights contract (s) 

OPW5 – 2714/27 – 2967/27 

************** 

2723/27 Damage to Property (Compensation) Act, 1923, question of fees due to 

T.E. Martin, investigator (ms) 

2783/27 supply of tools to DATI Forestry Branch (s) 

2835/27 military stocks, recreation room tables (s) 

2844/27 Southern Command, blinds for single officers quarters (s) 

2890/27 Marlboro Hall Preparatory College/Colaiste Caoimhin, cultivation of 

grounds/show for opening of college, Feb 1927 (s) 

2946/27 Loughquitane teacher’s residence, Kerry, 1907-15 (m) 

2952/27 Shinrone DD, trustees of Board, usual (m) 

2957/27 Burnham House, Preparatory College, Ventry Co Kerry, supplies (s) 

OPW5 – 3003/27 – 3096/27 

* 

3003/27 Ballyvaughan post office, garage accommodation (s) 

3005/27 Custom House, Dublin, terrazzo pavement, contract (vs) 

3010/27 employment of gangers for drainage works (not to be employed in home 

county) (vs) 

3020/27 Phoenix Park – renewal of gun licences (s) 

3057/27 proposed new military barracks, Sligo, report on Finner Camp (near 

Bundoran) (s) 

3067/27 Custume barracks, Athlone, Col O’Connor’s quarters, furnishings (s) 

3092/27 Kilmessan garda station, Meath, temporary premises file (s) 

3097/27 Liscarroll garda station, Cork, vol I file, lease and repairs (m) 

3096/27 Rush garda station, Dublin, lease and adaptation (nice plans) (qg) (m) 

OPW5 – 3106/27 – 3242/27 

******, 1AD. 

3106/27 Ballyhass national school, Cork (s) 

3124/27 Cromane coastguard station, Kerry tenancies (m) 

3159/27 29 South Mall, Cork, 99 year rebuilding lease to Thomas Meagher (s) 

3170/27 officers transferred to Northern Ireland (vs) 

257

3213/27 Marlborough Hall, repairs to harmonium (vs) 

3218/27 Kanturk garda station, Cork, contracts, repairs and compensation (m) 

3229/27 Birdhill garda station, Tipperary, vol II, file, lease, repairs, minor works 

(p) (m) 

OPW5 – 3260/27 – 3369/27 

*, 1AD. 

3260/27 Limerick post office, accommodation for medical officers (s) 

3278/27 reconstruction of Dublin Custom House, B Block (s) 

3325/27 partition in Custom House, Dublin (vs) 

3403/27 Custom House, Dublin, police supervisor (p) (vs) 

3299/27 Rathduff garda station, Cork, building file (specs) (m) 

3312/27 Arbour Hill military church, adaptations (qg) (specs etc) (m) 

3320/27 Curragh Camp Capt Redmond quarters, furnishing (s) 

3329/27 Ardfert Cathedral, Kerry, inspections etc (s) 

3333/27 Stephen’s Green: proposed ‘miniature Dublin’ (s) 

3334/27 fire at Government Buildings, safeguarding premises, notes (p, basement) 

(m) 

3342/27 Cleggan Pier, improvements in 1900s (ms) 

3369/27 Portmagee national school, Kerry (vs) 

OPW5 – 3379/27 – 3442/27 

* 

3379/27 Ruane national school, Clare, repairs (s) 

3387/27 Skerries coastguard station, disposal (m) 

3396/27 coal supplies from Wolfhill Colliery Co., 1923-27 (ml) 

3423/27 Tralle ex-RIC barracks, Kerry (s) 

3432/27 Phoenix Park – conversion of Bessborough DMP barracks into cottages 

for park staff (s) 

3442/27 Baltard national school, Clare, repairs and erection, 1907-15 (ml) 

OPW5 – 3448/27 – 3546/27 

**** 

3448/27 Milltown mixed national school, Kildare, repairs (FS) (m) 

3483/27 34 Molesworth st, compensation file, post-truce damage (s) 

3494/27 appointment of commissioners to Board of Control: Royal Canal, Dun 

Laoighaire, Dunmore East, Donaghadee (m) 

3512/27 Rathcoole garda station, Cork, main file, vol I, lease and works (plans) (m) 

3544/27 watchmen and caretakers leave (vs) 

258

3546/27 National Museum, additional accommodation, erection of new gallery (p) 

(m) 

OPW5 – 3550/27 – 3607/27 

****** 

3568/27 College of Science, occupation by govt departments and transfer to UCD, 

1924-27 (m) 

3572/27 Carrigaholt garda station, Clare, erection, new barrack file (m) 

3590/27 Colaiste Ide, Kerry, furniture (good ads) (m) 

3599/27 Tuam post office, erection of garage and petrol store (p) (ms) 

3607/27 Listowel UDC, arrears file to Sept 1933 (ms) 

OPW5 – 3630/27 – 3752/27 

**** 

3630/27 Four Courts, reinforced concrete floors (vs) 

3611/27 Ballyvelaghan national school, Clare, additional improvements (s) 

3620/27 Howth, harbour-master’s house on West Pier, maintenance (m) 

3628/27 direct labour works at Four Courts, Custom House, GPO, (vs) 

3637/27 Oireachtas proposed restaurant etc 1926-, vol 1 (lots plans) (ms) 

3639/27 Phoenix Park, development of national parks and natural attractions of the 

state (vs) 

3661/27 lease of land for hut, Ardnacrusha (vs) 

3667/27 Booterstown garda station, Dublin, fuel and light (m) 

3681/27 Kildare war pensions committee, 17 Upper Main St, Naas (ml) 

3689/27 Ardrahan national teacher’s residence (s) 

3733/27 Waterville garda station, Kerry, lease (s) 

3752/27 GPO, Dublin, Mountcharles sandstone, freight charges (vs) 

OPW5 – 3755/27 – 3999/27 

******** 

3755/27 Dun Laoighaire labour exchange, 93 Lwr George’s St, rent, 1912-25, 

expansion, room needed (m) 

3759/27 reduction of staff, case of William Carpenter (s) 

3788/27 Barran national school, Cavan, 1915-25 (ml) 

3859/27 disposal of Kinsale military barracks and hiring scheme (qg) (m) 

3905/27 Rathduff garda station, Cork, lease file (s) 

OPW5 – 4003/27 – 4119/27 

259

**** 

4003/27 Colaiste Ide/Burnham House, outline of works (exct) (ms) 

4004/27 Cork employment exchange, electric cooker (vs) 

4020/27 Birr Customs & Excise, rent etc (ms) 

4041/27 Ballyfarna national school, Mayo, improvements (FS) (m) 

4048/27 West Dublin Model School, vandalism and caretaker (s) 

4055/27 Trade Loans Guarantee Act: loan proposed for Irish Fresh Meats Ltd 

(Boyne) (m) 

4098/27 Phoenix Park – applications for hawkers licences (ms) 

4100/27 No.2 Clothing Store grounds, Infirmary Road, furnishings, Capt 

O’Sullivan’s quarters (s) 

OPW5 – 4120/27 – 4355/27 

********* 

4120/27 Milltown national school, Galway, 1909-20 (ml) 

4147/27 Irish Land Commission, vacuum cleaning (s) 

4150/27 pneumatic tube, College Green, post office to GPO (telegraph service) (vs) 

4152/27 Dept of Education, Technical Instruction Branch, electricity (vs) 

4166/27 Mary St, Waterford garda station, lease file (m) 

4177/27 Farranfore garda station, Kerry (s) 

41235/27 supply of blankets to Ballyconnell House (nice letterhead Claytons 

drapery) (s) 

4249/27 Dept of Finance, post of assistant principal, application from OPW (ms) 

4281/27 Dun Laoighaire harbour workmen, retiring allowances, three men (s) 

4351/27 Custom House, Dublin, Long Room, counters etc (exct plans) (ms) 

4355/27 Dun Laoighaire, letting of hut on Carlisle Pier (s) 

OPW5 – 4363/27 – 4425/27 

***, 1AD. 

4363/27 teak rafters for Custom House restoration (vs) 

4375/27 Arva garda station, Cavan, lease file (ml) 

4382/27 Cashel garda station, Tipperary, public trespass on site and ruins (s) 

4398/27 Public Buildings General, supply of carpets (qg) (m) 

4400/27 labour exchange, sub-office Tralee, flooding, rent etc (p) (ml) 

4423/27 JP Irvine, assistant architect (s) 

OPW5 – 4429/27 – 4553/27 

****** 

4429/27 Four Courts restoration, East & West pavilions, steelwork (plans, specs 

etc) (wk) (ml) 

260

4480/27 OPW service contracts, repair of lawnmowers (ml) 

4513/27 Beacons/Lights, Burtonport Harbour (s) 

4538/27 sanitation in rural schools (s) 

4553/27 16 Upper Merrion St, Passport Office, fuel and light (s) 

OPW5 – 4559/27 – 4819/27 

*********** 

4559/27 coal to Mountjoy Prison (great letterhead) (vs) 

4574/27 Drumshambo garda station, Leitrim, repairs (s) 

4583/27 Blacksod Bay coastguard station, alleged sale of lifeboat (s) 

4587/27 question in Dail on Portland Stone (vs) 

4608/27 Ardnacrusha garda station, Clare, rent of house (p) (s) 

4626/27 quarters for J Kinsella, 6 Harcourt St (s) 

4637/27 proposed flood lighting of government buildings (p) (s) 

4653/27 Pullendiva coastguard station, rent file (m) 

4724/27 Stephen’s Green, widening of road, entrance to memorial arch (s) 

4762/27 Preparatory Colleges in Mayo, inspection, Cloghans House, Ballinrobe & 

Bloomfield, Knock, Co Mayo (s) 

4819/27 Waterford post office, repairs/minor works (m) 

OPW5 – 4823/27 – 4910/27 

****** 

4837/27 Shannon Electricity Scheme, correspondence with Shannon Navigation 

(m) 

4864/27 Griffith Barracks, supplies (vs) 

4875/27 Barrow Drainage, drafts of bill (m) 

4904/27 military works companies, unreturned packing cases (ms) 

4910/27 Limerick Inland Revenue office, 92 O’Connell St, file 1 (nice plan of 

office – ripped) (plans of presses), 1915-26 (ml) 

OPW5 – 4911/27 – 5099/27 

* 

5026/27 Malin Head coastguard station, tenancies (ml) 

4911/27 War Pensions Committee, Bedford Place, Navan, rent and adaptations 

(ms) 

4932/27 establishment: transfer of assistant architects and other matters (vg) (s) 

4954/27 alterations to Cork Model School (small) (s) 

4968/27 armed robbery of paymaster, Dunkellin DD (s) 

4970/27 Killarney garda station, Kerry, compensation claim (s) 

5001/27 Bawn Castle and Nunnery, Longford, vesting proposed (rejected) (s) 

261

5091/27 dispute with Gleeson O’Dea ironmongers (vs) 

5096/27 Ordnance Survey office, alterations, electric lighting etc (p) (s) 

509/27 insurance of boilers at Agricultural institutions (s) 

OPW5 – 5103/27 – 5322/27 

******** 

5103/27 Amiens St central telegraph office 

5197/27 Dundrum Asylum, letting a strip of ground (s) 

5198/27 Dundrum Asylum, sewerage and labourers (on staff) etc (m) 

5199/27 Rockfield House, nurses hostel, maintenance (ms) 

5223/27 Buttevant military barracks, disposal/Cork (s) 

5240/27 employment of foreman stonecutter on GPO (vs) 

5280/27 Lissonfield House, works file, dangerous trees (m) 

OPW5 – 5670/27 – 5783/27 

5670/27 Cootehall garda station, Roscommon, temporary premises (s) 

5692/27 Munster Institute, Cork, addition to gate lodge (plans, specs) (s) 

5700/27 Robert’s Cove coastguard station, Cork, lettings (m) 

5729/27 military stocks, curtains, poles etc (m) 

5753/27 Arklow harbour, annual accounts etc, 1919-27 (ml) 

5783/27 National Health Insurance Commissioners, Kilkenny district, medical 

referee (vs) 

OPW5 – 5785/27 – 5835/27 

5785/27 Ballina war pensions office, Knox St, Ballina, property (ml) 

5794/27 Spanish Point (Seafield) coastguard station, Clare (m) 

5796/27 Rathmullen coastguard station, Donegal, lettings (m) 

5803/27 drainage districts, applications to form new district, 1925-27 (gd bits) (ml) 

2835/27 Custom House, Dublin, steelwork and new boiler house (s) 

OPW5 – 5851/27 – 5985/27 

** 

5851/27 Tipperary garda station, Tipperary, lease file (ms) 

5861/27 valuations of districts (drainage schemes) (gd bits) (m) 

5887/27 Land Commission, electric lighting (m) 

5962/27 Miltown Malbay garda station, Clare, main file I (up to reconstruction) 

(qg) (m) 

5981/27 Limerick post office, provision of bins (p) (specs) (s) 

262

5982/27 Marlboro House, repair of tank (s) 

OPW5 – 6008/27 – 6101/27 

** 

6034/27 GPO Dublin, reconstruction, Block A (specs, plans, contracts) (m) 

6078/27 Mogher, Kilglass, Roscommon, house destroyed, 29 th Nov 1920, 

compensation claim (m) 

6083/27 Ordnance Survey Office, electric lighting, laying of cable (qg) (p) (m) 

6801/27 Ballyporeen garda station, Tipperary, rent file (m) 

OPW5 – 5334/27 – 5468/27 

*** 

5334/27 Glencolumbille garda station, Donegal, vol I, reconstruction file (s) 

5342/27 families’s hospital, Curragh, furniture and utensils (s) 

5382/27 military stocks, oak writing table for officer’s quarters (ms) 

5386/27 Ship St automatic telephone exchange, furniture, fittings etc (p) (s) 

5406/27 Achonry glebe loan, Sligo (usual) (ms) 

5468/27 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, alteration to Infirmary Building (exct plans) 

(specs) (ms) 

OPW5 – 5493/27 – 5594/27 

**** 

5493/27 contracts for kitchen utensils (s) 

5511/27 Greystones coastguard station, tenancies (m) 

5521/27 temporary architectural assistant, M. Carlin (s) 

5522/27 Northern Government: transfer of files (some great bits) (ml) 

5527/27 Fergus DD, usual (ms) 

5590/27 Menlagh national school, Galway, improvements, 1902-25 (s) 

5594/27 Owenmore drainage, alleged irregularities in payment of wages (vs) 

OPW5 – 5611/27 – 5667/27 

*** 

5611/27 Phoenix Park & Stephen’s Green, order of watering pots (s) 

5641/27 St Peter’s national school, Phibsboro, improvements (s) 

5666/27 Bandon garda station, Cork, (Bandon military barracks) (lots plans) main 

file, vol I, works etc (ml) 

5667/27 Bantry garda station, Cork, main file, vol I, works (plans) (m) 

263

OPW5 – 6104/27 – 6208/27 

** 

6104/27 Passage East garda station, Waterford, works file, vol II (exct) (p) (ml) 

6109/27 Liscannor (Lahinch), Clare garda station, vol I, preparatory work (m) 

6125/27 pigeon hole structure, Post Office Savings Bank, Dublin Castle (s) 

6139/27 desks for Cork Model School (p) (s) 

6142/27 copper jelly moulds for army (s) 

6159/27 Malin Head coastguard station, Donegal (s) 

6205/27 paint spraying machines: under consideration by OPW (s) 

6208/27 Dun Laoighaire war pensions sub-committee office (s) 

OPW5 – 6213/27 – 6256/27 

6213/27 Tipperary Training Centre, surrender of tenancies (British Legion 

involved) (qg) (ml) 

6232/27 Ballinamore national school, Leitrim, 1910-25 (ml) 

6246/27 Dunmore East garda station, Waterford, vol I, site location etc (ml) 

6253/27 Limerick Custom House, caretaker (s) 

6256/27 Carrick-on-Suir post office, lease and repairs (s) 

OPW5 – 6258/27 – 6314/27 

** 

6258/27 GPO, Dublin, arcade (p) (ms) 

6259/27 fire main, Post Office Stores Factory, St John’s Road (supply and 

pressure) (s) 

6264/27 clerical class examinations, routine (s) 

6267/27 State Lands Act, 1924, tenancies etc listed (m) 

6280/27 Bunbeg coastguard and wireless telegraph station (destroyed 11 th April 

1922) (disposal file) (m) 

6282/27 Killybegs coastguard station, Donegal, proposed lettings (s) 

6286/27 Churchview national school, Roscommon (m) 

6287/27 claim of Isabella Walsh, Oughterard, damage to property by British Army, 

1920-21 (s) 

6310/27 establishment: special allowances to three Higher Executive Officers (s) 

6314/27 Portobello barracks, garrison church, works (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 6318/27 – 6461/27 

**** 

6318/27 Dunleer garda station, Louth, temporary file (s) 

264

6323/27 Bessboro DMP barracks, conversion into cottages (plans, specs) (ms) 

6326/27 poultry runs in Clonmel barracks (s) 

6343/27 Ballyhaunis post office, Mayo, repairs etc (ms) 

6351/27 lightning conductor, Ordnance Survey map stores (vs) 

6353/27 Garda Depot, electric lighting (p) (s) 

6395/27 Galway Harbour, letting of Galena Oil Company (s) 

6452/27 Lissonfield House, Rathmines, letting to General Mulcahy (ms) 

6454/27 Hibernian School, Comdt McCormack’s quarters, furnishing (s) 

6461/27 OPW annual estimates, 1925-28 (m) 

OPW5 – 6475/27 – 6639/27 

**** 

6493/27 Custom House, Dublin, reconstruction, schedule of accommodation (lots 

plans) (ml) 

6475/27 Bunniconlon garda station, Mayo, temporary premises file (s) 

6497/27 Four Courts, motor for stone crusher, spare parts, (gd ads) (s) 

6505/27 Burnham House, sale of old materials (s) 

6507/27 Messrs Express Lifts, application to be placed on official OPW tender lists 

(s) 

6522/27 garda station boathouse accommodation, Wexford (s) 

6578/27 analysis of water samples (s) 

6576/27 Turlough House and Round Tower, Mayo, inspections, sketches (s) 

6628/27 Ballyguiltenane national school, Glin, Limerick, repairs, 1870s-1920s (s) 

6639/27 estimates, new works, monthly progress (s) 

OPW5 – 6667/27 – 6928/27 

** 

6667/27 Thorndale Veterinary Research laboratory, septic tank (vs) 

6705/27 Omeath national school, Louth, repairs (FS) (s) 

6760/27 fuel and light, Under-Secretary’s Lodge (s) 

6769/27 Burnham House, Preparatory College, supply of utensils and furniture (p) 

(s) 

6772/27 Limerick telephone exchange, 6 Cecil St, Limerick, alterations etc (s) 

6773/27 proposed exchange of land re Marlborough Hall (ms) 

6804/27 Barrow Drainage, application for position as foreman (vs) 

6833/27 establishment: regulations for travelling officers (vs) 

6912/27 proposed harbours commission (s) 

6916/27 Haulbowline, residences’s agreements (m) 

6928/27 Custom House, reconstruction, supply of timber doors (vs) 

265

OPW5 – 6953/27 – 7157/27 

***** 

6953/27 E O’Mahony, officer in compensation cases, fees examined (s) 

6916/27 Ministry of Pensions office, Galway (s) 

6988/27 Clones national school, Monaghan, sanitary works, 1916 (p) (ms) 

6991/27 St Vincent national school, Loughrea, Galway, repairs (FS) (m) 

7028/27 resident office keeper, Revenue Commissioners, Dublin Castle (s) 

7068/27 OPW office accommodation, arterial drainage staff, 50 St Stephen’s Green 

(p) (s) 

7099/27 Graiguenemanagh garda station, Kilkenny, vol I, preparatory works (p) 

(m) 

7144/27 Portrane coasguard station, tenancy (s) 

7151/27 order for desk tables for army (m) 

OPW5 – 7159/27 – 7269/27 

*** 

7188/27 Inland Revenue Offices, supply of safes (ml) 

7189/27 Veterinary College Ballsbridge, electricity supply (vs) 

7218/27 Barrow Drainage, engineering staff 1925-27 (ml) 

7222/27 Mocollop national school, Waterford, 1912-25 (s) 

7269/27 Lough Corrib, Mask & Carra, breakdown of Board into two 

conflicting bodies, engineer’s reports (m) 

OPW5 – 7288/27 – 7543/27 

************ 

7288/27 Malahide garda station, Dublin, temporary premises file (s) 

7306/27 Coast life saving stations, supply of binoculars (s) 

7426/27 Rosslare coastguard station, rents (s) 

7432/27 Furglan national school, Clare (s) 

7449/27 Four Courts and Custom House, coke breeze, contract (s) 

7464/27 Mullingar garda station, Westmeath, some works (s) 

7469/27 33 St Stephen’s Green, grates in public office (s) 

7510/27 National Schools: grants for repair of storm damage, 28 Jan 1927 

(s) 

7543/27 Dungarvan post office, works 1920- (ml) 

OPW5 – 7892/27 – 7967/27 

7892/27 Customs & Excise, Dun Laoighaire, Kingstown Technical School, 

rent file (m) 

266

7897/27 Burnham House, gramophone records list (vs) 

7899/27 Ballyconnell House, roofing contract (vs) 

7901/27 Castledaly national school, Galway, 1910-26 (ml) 

7904/27 Enniscorthy Model School, repairs, electric light, 1910-26 (m) 

7926/27 45 Upper O’Connell St, Dublin (destroyed), utilization of site, 

proposed box office (lots plans) (ml) 

7957/27 Property compensation, Granville Hotel, 17-18 Upper O’Connell 

St (m) 

17967/27 Amiens St parcel office (s) 

OPW5 – 7973/27 – 8175/27 

***** 

7989/27 Bangor-Erris national school, Mayo, building file (t) 

7996/27 Akeragh Lough, Kerry DD, proposed (ml) 

8085/27 Barrow Drainage, correspondence re Bill (m) 

8088/27 arterial drainage, Acts of 1924 & 1925, works programme (m) 

8165/27 Tullamore Customs & Excise Office, 1912-25 (m) 

8175/27 Kenmare garda station, Kerry, vol 1, preparation and plans (ml) 

OPW5 – 8256/27 – 8326/27 

* 

8256/27 Barrow Drainage: clerical officer for Athy office (s) 

8261/27 Kilmovee garda station, Mayo, vol 1, preparatory work (m) 

8280/27 fuel and light: Ship St telephone exchange; Leitrim House; 

Engineer’s Office, Exchange St (m) 

8326/27 Castlebar Military Barracks, restoration (ml) 

OPW5 – 8346/27 – 8570/27 

***** 

8346/27 Trade Loans Guarantee Act, proposed loan to Carrick Slate 

Quarries Ltd (s) 

8348/27 establishment: discharge of temporary staff, 1926 (s) 

8371/27 Berehaven Admiralty property, Beal Lough (s) 

8388/27 Admiralty property at Cobh, Springfield House, lease (s) 

8499/27 Greanagh River, Co Limerick, Trustees (m) 

8543/27 Longmeadows Estate, Dublin rowing club boat-house (m) 

8570/27 Beal Lough, Admiralty lettings (s) 

OPW5 – 7568/27 – 7759/27 

267

7568/27 Four Courts, damage done by Pim Brothers lorry (vs) 

7615/27 Portal Inspection Office, North Wall, supply of disinfecting boxes 

(s) 

7622/27 Miss Leonard, furniture polisher (s) 

7684/27 Farmhill (Kincun) garda station, Mayo, lease file (m) 

7740/27 Chantilly Stud Farm, Shankill, provision of shed for vehicle, farm 

improvements (p) (s) 

7758/27 Lough & River Erne DD, 1922-27, useful on Ireland-NI 

administrative relations (vg) (m) 

7759/27 Howth Harbour: accommodation for fish-curing , reconstruction of 

coastguard station (lots good plans) (gd stuff generally) (m) 

OPW5 – 7760/27 – 7854/27 

7760/27 annual estimates, notes 1927-28 (m) 

7823/27 Development and Roads Improvement Acts, Helvick Head harbour 

(pg) (p) (m) 

7832/27 WicklowHead Signal Station, mostly re letting (brilliant plan, 

photo, 1910) (m) 

7834/27 Irish Land Provision Sailors and Soldiers, applications for 

employment (s) 

7836/27 GPO reconstruction, assistance for Fairweather (vs) 

7854/27 Dublin GPO, vacuum cleaning plant, contract (exct ads) (m) 

8589/27 – 8714/27 

8589/27 Keogh Square, salvage, sale of army Nissen huts (m) 

8590/27 British ex-servicemen in civil service (vs) 

8599/27 unskilled labourers, ex-servicemen in Four Courts and Custom 

House (vs) 

8600/27 Ballyhaise Agricultural School, supply wire netting etc (vs) 

8610/27 GPO, employment of sculptors (vs) 

8620/27 Curry national school, Sligo, additions and alterations, 1914-27 

(ms) 

8635/27 Owenea River, Donegal, under 1925 Arterial Drainage Act, 

inquiry (s) 

8636/27 Crolly River Drainage proposal, inquiry under 1925 Act, reports 

etc (s) 

8676/27 permission to visit Chief Secretary’s Lodge, Phoenix Park (vs) 

8682/27 Cork Income Tax District, 47 Patrick St, rent file, Roche’s 

Buildings (gd plans, layout) (s) 

8695/27 Ballygarvan national school, Cork, FS works and plans, 1923-27 

(vg) (m) 

268

8714/27 Land Commission, brass handrail for staircase, 23 Upper Merrion 

St (vs) 

OPW5 – 8717/27 – 8949/27 

** 

8717/27 Dept of Defence GHQ, Parkgate St, secretary’s office, furniture, 

bookcase etc (p) (ms) 

8807/27 women and juvenile employment exchange, 36-39 Denmark St, 

adaptations (p) (qg) (m) 

8814/27 Phoenix Park – drain from public road near Castleknock gate (s) 

8820/27 Barrow Drainage, questions in Dail respecting wages etc (s) 

8850/27 Rathdown no 1 RDC, £1400 loan sewage Rathmichael (s) 

8896/27 Garda Barracks general, quality of materials and workmanship 

(exct) (ms) 

8919/27 Ballyferriter garda station, Kerry, preparatory works and plans (qg) 

(ms) 

8949/27 military barracks, question of maintenance of army etc, exct 

general correspondence (m) 

OPW5 – 8980/27 – 9165/27 

*, 1AD. 

8980/27 Kildare monastery national school, 1917-27, etc (p) (m) 

8983/27 St Patrick’s national school, Carrowmore, Mayo, remodeling, FS 

(p) (vg) (ms) 

9030/27 Marlborough Hall, preparatory college, internal renovation (ms) 

9077/27 accommodation for Fishery Conference, 24 Kildare St (vs) 

9084/27 Dept of External Affairs, shelving for passport office, 23 St 

Stephen’s Green (vs) 

9107/27 Shannon Power Scheme, Electricity (Supply) Bill (1927), lots gen 

studies (m) 

9133/27 St Michael’s national school, Slieveneage, Cork, adaptations, 

1900-27 (s) 

9165/27 Inchicore North Estate, lot 44, tenancies (m) 

OPW5 – 9174/27 – 9225/27 

9174/27 Ballylanders garda station, Limerick, rent and repairs (2 photos of 

ex-RIC barrack destroyed) (m) 

9176/27 Abbeyleix North national school, Queens County (s) 

9177/27 Tondragee national school, Roscommon (s) 

9179/27 Bowris national school, Mayo (Westport), 1910-18 (p) (m) 

269

9190/27 establishment: promotion to clerical grade (s) 

9223/27 Castlebar Lakes DD, 1854-1920s (m) 

9225/27 Cranny national school, Clare, 1905-20s (s) 

OPW5 – 9232/27 – 9337/27 

** 

9232/27 establishment: clerical staff, appointments, transfers etc (m) 

9293/27 Miss Neary cleaner, Hume St etc (vs) 

9302/27 Dept of Industry and Commerce, statistical branch (vs) 

9304/27 Marlboro Hall, Preparatory College, repairs to boundary fence (vs) 

9323/27 Drishaghan proposed national school, Galway, erection (FS), 

1923-27 (m) 

9337/27 125 Lwr Baggot St, DATI offices, works and rent, repairs, 1910-27 

(p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 9341/27 – 9444/27 

**** 

9341/27 Griffith Barracks, heating etc (specs, lots plans) (m) 

9367/27 Berehaven Admiralty property, letting of oil fuel installation (s) 

9369/27 Tralee UDC, Housing of Working Classes loan (s) 

9374/27 Paddinstown DD, Westmeath, inquiries, reports etc (m) 

9406/27 Old Abbey, Clough Prior, Tipperary, proposed vesting (gd) (vs) 

9413/27 stamp duty on grazing licences (ms) 

9419/27 Dun Laoighaire, piles supporting Trader’s Wharf (s) 

9424/27 dispensary house loans, general correspondence (vs) 

9444/27 Kilmeedy garda station, Limerick, reconstruction file (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 9470/27 – 9613/27 

* 

9470/27 Ballyconeely/Errismore ex-RIC barracks, Galway, letting (ms) 

9472/27 Stradbally garda station, Waterford, main file no 1, works, repairs, 

letting (m) 

9504/27 Ardrahan national school, Kerry, repairs 1910- (m) 

9580/27 Burtonport railway, approach to Burtonport station, 1909-27, 

misconduct of neighbourhood gombeen, JF O’Donnell (p) (ml) 

9593/27 Ballinamuck garda station, Longford, vol 1: rents, repairs etc (qg) 

(m) 

270

OPW5 – 9616/27 – 9884/27 

*** 

9616/27 Maryborough War Pensions Committee office, repairs, rent etc (ml) 

9621/27 Dun Laoighaire coastguard station, letting cottage no 3 (s) 

9624/27 Northern Boundary Customs Hut, window blinds (vs) 

9668/27 Garda Barracks, provision of shelving (vs) 

9678/27 Drunkeehanmore national school, Drumshambo, Leitrim, 1888-1927 (m) 

9683/27 Ardara and Loughs Point national school, Donegal (s) 

9689/27 South Dublin RDC, loan for waterworks, sewerage (s) 

9722/27 50-51 Upper Mount St, Dept Local Government, tenancy & rent (ms) 

9724/27 College of Science, improvements to water supply, new boilers etc (ms) 

9734/27 Ordnance Survey department grounds, gardener in charge (s) 

9749/27 GPO, Dublin, Block A, slating contract (vs) 

9788/27 disposal of premises to be vacated on completion of Custom House 

reconstruction (s) 

9815/27 railings for counter, Ballsbridge post office (s) 

9862/27 Drainage Schemes: Dept Finance sanction for appointment of pay clerk (s) 

9884/27 Land Commission, 25 Merrion St, provision of typist room, heating 

arrangement generally (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 9900/27 – 9998/27 

* 

9900/27 Tralee garda station, Kerry, preparatory work, detective branch (qg) (ms) 

9922/27 Cashen national school, Kerry, 1895-1927 (m) 

9933/27 Athenry national schoolteacher’s residence, 1880-1927, usual (m) 

9943/27 proposed Multeen DD (under 1925 AD Act), Tipperary, reports etc (m) 

9967/27 Beggars Bush barracks, furnishing of Commandant O’Brien’s quarters (s) 

9991/27 Ballyconnell College, storage tank etc (s) 

9998/27 Portnoo pier, Donegal, Marine Works Act, inspections, repairs etc, 1903- 

27 (m) 

note on file 11822/27 – at head of file ‘memo: these papers have been examined and the 

folios which need not be retained have been weeded out and destroyed’ 

‘NYC, division C, 25/8/61’ 

OPW5 – 10022/27 – 10278/27 

10022/27 Ballinakill garda station, Leitrim, temporary premises (s) 

10051/27 Tallaght Camp, Dublin, letting of chaplains house (s) 

10112/27 Ellon garda station, Limerick, temporary premises (s) 

271

10183/27 Garda Stations: furnishing of superintendents and chief superintendent’s 

offices (p) (ml) 

10197/27 Campile garda station, Wexford, temporary premises (s) 

10212/27 list of contractors for painting (s) 

10253/27 employment on Owenmore drainage District (vg) (vs) 

10278/27 Shannon Navigation: removal of gravel from Derryholmes spoil bank (vs) 

OPW5 – 10331/27 – 10551/27 

******* 

10331/27 Avondale Forestry Centre/Station, repairs to cottages (s) 

10345/27 Barrow Drainage, lodging allowances (vs) 

10413/27 Caraganew national school, Galway (s) 

10466/27 Dail Election, 1927, polling equipment, tenders, complaints (p) (s) 

10437/27 E. Mulligan, temporary junior engineer (s) 

10447/27 Clane garda station, Kildare, preparatory works (qg) (m) 

10480/27 Slievemore national school, Mayo, 1900-27 (ml) 

10513/27 newspaper ads, expenditure etc, 1920-27 (m) 

10551/27 Marlboro Hall/College, supplies, horticultural tools (ms) 

OPW5 – 10552/27 – 10719/27 

********** 

10629/27 Sligo customs bonded stores, tenancy (ms) 

10679/27 Albert Agricultural College, food stores, fencing water supplies, bull 

boxes (m) 

10682/27 Collins Barracks, Cork, quarters for senior married officers, works etc (p) 

(m) 

10718/27 Dalkey UDC, loan £6000, renewal of water-mains (s) 

10719/27 Curracloe coastguard station, tenancies (m) 

OPW5 – 10742/27 – 10934/27 

***** 

10742/27 Barrow Drainage, question of workmen’s pay, time off to vote (s) 

10758/27 Oireachtas buildings, new staircase from Leinster House to minister’s 

room (p) (s) 

10779/27 Land Commission, collapse of chimney stack between 21 & 22 Merrion St 

(s) 

10787/27 Royal Hibernian Military School, transfer to Saorstat (m) 

10795/27 Curragh Camp, boy killed in lorry accident, compensation claim (m) 

10827/27 barrack equipment schedules, army supplies listing (qg example) (m) 

10848/27 DMP station, investigation of lights etc arrangements (m) 

272

10905/27 National University houses, 55-62 Upper Mount St & 20-30 Lwr 

Fitzwilliam St, rent and works (ms) 

10929/27 loan to Galway Co Council, drainage maintenance, £755 (s) 

10934/27 Rosslare coastguard station, Wexford, boathouse, letting (s) 

OPW5 – 10955/27 – 10992/27 

10955/27 post office premises, 14 & 15 Upper O’Connell St, destroyed 3 rd July 1922 

(good early bits) (ml) 

10977/27 Dept of Industry and Commerce, Lord Edward St, Dublin, adaptation 

works etc (p) (ml) 

10992/27 periodical contracts, Dockrell & Sons etc (m) 

OPW5 – 10993/27 – 11143/27 

10993/27 application for plans by building contractors (ml) 

10994/27 architectural staff, leave arrangements, 1927-30 (little bits) (m) 

11139/27 Keogh Square, Dublin, reserved sites (to state) (m) 

11143/27 areas of unemployment around Ireland, 1925-27 (brilliant!!) (m) 

OPW5 – 11147/27 – 1391/27 

** 

11147/27 establishment: staff borrowed from Local Government Board etc (ms) 

11195/27 House of Detention, 54 Summerhill, leave for encroachment (s) 

11202/27 Ballon (Feenagh) garda station, Carlow, pt 1 reconstruction file (specs, p) 

(m) 

11275/27 ancient monuments on Inishmaan (Arran Island), inspections etc (m) 

11277/27 Custom House, reconstruction, electric lighting contract (s) 

11326/27 Oireachtas restaurant, cost of lighting and heating (s) 

11349/27 Four Courts, plastering East & West Pavilions, contracts (s) (wk) 

11391/27 Oireachtas, dining room, equipment (m) 

OPW5 – 11419/27 – 11657/27 

*** 

11419/27 Irish inscriptions on public buildings (s) 

11478/27 loans to Dublin City Commissioners, rebuilding, 35-37 Lwr Abbey St 

under Reconstruction Act, 1916, £20,000 (m) 

11512/27 consumption electricity, Governor-General’s Residence (s) 

11550/27 Castles at Clooney and Kilberry, vesting etc (vs) 

11561/27 letter slandering character of foreman on Barrow works (vs) 

273

11563/27 change to name of dredger, the ‘Esk’ (s) 

11593/27 Foynes, Limerick garda station (s) 

11606/27 Dept of Lands and Agriculture, accommodation for butter-testing staff, 

industrial annex (p) (ml) 

11651/27 Ship St automatic telephone exchange (p) (s) 

11657/27 Seanad Eireann, ventilation (s) 

OPW5 – 11693/27 – 11884/27 

* 

11693/27 furniture for national monuments, rooms Central Bridewell (s) 

11707/27 price list, furniture supplies for army 

11765/27 Ballinamult garda station, Waterford, temporary premises (s) 

11797/27 Mullaghderg Light (beacon), Donegal, maintenance file (s) 

11813/27 Civil service examination, transfer of desks and chairs (s) 

11814/27 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, in use as HQ for Army or Garda Siochana, 

general correspondence, 1925-27 (m) 

11822/27 Lauragh garda station, Kerry, building file, works, significant note (s) (m) 

11855/27 army correspondence and furniture supplies, arrangements (bits) (s) 

11884/27 Derryvooreada national school, Galway, 1920-26 (s) 

OPW5 – 11903/27 – 12089/27 

*** 

11903/27 Irish plaster of paris, Fanvey Development Company (m) 

11946/27 Cork post office, formation of bathroom in yard of Imperial Hotel (p) (ms) 

12015/27 Land Commission, internal painting (s) 

12067/27 presses for Revenue huts (p) (s) 

12077/27 Four Courts, East & West Wings, roofing (s) 

12089/27 Ministry of Pensions Office, 2 Bank Place, Ennis (m) 

OPW5 – 12105/27 – 12185/27 

**, 1AD. 

12105/27 Dun Laoighaire harbour, dues payable by passenger steamers (ml) 

12159/27 Hind River, Roscommon, engineering analysis of proposed restoration 

(ml) 

12184/27 OPW comments on Cork Harbour Bill (s) 

12185/27 Annual Report, 1925-26: detailed memoranda from which final report 

drawn up (m) 

274

OPW5 – 12192/27 – 12333/27 

*** 

12192/27 Skreen garda station, Sligo, purchase file (ms) 

12217/27 coal supplies for military barracks, 1927-28 (vs) 

12226/27 Dundalk post office, letter boxes (lovely sketches) (s) 

12233/27 Howth Harbour, proposed barrel store, East Pier (vs) 

12245/27 Customs House reconstruction, steelwork for Block J (p) (ms) 

12258/27 GPO reconstruction, steelwork for shopping arcade (s) 

12269/27 Ballybrittas garda station, Leix (vs) 

12281/27 Portnoo garda station, Donegal, temporary premises file (m) 

12321/27 Cloonfour national school-teacher’s residence, 1888- (m) 

12333/27 establishment: temporary architectural assistants and draughtsmen (incl 

Michael J Scott) (ml) 

OPW5 – 12355/27 – 12779/27 

1AD 

12355/27 Hibernian School, Phoenix Park, repairs to boilers (s) 

12481/27 Coaiste Caoimhin, additional cubicles (s) 

12586/27 employment of seamstress, Miss Comerford (vs) 

12606/27 Dublin Custom House, damage to lino by telephone leads (vs) 

12639/27 Central Model School, provision of additional accommodation (exct p) (s) 

12688/27 National Library: show cases for exhibition room (p) (s) 

12698/27 Cork post office, garage at rear of Union Quay barracks (s) 

12776/27 Tullamore garda station, Offaly, vol 1: preparatory works (p) (m) 

12732/27 Duncannon Fort, Wexford, grazing of glacis (ms) 

12779/27 Four Courts and Custom House, reconstruction, cement contracts (m) 

OPW5 – 12806/27 – 12989/27 

12806/27 Meelin garda station, Cork, vol 2 (lots plans) (vol 1 destroyed 22/3/62) 

(m) 

12848/27 vacuum cleaning (vs) 

12852/27 Hibernian School, sewage improvements (p) (m) 

12883/27 Kiltegan garda station, Wicklow, lease and minor works (m) 

121893/27 British military barracks, handed over to Provisional Govt: general 

questions, lists (m) 

12989/27 Moneygall garda station, Offaly, lease file (m) 

OPW5 – 13007/27 – 13241/27 

***** 

275

13007/27 Ringsend coastguard station, tenancies (ml) 

13012/27 Castlebar UDC, loan £500 (s) 

13048/27 Central Model Schools, flushing arrangements (vs) 

13106/27 Letterkenny Inland Revenue (ms) 

13124/27 Kiltyclogher national school, Leitrim (ms) 

13155/27 drainage – Mayo general file (ms) 

13158/27 T. Campion, labourer, Phoenix Park, accident and sick-pay (vs) 

13159/27 W. Fegan, supervisor of installation of electricity at Custom House (s) 

13187/27 proposed new sanitary accommodation at Botanic Gardens (s) 

13226/27 Chief Secretary’s Lodge, used by Aonach Tailteann and by RDS (Spring 

Show) (m) 

OPW5 – 13243/27 – 13342/27 

1AD 

13243/27 Cork Model School, supplies (s) 

13248/27 Latnamord national school, Monaghan (FS) repairs (ms) 

13255/27 Dunmore East weekly fishing returns, 1916-1920 (m) 

13256/27 Howth Harbour, weekly fishing returns, 1916-20 (m) 

13304/27 Lakeview national school, Sligo (s) 

13337/27 Drainage districts, Offaly, apportionment certificates (s) 

13339/27 Haulbowline, detailed brief for estimates, 1926-36 (brilliant!) (m) 

13341/27 ‘Cara na gCuan’ dredger, accident to James Cullen, deckhand, splinter in 

finger (vs) 

13342/27 Liscannor harbour, Co Clare, inspections and repairs, 1921-27 (m) 

OPW5 – 13349/27 – 13494/27 

* 

13349/27 Imperial Services, mostly returns of work (m) 

13357/27 Garda Siochana: damage to railings Maynooth Station (s) 

13367/27 Daingean garda station, Offaly, purchase file etc (m) 

13391/27 telephone connections in GPO Henry St shopping arcade (vs) 

13424/27 John Cunningham, Stephen’s Green, labourer, retirement (vs) 

13442/27 Committee on Economy in Government Expenditure, information 

supplied (vs) 

13466/27 Kingstown Harbour: examination of boilers of launch ‘Vigilant’ and 

workshops boiler (ml) 

13476/27 Fenit coastguard station, lettings (m) 

13494/27 Barrow Drainage, purchase of Ardreigh Mill (ms) 

OPW5 – 13506/27 – 13595/27 

276

*********** 

13515/27 Ballyconnell House, drainpipes (s) 

13543/27 Glasnevin Model School, works and repairs, 1925-27 (s) 

13560/27 mahogany for Custom House (vs) 

13569/27 Roches Point coastguard station, telegraphic line (s) 

13579/27 proposed Department of Works and Supply (m) 

13580/27 Major Lefroy, Irish Sailors and Soldiers Land Trust: first report, 1 st Jan 

1924 to 31 st March 1926 (magnificent booklet, 106pp) also to get, Major 

H. Lefroy, History of Sailors and Soldiers Irish Land Trust, 1915-1925 

(m) 

13595/27 Turloughmore garda station, Galway, purchase file (m) 

OPW5 – 13605/27 – 13698/27 

**** 

13605/27 Listowel garda station, Kerry, works file (vg!) (p) (m) 

13608/27 Mitchelstown garda station, Cork, vol 1: preparatory to reconstruction (pg) 

(p) (m) 

13653/27 Cliffoney garda station, Sligo, temporary premises file (vg) (lovely 

sketches) (m) 

13698/27 application for employment on clerical staff (s) 

OPW5 – 13718/27 – 13883/27 

***** 

13725/27 Clonakilty Agricultural School, water supply (vs) 

13731/27 burst water pipe, Athenry post office (vs) 

13745/27 Rush national school, Dublin, impure water (vs) 

13799/27 establishment: deaths of Queen Victoria (1901) and King Edward 1910 (s) 

13826/27 Nenagh military barracks, Tipperary, disposal file (m) 

13883/27 St Gabriel’s national school, Dublin, 1910-27 (ml) 

OPW5 – 13911/27 – 14005/27 

* 

13911/27 Mountrath garda station, Queens County, rent file (s) 

13918/27 Leap Castle garda station, Kings County, vol 1: general repairs (pg) (m) 

13934/27 British Ministry of Labour, training house, sale of equipment (m) 

13936/27 Dept Post & Telegraphs, 24-25 Henry St, Postal District Office, GPO (s) 

13956/27 Shannon Navigation, proposed reduction of tolls (s) 

13980/27 Goresbridge garda station, Kilkenny, main file, building (p) (m) 

14005/27 Lusk government farm, transfer and administration (ok) (m) 

277

OPW5 – 14018/27 – 14318/27 

14018/27 Inchicore North Estate, lettings, including to Dublin Corporation (m) 

14081/27 Botanic Gardens, external painting (s) 

14131/27 Aughacashel garda station, Leitrim, building file, minor works 

(interesting) (s) 

14179/27 Colaiste Ide, supplies (ms) 

14201/27 Howth Harbour, dumping fish offal in harbour (g) (s) 

14229/27 case of J Duhig, rigger, Haulbowline (s) 

14274/27 collection of ogham stones (s) 

14298/27 Lucan & Leixlip electric tramways, engineering inquiry (s) 

14318/27 Dun Laoighaire harbour, buoys and moorings, inspections, charts etc (m) 

OPW5 – 14321/27 – 14377/27 

14321/27 personnel file (dismissal), Mr Higgins temporary clerk of works (s) 

14323/27 transfer of duties from OPW, railways etc (vg) (m) 

14324/27 Dun Laoighaire, admission to Carlisle Pier, 1888-1927 (vg) (l) 

14331/27 Ballyhale garda station, Kilkenny, purchase file (s) 

14332/27 Drumshambo garda station, Leitrim, rebuilding file, vol 1 (s) 

14363/27 Custume Barracks, furnishing of quarters of Col McDonald (s) 

14376/27 old military barracks, Oughterard, case of commandeered property (s) 

14377/27 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, removal of gas meters (vs) 

OPW5 – 14383/27 – 14610/27 

14383/27 Loughrea post office, transfer of kitchen (s) 

14390/27 Dunnycove coastguard station, Cork, grazing (m) 

14404/27 installing stove in cellar of men’s canteen, Garda Siochana Depot (vs) 

14483/27 Rathcoole garda station, Cork, lease file (s) 

14497/27 Granard garda station, Longford, preliminary reconstruction file (m) 

14507/27 contracts for cutlery and plates for army barracks (s) 

14515/27 proposed vesting of Cahergall Fort, Kerry (s) 

14517/27 return of men employed through contractor, JS Good, Four Courts & 

Custom House (s) 

14578/27 supply of spare parts, dredger ‘Sisyphus’ (s) 

14598/27 robbery of workmen’s wages, 1921 & 1927 (s) 

14602/27 OPW 6 Hume St, telephone extension (vs) 

14610/27 Public Record Office, shelving contract (s) 

OPW5 – 14731/27 – 14839/27 

278

*** 

14731/27 GPO, Dublin, removal of roof, part of lift (p) (s) 

14747/27 Mulgrave garda station, Kerry, interesting compensation case (barracks 

built by government in 1834!) (s) 

14757/27 railings to protect military guards, Dublin Castle (vg) (s) 

14767/27 Dungarvan post office complaint regarding insanitary cellar (s) 

14815/27 loan £14500, auxiliary workhouse, Dublin University (s) 

14824/27 Phoenix Park, motor-cycle races, 1926-27 (lots bits) (l) 

OPW5 – 15060/27 – 15353/27 

**, 1AD 

15210/27 GPO, Dublin, 29 Henry St, shop on arcade (s) 

15216/27 periodical contracts, Cork, ironmongery supplies (m) 

15283/27 Rathmullen garda station, Donegal, main file (ok) (s) 

15323/27 Collinstown aerodrome, parliamentary questions (vs) 

15353/27 Dublin periodical contracts, electricity works, supplies (m) 

OPW5 – 15369/27 – 15581/27 

***** 

15369/27 establishment: Mr TJ Keane, shorthand typist (s) 

15374/27 College Road garda station, Cork, vol 1: proposed establishment (p) (m) 

15395/27 Ministry of Pensions office, Ennis, 2 Bank Place (s) 

15430/27 Glounaguillagh national school, Kerry, 1885-1920 (l) 

15477/27 Ballyconnell House, composition flooring (s) 

15482/27 Roche’s Stores, Cork, accident and compensation to Mrs M Edward (s) 

15577/27 Burtonport harbour, tool and plant store (s) 

15581/27 Clare-galway garda station, Galway, occupation of coastguard castle? by 

Gardai (m) 

OPW5 – 15658/27 – 15940/27 

******* 

15658/27 Cloughjordan garda station, Tipperary, vol 1: preliminary works (m) 

15733/27 Ballyconnell House, order for dining table (s) 

15742/27 hydrometry in the Irish Free State (s) 

15848/27 Dingle harbour, improvement wrks, appointment of clerk of works, 

Thomas Manning (s) 

15850/27 national schools: storm damage (s) 

15588/27 C. O’Reilly, labourer (s) 

15923/27 OPW 50 St Stephen’s Green, mode of hot water heating (s) 

15936/27 Ardee DD, engineering inquiry into projected restoration (vg) (m) 

279

15940/27 James Gregory, garden labourer, Phoenix Park, died 2 nd April 1927 (s) 

OPW5 – 15962/27 – 15986/27 

15962/27 Camolin garda station, Wexford, vol 1, works file (g) (m) 

15963/27 Raheenaskeagh garda station, Wexford, temporary barracks (s) 

15978/27 incidence of charges for supplies and services at agricultural institutions 

(s) 

15981/27 army barracks: furnishing single officers quarters, carpet and lino (mostly 

receipts, invoices) (bits) (m) 

15986/27 army supplies, cutlery, glassware, crockery, etc (ml) 

OPW5 – 15989/27 – 16181/27 

15989/27 Waterford post office, concrete store for petrol (s) 

16087/27 Dublin Custom House, reconstruction, plastering contracts (wk) (m) 

16146/27 Galway Board of Health, loan for Galway Central Hospital, £4354 (s) 

16156/27 Kildare-Rathangan drainage appointment (s) 

16168/27 election equipment, Dublin County (m) 

16181/27 Sneem garda station, Kerry, main file (bits ok) (m) 

OPW5 – 16186/27 – 16290/27 

* 

16193/27 Dept of Fisheries, Glengariff knitting class, sanitary accommodation (nice 

sketch) (vs) 

16244/27 Garda Barracks general – arrangements for water supply (s) 

16256/27 Lower Camoge DD, Limerick (m) 

16258/27 Cloughjordan drainage scheme, proposed, reports etc (s) 

16261/27 Doonbeg River drainage, reports, assents, objections (s) 

16285/27 Queen’s visit to Dublin, 1900, furniture, utensils, auction of Batterie de 

Cuisine (s) 

16290/27 Clonakilty post office, Presbyterian church premises, adaptations (m) 

OPW5 – 16301/27 – 16360/27 

* 

16301/27 Dundalk auxiliary Customs & Excise office, Roden Place (s) 

16316/27 OPW comments on working of land loan system (vs) 

16323/27 Barrow Drainage, alleged injury to labourer, Thomas Day (vs) 

16348/27 Griffith-Collins Memorial, annual ceremony (s) 

16352/27 Lusk Government Farm, disposal (lots plans, site maps) (m) 

280

16355/27 Droichead Nua military barracks, tenancies, way-leaves, encroachments, 

gas supply (m) 

16360/27 Causeway garda station, Cork, vol 1: main file, purchase/leasehold etc (m) 

OPW5 – 16366/27 – 16491/27 

* 

16366/27 St Mullins garda station, Cork (ok, basic) (m) 

16373/27 Rosslare coastguard station, letting of cottages (m) 

16473/27 Local Government Board, old age pensions office, additional 

accommodation, Great Brunswick St, 1909-27, eventual transfer to 

Custom House, c.200 staff, file mostly pre-Independence (vg) 

16479/27 Ballyneety garda station, Limerick, temporary premises file (s) 

16491/27 delay in the recruitment of temporary staff to OPW (vs) 

OPW5 – 16509/27 – 16579/27 

12AD 

16542/27 Shannon Navigation, letting site for store to P Hayes, Limerick (s) 

16558/27 15 Upper Fitzwilliam St, various offices, 1920-29 (qg) (m) 

16519/27 election equipment, Donegal, 1918-23 (bits) (m) 

OPW5 – 16584/27 – 16644/27 

16584/27 motor haulage, vehicles taken into ownership at Gormanstown Camp, 

Crossley Tender spare parts, also Dublin Castle furniture stores (lots 

interesting bits) (m) 

16601/27 Cobh, Admiralty Property, water reservoir (s) 

16605/27 Sligo Customs, Pollexfen’s letting (s) 

16606/27 Limerick Custom House, maintenance, caretaker, 1894-1927 (ml) 

16611/27 proposed substitution of national school for model school (s) 

16643/27 Dublin Custom House, contract for hand power service lift (p) (s) 

16644/27 insurance and inspections of boilers (m) 

OPW5 – 16670/27 – 16833/27 

1AD. 

16670/27 Arterial Drainage Bill, 1925, memoranda (s) 

16700/27 Irish Land Commission, 93 Merrion St, rebuilding, upper part, back wall 

(p) (s) 

16273/27 Galway Harbour, letting to Irish-American Oil Co Ltd (s) 

281

16823/27 Gortnasate pier, Donegal, Marine Works Act (mostly water supply, water 

rates), 1909-27 (p) (ml) 

16833/27 Ballinamore & Ballyconnell DD, 1915-27 (m) 

OPW5 – 16843/27 – 16928/27 

16843/27 St Brendan’s national school, Kilmeena, Mayo, erection FS (exc, except 

no plan) (ml) 

16856/27 Custom House, Dublin, contract for mahogany partitions (wk) (s) 

16868/27 establishment: gratuity, James Byrne deceased, labourer of Dun 

Laoighaire (s) 

16876/27 Glen boatslip, Kerry (vs) 

16881/27 Beggars Bush barracks, furnishing quarters of Commandant Salsweig (s) 

16886/27 hauling lines and ropes, supplied by stores in Aldborough House (post 

office) (s) 

16918/27 Killarney garda station, vol 1: letting, alterations, additions etc (m) 

16928/27 Meenaneary national school, Donegal, erection, enlargement, 1900s to 

1920s (FS) (m) 

OPW5 – 16930/27 – 17102/27 

16930/27 Castlegrove national school, Galway, 1900-20s (ms) 

16989/27 Manus proposed DD, Clare, vol 1, routine (m) 

17006/27 establishment general: staff posts in Patents Office (vs) 

17090/27 Arklow garda station, Wicklow, works file (specs) (s) 

17091/27 Drumlish garda station, Longford, vol 1: lots preliminary works (p) (qg) 

(m) 

17102/27 Bennetsbridge garda station, Kilkenny, vol 1: preliminary (vg) (m) 

OPW5 – 17130/27 – 17300/27 

**** 

17143/27 Shannon Navigation, retirement of Mathew Reddon, dredger master (s) 

17159/27 damage to kitchen range in DMP station, Dublin Castle (s) 

17179/27 Land Act 1923, rules for registration of land and title (s) 

17187/27 lawnmowers for army use (vs) 

17188/27 GPO, Dublin, problem with joinery work (Leask letter) (g) (vs) 

17193/27 Cashel courthouse, compensation award, plans etc (m) 

17198/27 Burtonport garda station, Donegal, lease file (s) 

17209/27 supplies to SD ‘Inishirrer’ of Dept of Justice (s) 

17300/27 Griffith Barracks, Dublin, lettings to Greenmount & Boyne Linen 

Company (m) 

282

OPW5 – 17302/27 – 17372/27 

17302/27 Ministry of Labour, boot & shoe class (training centre), rere 27-29 Upper 

Merrion St (m) 

17314/27 Craigtown national school, Donegal (s) 

17338/27 Northern Boundary customs huts, Castlefinn (p) (s) 

17337/27 Barrow Drainage, access to Ardreigh Island, Athy (vs) 

17341/27 Carbury Hill station, Kildare (s) 

17345/27 Dept of Agriculture and Technical Instruction: Butter-Testing Station, 

nuisance complaint and lowered screen (s) 

17354/27 Louth election equipment, 1919-27 (m) 

17362/27 Broadford garda station, Clare, temporary premises file (s) 

17372/27 Headford garda station, Kerry, temporary premises file (qg) (m) 

OPW5 – 17377/27 – 17535/27 

**, 1AD. 

17377/27 Lower Illies national school, Donegal, lots works (FS) (p) (ml) 

17388/27 Arbour Hill national school, conversion of army school (s) 

17431/27 supply of slates for Castlebar Army Barracks (s) 

17508/27 Athea leased station (nice sketch) (s) 

17535/27 Ballyclough national school, Cork, 1905-27 (vg) (p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 17547/27 – 17689/27 

**** 

17558/27 Dunmoran DD, Sligo (ml) 

17579/27 Carnsore coastguard cottages, Wexford, wireless telegraph station (s) 

17582/27 fuel and light supplies for army, transfer to army vote (bits) (m) 

17632/27 Inland Revenue, 14-15 Upper O’Connell St, concentration of revenue 

offices (p) (m) 

17669/27 Clontarf coastguard station, Dublin, surrender (s) 

17683/27 Howth Harbour, damage to harbour by storm of August 1927 (s) 

17689/27 Government Buildings, North Block, gateway connects museum with 

offices (wk) (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 17695/27 – 17807/27 

**** 

17695/27 Stephen’s Green, Haslam Memorial (p) (s) 

17730/27 stables to rear of 93 Merrion Square, letting (s) 

17777/27 Dail Election, 1927, general polling equipment (p) (ms) 

283

17785/27 disposal of Clifden laboratory (private originally) (s) 

17795/27 County Waterford, election equipment (m) 

17801/27 Murrisk national school, Mayo, 1921-27 (p) (m) 

17807/27 Galway Customs House, alterations (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 17811/27 – 17844/27 

17811/27 Arklow Harbour, collapse of dock wall: interdepartmental committee, 

report of 1923 (vg) (p) (ml) 

17834/27 subsistence allowances etc for OPW officers (s) 

17837/27 Dublin Civic Week, 1927, pageant of industry (OPW aid) (vs) 

17826/27 Parochial Records Act, reports on parish receptacles (s) 

17838/27 Drogheda (Westgate) garda station, Louth, lease file (m) 

17840/27 Rathmullen oil fuel installation, restoration of wall (s) 

17844/27 Smithboro’ garda station, Monaghan, works file (qg) (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 17850/27 – 17906/27 

*** 

17852/27 Garda occupation of part of old gaol, Trim, requisition, vol 1 (m) 

17858/27 Ballyragget garda station, Kilkenny, vol 1: good preliminary works (saga) 

(m) 

17886/27 County Cavan election equipment (m) 

17906/27 Allenview national school, Leitrim, 1908-27 (l) 

OPW5 – 17907/27 – 17997/27 

* 

17907/27 Clough national school, Kilkenny, 1912-27 (m) 

17941/27 Kinvara garda station, Kilkenny, preliminary work, location of suitable 

site (ml) 

17955/27 Newbridge recreation ground (vs) 

17989/27 Druminardly national school, Roscommon (s) 

17996/27 carpenters in Four Courts & foreman (s) 

17997/27 Central Model Schools, Dublin, repairs and lots plans (ml) 

OPW5 – 18059/27 – 18139/27 

18059/27 Ennis garda station, Clare, reconstruction file (ext corr) (np?) (ml) 

18077/27 Slieveardagh national school, Tipperary (s) 

18085/27 Howth Harbour, accident to Edwd Hopkins, labourer (vs) 

18118/27 National Library, supply of oak catalogue cases (p) (vs) 

284

18120/27 Kilkee Board of Trade watch-hut, erection (nice sketch, p) (s) 

18128/27 Phoenix Park – public demonstration of Mul-Ray signs (vs) 

18139/27 Clonark garda station, Roscommon, reconstruction file, vol 1 (lots plans) 

9m) 

OPW5 – 18255/27 – 18347/27 

18255/27 Gortnaskeli national school, Kerry, proposed new school (s) 

18262/27 Duagh glebe, Kerry (s) 

18265/27 fishery piers and harbour, Cork, inspections, general correspondence (ml) 

18266/27 Arterial Drainage Districts, supply of rubber thigh boots, waders etc (bits) 

(m) 

18323/27 establishment: temporary messengers, 1904-27 (m) 

18347/27 Dublin Public Buildings, annual review of gas, water, electricity, 

consumption (m) 

OPW5 – 18372/27 – 18495/27 

* 

18372/27 Lough Dalla DD, Mayo, general correspondence file (ml) 

18385/27 use of steel lockers, and steel filing cabinets, (wk) (s) 

18389/27 supply of presses to District Clerk’s Department (s) 

18406/27 proposed new national school, Allen, Kildare (s) 

18413/27 segregation of Government Buildings from College of Science, vol 1 (p) 

(m) 

18437/27 Islandbridge Barracks, furnishing quarters of Comdt Farrell (s) 

18458/27 St Canice’s national school-teacher’s residence, Queens County, 1908- (s) 

18485/27 Ballinamore Customs & Excise, residential quarters, tenure (s) 

18491/27 Broadford garda station, Clare, main file no 1 (ok) (ml) 

18495/27 Collins Barracks, Cork, furnishing Capt Chisholm’s quarters (s) 

OPW5 – 18500/27 – 18607/27 

* 

18500/27 Hibernian Military School, proposed transfer of army board corps (?) (vs) 

18506/27 War Pensions Committee, Tipperary sub-committee (m) 

18510/27 applications for employment in Phoenix Park (s) 

18512/27 Griffith Barracks, furnishing quarters of Major-General Mussel (s) 

18514/27 Scoil Brighde, 10 Earlsfort Terrace (s) 

18536/27 GPO, Dublin, removal of turret clock and installation of new clock, 1882- 

1927 (s) 

18547/27 Camp garda station, Kerry, rebuilding file (vg) (ms) 

18555/27 Kilteely garda station, Limerick, rental file (m) 

285

18561/27 Gaelic League complaints regarding inscriptions in Irish in Custom House 

and in Dublin Castle etc (s) 

18607/27 Tiernaclogha national school, Mayo, 1911- (s) 

OPW5 – 18624/27 – 18817/27 

1AD 

18624/27 Dublin Inland Revenue, Beresford Place, additional accommodation, 

1909-27 (p) (m) 

18630/27 GJ Boylan, junior executive officer, file (vs) 

18650/27 Peterswell garda station, Galway, minor works (s) 

18653/27 Lisvernane garda station, Tipperry, temporary premises (s) 

18666/27 Athenry post office, garage accommodation (s) 

18671/27 GPO, Dublin, clock (vs) 

18682/27 establishment: assault on Hugh Doyle, clerical assistant to carpenter-incharge 

at Royal Hospital Kilmainham (m) 

18699/27 St Patrick’s national school, Cork (ms) 

18701/27 Crosspatrick national school (s) 

18756/27 Cork broadcasting station/Sunday’s Well Prison, letting plot (s) 

18817/27 Newtown Browne national school, Mayo (s) 

OPW5 – 18831/27 – 18913/27 

**, 1AD 

18831/27 Tullow garda station, Carlow, vol 1: rebuilding file (qg) (p) (m) 

18846/27 Government Instructional Factory, Belfast, transfer of title (s) 

18879/27 Dalkey Quarry, tenancies etc (ml) 

18909/27 War Pensions Committee Office, Wexford (m) 

OPW5 – 18914/27 – 19041/27 

****** 

18914/27 Preparatory College, general correspondence, Jan-Sept 1927, file no 2 (m) 

18916/27 Report of Town Tenant Commission, Small Divison Acquisition Act, 

1899 (s) 

18923/27 Moycullen garda station, Galway, purchase of co-op store (ml) 

18939/27 Shalvey national school, Donegal (Kilcar), exct 1922-27 (FS) (p) (m) 

1900/27 Blackrock Hospital, alterations and repairs (m) 

19008/27 WJ Thompson, employment (vs) 

19036/27 Omeath national school (s) 

19041/27 Statistical Office, erection of garage, 2 Merrion Square (s 

286

OPW5 – 19045/27 – 19131/27 

**** 

19045/27 Tullamore ex-RIC barracks, sale of old stores (vs) 

19065/27 Roche’s Stores, Cork, allocation of portion to post office etc (m) 

19078/27 Brooklawn national school, Galway, 1900-27 (m) 

19110/27 GPO, Dublin, reconstruction, contracts for windows in Block A (ok) (m) 

19117/27 Bannow coastguard station, lettings (m) 

19131/27 Coachford garda station, Cork, purchase file (m) 

OPW5 – 19165/27 – 19372/27 

****** 

19165/27 Revenue Commissioners, Clock Tower Building, Dublin Castle, vol 2: 

accommodation works (p) (m) 

19174/27 Ballylanders garda station, reconstruction file (vs) 

19248/27 Four Courts, reconstruction, accommodation for benchers etc (pg) 

(brilliant plans including full floor plans of Court previous to destruction) 

(m) 

19254/27 Castlebar Military Barracks, reconstruction, strike (vs) 

19259/27 Passage West employment exchange (ms) 

19273/27 Teacher’s Residences, Behagane, Ballycarrahan, Kerry (s) 

19280/27 Colaiste Caoimhin, folding partitions (s) 

19281/27 Duncannon convent national school, Wexford (s) 

19323/27 Soldier’s Point coastguard station, lettings (m) 

19372/27 Tarbert coastguard station, tenancies (ms) 

OPW5 – 19410/27 – 19514/27 

** 

19416/27 Nenagh River DD (m) 

19442/27 return of lights, buoys, beacons on Irish Coast (s) 

19444/27 flagstaff at Greystones, Co Wicklow (vs) 

19448/27 Moville coastguard station, Donegal, cottages (m) 

19514/27 Sallins national school, Naas, Kildare, 1910-25 (ml) 

Selection of files only from now on 

OPW5 – 19353/27 – 19795/27 

287

19353/27 County Monaghan, election equipment (m) 

19603/27 Phoenix Park – gate keeper & night watchman, main gate, Chapelizod 

(ms) 

19778/27 Metropolitan School of Art, gateway & railways (vs) 

OPW5 – 19861/27 – 20110/27 

19924/27 Long Island national school, Cork (FS) (np?) (m) 

20110/27 Collins Barracks, Cork, reconstruction of main block, soldier’s quarters 

(m) 

OPW5 – 20168/27 – 20194/27 

No file selected 

OPW5 – 20197/27 – 20430/27 

20241/27 retirement of T Morgan, gate-keeper, Phoenix Park (vs) 

20277/27 Coast Life Saving Stations, explosive stores (s) 

20295/27 Lawrence Boland, Scariff toll-collector, Shannon Navigation, gratuity (vs) 

20336/27 National Gallery, framed screen and pillar stands (s) 

OPW5 – 20463/27 – 20607/27 

20463/27 Stephen’s Green and Phoenix Park, proposed propogation beds, in one 

place (s) 

20475/27 Dundrum garda station, Tipperary, vol 2, reconstruction file (ok) (m) 

OPW5 – 20648/27 – 20735/27 

20648/27 Nobber garda station, Meath, reconstruction file, vol 1 (exct) (p) (m) 

20669/27 Dundrum Asylum fire in stores (gd p of buildings) (s) 

20680/27 information on ancient monuments in Kerry (vs) 

20731/27 Greenore veterinary station, official residence for inspector (very nice 

sketches) (p) (s) 

20735/27 window guards for Customs Huts, Blacklion, Castlefinn (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 20747/27 – 20804/27 

20758/27 Ballyconnell House, haymaking contracts (colourful) (s) 

288

20798/27 Collins Barracks, Cork, proposed junior officer’s quarters (m) 

OPW5 – 20805/27 – 20896/27 

20896/27 Phoenix Park, widening Blackhorse Lane (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 20987/27 – 21019/27 

20987/27 OPW Waterford District, office and works, 1903-27 (p) (m) 

20990/27 Dublin Custom House, contract for strong room doors etc (wk) (p) (s) 

21014/27 Ballinrobe Infantry & Cavalry Barracks, leases from 1715 (peppercorn 

rent, for ever) reproduced, Francis Cuffe second lease – cavalry barracks, 

26 th June 1776, for consideration of £1800 paid, peppercorn rent for ever, 

good sketch plans of barracks etc (m) 

21019/27 Government Buildings, North Block, occupation of rooms from 6 th Dec 

1922 (gd plans) (m) 

OPW5 - 21020/27 – 21188/27 

21068/27 Cork employment exchange, Buckingham Stores, accommodation for 

bikes and motor bikes (s) 

21126/27 Four Courts, contract for supply of teak doors etc (wk) (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 21192/27 – 21499/27 

21290/27 Irish Land Commission, alterations etc to Commissioner O’Sheil’s room 

(p) (s) 

21309/27 applications to attend university lectures while in OPW (vs) 

21331/27 state symbol for post offices, note by Leask and drawings (vs) 

21400/27 State Land Act, 1924, general advice (m) 

OPW5 – 21503/27 – 21672/27 

21589/27 Causeway garda station, Kerry, building file (ok) (p) (m) 

21624/27 DATI, Clonakilty Agricultural Station, works file (p) (m) 

21672/27 Kilmastulla DD, restoration, lots of internal disputes (ml) 

OPW5 – 21691/27 – 21740/27 

289

21725/27 Local registry of titles, general offices & Dublin, provison of safes to keep 

records, 1891-1927 (ml) 

OPW5 – 21745/27 – 21865/27 

21777/27 establishment: public and privilege holidays (vs) 

21774/27 temporary clerks, grade II (s) 

21830/27 Dublin Custom House, restoration of dome, contracts (wk) (m) 

21865/27 Collinstown aerodrome, sale of huts and property (l) 

OPW5 – 21866/27 – 21897/27 

21866/27 Dublin Castle, law library, furnishing smoking room etc (p) (ml) 

21896/27 Dun Laoighaire harbour, quarterly reports, 1927-35 (brilliant) (m) 

21897/27 Kingstown Harbour, quarterly reports, 1915-27 (brilliant) (ml) 

OPW5 - 21904/27 – 22069/27 

22069/27 cement in bulk contract, Four Courts & Custom House (vs) 

OPW5 – 22070/27 – 22221/27 

22070/27 annual estimates, harbours and navigations, 1926-28 (m) 

22077/27 High Commissioners Office, London, tax relief for legal representatives 

(s) 

22210/27 Wexford employment exchange, adaptations, 1910- (m) 

22111/27 ancient monuments, Ballynakill monastery, Offaly, vesting proposal (vs) 

22202/27 Marlboro House, Preparatory College, permanent college for non-Catholic 

students, 1890s- (ms) 

OPW5 – 22222/27 – 22245/27 

OPW5 – 22258/27 – 22565/27 

22267/27 Dunmore DD, trustees, scandalous stuff!! (m) 

22368/27 Drainage scheme with relief aspects – general (s) 

22384/27 Clonakilty Agricultural Station, works granary floor (s) 

22549/27 GPO, Dublin, contract for teak windows (wk) (vs) 

290

OPW5 – 22587/27 – 22770/27 

22587/27 Four Courts, reconstruction of Supreme Courts (wk) (p) (s) 

contains note as ‘History of Reconstruction in file and keep carefully as 

important, 1930’) 

22707/27 Lwr Gardiner St employment exchange (plans) 

OPW5 – 22804/27 – 22887/27 

22816/27 Mr G O’Grady, temporary junior drainage engineer (s) 

22887/27 Dublin, GPO, arcade shops, lantern lights etc (wk) (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 22905/27 – 22957/27 

22908/27 Fernaght garda station, Leitrim, main file (building) (m) 

OPW5 – 22994/27 – 23109/27 

22994/27 dumping rubbish in river during Barrow Drainage works (vs) 

23044/27 Dromahair garda station, Leitrim, rebuilding file, vol 1 (p) (m) 

23106/27 Ardnacrusha garda station (hut) (p) (s) 

23109/27 Coolock garda station, Dublin, vol 1, reconstruction (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 23111/27 – 23260/27 

23182/27 Metropolitan district courts, Inns Quay, Dublin, proposed alterations (p) 

(m) 

23207/27 offices of Civil Service Commissioners, 33 St Stephen’s Green, 

accommodation (ms) 

23220/27 GPO, Dublin, Block A, pavement light (vs) 

OPW5 – 23265/27 – 23285/27 

23265/27 Milltown garda station, Galway, vol 1: reconstruction (m) 

23280/27 National Library, book store, lift etc, 1907-21 (ml) 

23285/27 robbery of briquettes (s) 

OPW5 – 23308/27 – 23445/27 

23317/27 GPO, Dublin, perspective prints (invoices) (vs) 

291

23324/27 loan to local authorities, OPW to charge fees (ms) 

23408/27 Bclinch? – temporary architectural assistant (vs) 

OPW5 – 23477/27 – 23531/27 

23488/27 Under-Secretary’s Lodge, letting to Mr Sterling (USA) (p) (m) 

23529/27 Coast life saving stations, purchase of local permanent stores (vs) 

OPW5 – 23547/27 – 23596/27 

23579/27 new public offices, Kildare-Merrion St, Dublin, (p) (m) 

23596/27 Oylegate garda station, Wexford, rebuilding file (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 23602/27 – 23727/27 

23658/27 Carriganas Castle, Cork, proposed vesting (vs) 

23662/27 Colaiste Ide/Burnham House, ext file no 1, works (exct) (m) 

23689/27 Galway employment exchange, 20 Dominick St, adaptations (p) (m) 

23723/27 talks on the Irish Civil Service (s) 

OPW5 – 23778/27 – 23855/27 

23796/27 Monivea garda station, Galway, reconstruction vol 1 (p, specs) (pg) (m) 

23082/27 President’s Lancia car, sale (m) 

23855/27 American Legation, gardens and house of head-gardener (ms) 

OPW5 – 23889/27 – 23990/27 

23889/27 Land Registry, reconstruction (1924) (ok) (p) (m) 

23988/27 post offices, general: supplies to dining rooms (good ads) (bits) (m) 

23990/27 Custom House, Dublin, Chubb’s contract for two steel doors (wk) (plans) 

(s) 

OPW5 – 24020/27 – 24227/27 

24044/27 Barrow Drainage, accident to labourer, 16 th May 1927 (s) 

24081/27 Natural History Museum, redecoration (wk) (p) (s) 

24119/27 Custom House, Dublin, reconstruction, Block A (qg) (ml) 

22147/27 Stephen’s Green, erection of permanent art gallery (s) 

292

24226/27 45 Upper O’Connell St, reconstruction, preparation of bills of quantities 

(ok) (m) 

OPW5 – 24229/27 – 24357/27 

24315/27 Revenue, racecourse huts around Ireland (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 24371/27 – 24546/27 

24533/27 Ballymacgibbon carn, Mayo, proposed vesting (vs) 

24546/27 GPO, Dublin, 24, 25, 27, Henry St (wk) (plans) (ms) 

OPW5 – 24551/27 – 24746/27 

24639/27 Phoenix Park, cattle grazing (ok) (m) 

24637/27 ancient monuments near Union Hall, Co Cork (vs) 

24668/27 Barrow Drainage staff (s) 

24703/27 St Malachy’s national school, Dundalk, adaptations etc (FS) (p) (m) 

24734/27 Merryweather’s fire engines and appliances (exct ads) (s) 

24746/27 Dublin: building work and supplies (bits) (m) 

OPW5 – 24756/27 – 24794/27 

24758/27 Dundalk military barracks, commanding officer’s residence (p) (m) 

24763/27 public works and buildings, quantity surveyor’s fees (m) 

24792/27 Barrow Drainage, purchase of weirs etc, 1926-30 (m) 

OPW5 – 24818/27 – 24921/27 

24818/27 Baltimore Customs & Excise office and residence, Co Cork (ms) 

24911/27 telephones for OPW district offices (qg) (m) 

24919/27 Dunmore East, harbour-master’s house, improvements (p) (m) 

24921/27 drainage schemes, Galway general (m) 

OPW5 – 24944/27 – 25054/27 

24991/27 Ballyconnell House, farm buildings and cottages (ok) (ms) 

25054/27 acquisition of sites for garda stations on fair greens (vs) 

293

OPW5 – 25058/27 – 25125/27 

25063/27 P. McInnes, deceased, leave papers, 1909-27 (s) 

25121/27 payment to Board of Works by NI Government to maintain water gauge 

readings etc (s) 

OPW5 – 25148/27 – 25200/27 

25189/27 Pickle Point Pier, 1903-27 (m) 

25192/27 Ballyconnell House, misc papers (plan of layout) (s) 

25200/27 Ballyconnell House, joinery work (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 25201/27 – 25251/27 

25201/27 sale of huts, Ministry of Pensions Hospital, Blackrock (gd bits) (ms) 

25208/27 papers on heating, lighting etc in Custom House, Dublin (vs) 

25212/27 major extension of Kinnego national school, Donegal (FS) (p) (ml) 

25247/27 establishment: advance of salaries before Christmas (vs) 

OPW5 – 25264/27 – 25343/27 

25264/27 Ballybunion garda station, Kerry, major reconstruction file (p) (ml) 

25310/27 employment of outside architects (s) 

25314/27 Ballyfair estate, lease to Major Hickey (m) 

25343/27 Government contracts committee, agenda and minutes of proceedings, 

1927 (vg) (m) 

OPW5 – 25354/27 – 25482/27 

25375/27 use of white lead in paint, safety issues (s) 

OPW5 – 25504/27 – 25577/27 

25504/27 post offices, expenditure on subheads of votes, 1913-27 (mostly financial, 

ok) (ml) 

25577/27 Phoenix Park – water supply improvements, erection of water tower etc 

(ads) (p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 25581/27 – 25711/27 

294

25599/27 relief work: general file, 1927 (s) 

25670/27 Clonbur garda station, Galway, vol 1, preliminary works (vg) (m) 

OPW5 – 25731/27 – 25827/27 

25731/27 Piltown garda station, Kilkenny, rebuilding file (ok) (p) (m) 

25785/27 question of obligation of Board of Works to submit annual reports (s) 

25795/27 Post Offices: new work, estimates, 1928-29 (s) 

25800/27 Custom House, completion of items (wk) (vs) 

25810/27 overseers residence, Thomas Byrne, Phoenix Park (vs) 

OPW5 – 17/28 – 186/28 

17/28 GPO, Dublin, painting sub-contract (wk) (vs) GPO 

51/28 Cloyne garda station, Cork, vol 1, location of house (qg) (m) 

126/28 fishery lights on Irish coast transfer of responsibility to OPW from Dept of 

Fisheries, 1923-24 (with ads, reports, lists) (m) 

186/28 Collins Barracks, Cork, reconstruction of military hospital (m) 

OPW5 – 191/28 – 221/28 

191/28 Easkey garda station, Sligo, reconstruction file (reports etc) (pg) (p) (m) 

201/28 Dept of External Affairs, accommodation in College of Science (m) 

211/28 Ballinruddery Castle, Listowel, proposed vesting (vs) 

214/28 Arterial drainage, temporary junior engineers and draughtsmen (m) 

OPW5 – 242/28 – 349/28 

242/28 furniture for government buildings, relations between furniture branch and 

architecture branch (s) 

245/28 Governor-General’s Residence, summerhouse (s) 

295/28 temporary employees and weekly paid staff, lists names etc (s) 

OPW5 – 355/28 – 440/28 

374/28 Dublin Broadcasting Studios, photos for press (no photos on file) (vs) 

403/28 Dublin Custom House, electric light fittings (wk) (vs) 

418/28 arterial drainage, proposed bill for relief grants (s) 

295

OPW5 – 450/28 – 660/28 

494/28 coast life saving stations, rocket wagons (s) 

630/28 Dublin Custom House, additional heating, memorandum (wk) (s) 

660/28 Blackrock post office, garage (wk) (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 680/28 – 879/28 

680/28 OPW applicants for post of staff officer in Property Registration Office (s) 

768/28 Shinrone garda station (m) 

OPW5 – 882/28 – 1162/28 

969/28 Four Courts, Dublin, supply of steel sections (wk) (vs) 

1019/28 allocation of duties, Buildings Divisions 1 & 2 (vs) 

OPW5 – 1163/28 – 1363/28 

1300/28 Four Courts reconstruction, roofing East and West Pavilions (wk) (p) (s) 

1341/28 notice boards for Customs Huts (sketches etc) (s) 

1360/28 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, expenditure on vacations by British 

pensioners (ok) (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 1428/28 – 1489/28 

1429/28 eel fisheries lease to Mr A Mackey (m) 

1450/28 Waterville garda station, Kerry, reconstruction file (vg) (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 1531/28 – 1738/28 

1531/28 OPW, accounts – excess expenditure on sub-heads, 1924-27 (ok) (m) 

1543/28 establishment: temporary clerk of works, change in allocation etc (lots on 

Ballyconnell and Barrow drainages), 1926-28 (vg) (ml) 

1620/28 Land Commission, question of additional storey and lift (good plans) (s) 

1645/28 employment of E.D. Fitzroy, labourer (vs) 

1713/28 establishment: appointment & career of commissioners of OPW, J.J. 

Healy (s) 

OPW5 – 1739/28 – 1818/28 

296

812/28 repair and painting of huts, Blackrock Hospital (s) 

1818/28 Colaiste Moibhi, Glasnevin House, Dublin & Marlborough House (plans 

etc) (pg) (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 1877/28 – 1954/28 

1877/28 Smear garda station, Longford, reconstruction file no 1 (pg) (p) (m) 

1892/28 employment exchanges, accommodation, 1919-27 (vg) (m) 

OPW5 – 1957/28 – 2071/28 

1987/28 Foynes garda station, Limerick, restoration file vol II (pg) (ml) 

1992/28 Laherdane garda station, Mayo, restoration, vol 1 (exc) (p) (m) 

2012/28 Leinster House, Oireachtas, supply chairs for An Dail press room (p) (s) 

2052/28 Summer Cove/Upper Cove coast life saving station (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 2083/28 – 2218/28 

2142/28 fire extinguishers, various notes (g) (s) 

2152/28 Dundrum garda station, Dublin, reconstruction file, vol 1 (p) (m) 

2178/28 Virginia garda station, Cavan, reconstruction file (p) (m) 

2209/28 dredger ‘Sisyphus’, employment of watchman (vs) 

2217/28 appointment of M.J. Tighe, assistant architect (vg) (s) 

OPW5 – 2232/28 – 2289/28 

2255/28 Rathowen garda station, Westmeath, building file (p) (m) 

2259/28 appointment of overseer, Governor-General’s Lodge (s) 

2279/28 Killiney telephone exchange – site, minor works (qg) (s) 

OPW5 – 2335/28 – 2385/28 

2335/28 military barracks: furniture for married officers, settees etc (bits) (m) 

2360/28 gymnasium at Marlborough Hall, Colaiste Caiomhin (p) (s) 

2364/28 Oireachtas, accommodation, various schemes (p) (ml) 

2372/28 Kinnity garda station, Offaly, preliminary file (p) (m) 

2385/28 public reception for President Cosgrave, 11 th Feb 1928 (vs) 

OPW5 – 2398/28 – 2482/28 

297

2443/28 arterial drainage: proposed bill in respect of minor drainage districts, OPW 

comments (g) (m) 

2474/28 Cahirciveen garda station, Kerry, rebuilding file etc (m) 

2482/28 Haulbowline dockyard, general file, 1927-28 (m) 

OPW5 – 2535/28 – 2628/28 

2544/28 Newtownsandes garda station, Kerry, contractor criticized for poor 

reconstruction work (p) (ms) 

2580/28 British Ministry of Pensions, acquisition of Blackrock Hospital (ok) (m) 

(surrender of hospital: 21337/32) 

2583/28 Dept of Industry and Commerce, furniture for parliamentary secretary, 

Government Buildings (s) 

OPW5 – 2673/28 – 2797/28 

2673/28 Moore’s Hotel, requisition and compensation case (pg) (m) 

2756/28 fortnightly payment to clerical officers (vs) 

2797/28 Inislyre Pier, Westport, general file 1904-27 (interesting) (m) 

OPW5 – 2850/28 – 2886/28 

2886/28 Johnstown garda station, Kilkenny, vol 1, repairs and general notes (qg) 

(ml) 

OPW5 – 2900/28 – 3016/28 

2958/27 GPO, Dublin, laying of linoleum (normal) (m) 

2993/28 Garda Siochana: accommodation for supplemental units, general 

correspondence (s) 

2998/28 Law Courts, wardrobes (wk) (s) 

3008/28 Castlebar Military Barracks, dispute with masons (s) 

3013/28 proposal of Dept of Post & Telegraphs to take over services from Board of 

Works, 1911-27 (ms) 

3016/28 E O’Byrne, temporary clerk of works (s) 

OPW5 – 3021/28 – 3083/28 

3021/28 The Castle, Castlepark, Loughrea, proposed vesting etc (s) 

3058/28 Marlborough Hall, repair of range (s) 

3060/28 evaluation of ranges that burn turf (qg) (s) 

298

3073/28 Miss I Morton, clerical officer (s) 

3076/28 establishment: temporary assistant architects, various appointments (m) 

OPW5 – 3093/28 – 3170/28 

3141/28 flooding at Dromod and Roosky, evidence and suggestions to minister to 

Shannon and Rinn Rivers, Sept 1926 – Feb 1928 (m) 

OPW5 – 3178/28 – 3369/28 

3255/28 partitions and alterations, Office of National Education, Marlborough St 

(lovely plans) (s) 

3327/28 insurance in connection with liability of contracting builders for injury to 

labourers (and cases) etc (s) 

3233/28 establishment: OPW candidates for post of assistant inspector (s) 

3345/28 Lisacasey garda station, building file, new barrack (m) 

OPW5 – 3372/28 – 3536/28 

3376/28 Mrs Lucy Brown, caretaker Trinity House employment exchange (s) 

3464/28 ownership of rock cut from bed of River Barrow in drainage works (vs) 

3415/28 Wreath-laying on Collins-Griffith Memorial cenotaph by Governor- 

General (vs) 

3510/28 Ballinamore garda station, Leitrim, repairs and rental dispute, vol 1 (m) 

3511/28 McCurtain St, Cork, RIC restoration file (p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 3544/28 – 3669/28 

3590/28 Garda Siochana, plans for stations, vol II (p) (s) 

3620/28 testing part of structure of Dublin Castle, Block 12 (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 3671/28 – 3786/28 

3713/28 Maples Hotel site, night watchman (vs) 

3717/28 Stephen’s Green, summertime arrangements, employment of temporary 

constables, temporary labourers (m) 

OPW5 – 3804/28 – 3967/28 

3804/28 William Sinclair, gardener (vs) 

299

3876/28 Private Secretary’s Lodge, Phoenix Park, letting of paddocks (s) 

3890/28 Rosslare harbour, Ballygeary garda station 

3917/28 Colaiste Ide/Burnham House, purchase of additional land and gate lodge 

(s) 

3958/28 Oireachtas, furniture for deputy speaker’s room (vs) 

3967/28 Navan Road Trust, final commutation of Public Works Loan outstanding 

from 1839 (m) 

OPW5 – 3979/28 – 4135/28 

3979/28 Finea garda station, Cavan 

3992/28 Four Courts, salvage file (brilliant) (exct plans) (l) 

OPW5 – 4161/28 – 4228/28 

4171/28 Custom House reconstruction, granite, ashlar, Block partitions (wk) (p) (s) 

4180/28 Castleisland garda station, Kerry, reconstruction file (pg) (p) (m) 

4216/28 DATI, industrial annexe (Butter-Testing Station), macadamizing approach 

road (p) (m) 

4226/28 GPO, Dublin, Board of Works claim for girder, settled (wk) (s) 

OPW5 – 4278/28 – 4307/28 

4282/28 Fedamore garda station, Limerick 

4289/28 Crossakiel garda station, Meath 

OPW5 – 4356/28 – 4474/28 

4356/28 Custom House, Dublin, occupation (qg) (p) (s) 

4373/28 transfer of OPW workshops from rear of 28 Kildare St to rear of 34 

Molesworth St, Dublin (s) 

4474/28 Land Commission, rebuilding flank and rere walls of 21 Upper Merrion St 

(p) (m) 

OPW5 – 4522/28 – 4695/28 

4598/28 Command Stores, Collins Barracks, Cork, electric lighting (p) (s) 

4688/28 Marlboro Hall, Glasnevin, progress reports on Ball Courts etc (m) 

300

OPW5 – 4704/28 – 4850/28 

4707/28 Kilkenny marble for GPO, Dublin (ok) m) 

4751/28 GPO, Dublin, party wall at 30 Henry St (p) (ok) (s) 

4784/28 Collins Barracks, Cork, Command Stores, heating (s) 

4817/28 Custom House, Dublin, provision of floor covering (ok) (m) 

4822/28 Swinford garda station, Mayo, reconstruction file, vol 1 (ok) (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 4988/28 – 5006/28 

4938/28 Maam garda station, Galway, reconstruction file (qg) (p) (m) 

4984/28 Dairy Science faculty building at University College Cork (vg) (m) 

4985/28 Ballinasloe post office, general modernizing of services etc (p) (m) 

4991/28 Currency Commission site (Bank of Ireland), map of Foster Place 

(detailed) (s) 

OPW5 – 5010/28 – 5190/28 

5161/28 huts at Tallaght aerodrome (brilliant map of site) (s) 

OPW5 – 5266/28 – 5395/28 

5266/28 Tramore garda station, Waterford, repairs etc 

5289/28 GPO, Dublin, contract for bronze window (wk) (s) 

5291/28 American Legation, letting to Mr Sterling, vol 1 (vg) (p) etc (m) 

5357/28 Carrignavar garda station, Cork 

OPW5 – 5400/28 – 5595/28 

5545/28 Custom House, Dublin, reconstruction, revised estimate of cost (ok) (s) 

5412/28 Ballybofey garda station, Donegal 

5473/28 Dun Laoighaire Harbour, Sufferance Wharf, and Customs Lock-up 

(sketch) (s) 

5521/28 national schools, bridges of concrete flat roofs in exposed situations (vs) 

5526/28 Custom House, Dublin, bicycle store (vs) 

5552/28 Convoy garda station, Donegal, purchase file (m) 

OPW5 – 5600/28 – 5766/28 

5702/28 James CB McCarthy, junior executive officer (vs) 

5725/28 Howth Harbour, suggested fendering of piers (s) 

301

5766/28 Ballyduff garda station, Kerry, main file, vol 1, reconstruction works (np) 

(ml) 

OPW5 – 5770/28 – 5856/28 

5770/28 Ballyfeard garda station, vol 2, fishing buildings (p) (m) 

5773/28 Milltown garda station, Galway (s) 

5844/28 Garda Siochana, general: civil guard acquisition of premises (legislation) 

(vg) (ml) 

OPW5 – 5871/28 – 5989/28 

5972/28 Claremorris garda station, Mayo, seeking house (m) 

5975/28 Kilmacthomas garda station, Waterford, temporary premises (m) 

OPW5 – 5992/28 – 6042/28 

5999/28 St Joseph’s girls national school, Wellington St, Dublin, improvements 

(FS) (p) (ml) 

6019/28 Arterial Drainage Act, 1925, misc enquiries and correspondence, Feb- 

April 1928 (m) 

6045/28 reference to assistant architects (vs) 

OPW5 – 6057/28 – 6140/28 

6057/28 Barrow Drainage, plant and general correspondence (p) (m) 

6058/28 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, adjutant-general’s quarters, occupation by 

Garda Siochana headquarters (s) 

6094/28 Tully national school, Spiddal, Galway, lots of additions (FS) (p) (m) 

6121/28 appointment of caretakers in public offices (m) 

6140/28 church seating in Cork garrison church (specs, plans) (m) 

OPW5 – 6142/28 – 6230/28 

6174/28 Leinster House glasshouse, renewal of boiler (s) 

6201/28 Stradone garda station, Cavan, reconstruction file (p) (ms) 

6216/28 Post Offices general, telephone accommodation, new works, 1909-27 (m) 

6217/28 ancient monuments, reprint of extract from BOW annual reports (ml) 

302

OPW5 – 6233/28 – 6415/28 

6249/28 supply of grates and ranges to Garda Barracks (letter Leask etc) (m) 

6393/28 Omeath garda station, Louth, vol 1, location etc (m) 

6410/28 Clonakilty Agricultural Station, fencing of site and proposed new 

plantation (s) 

OPW5 - 6462/28 – 6536/28 

6462/28 Shrule garda station, Mayo, permanent quarters, reconstruction ex-RIC (p) 

(m) 

6468/28 Moore Park, Kilworth, Cork, administration file (m) 

OPW5 – 6559/28 – 6678/28 

6559/28 National Library, new electric book lift (lots plans, ads) (m) 

6632/28 application for post of messenger (s) 

6678/28 Elizabeth Fort garda station, Barrack St, Cork City, vol 1 (hostility to 

guards) (lots plans) (ml) 

OPW5 – 6753/28 – 6987/28 

6753/28 Kingwilliamstown garda station, Cork, vol 1 

6594/28 Barrow Drainage, pay of gangers, leading hands etc (vs) 

6895/28 Garda Siochana, general stations, July 1925 – April 1928 (vg) (ml) 

OPW5 – 7000/28 – 7079/28 

7001/28 Ballaghadereen garda station, Roscommon, main file no 1 (p) (m) 

7004/28 Ballyneety garda station, Roscommon, restoration file (RIC) (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 7088/28 – 7391/28 

7088/28 Shannon Navigation, Lough Allen canal, (and Arigna Mine Railway) (m) 

7095/28 Menlough garda station, Galway 

7167/28 accident to Capt Tyrell, of dredger ‘Fag an Bealach’ (vs) 

7355/28 Garda Siochana general, provision of shutters and iron bars for windows 

(vs) 

7373/28 Carrickmacross post office, proposed adaptation (p) (s) 

7389/28 Customs House, reconstruction, messengers enclosures (wk) (s) 

303

OPW5 – 7401/28 – 7496/28 

7444/28 Custom House, Dublin, employment of blacksmith (vs) 

OPW5 – 7498/28 – 7533/28 

7498/28 Tailteann Games, renovation of public buildings (vs) 

7516/28 Bunbeg garda station, using chief officer’s house, coastguard station 

(destroyed), works etc (p) (m) 

7521/28 Toomevara garda station, Tipperary 

7526/28 Gort garda station, Galway, adaptation of old army barracks, works etc 

(m) 

7530/28 Courtmacsherry garda station, Cork, lease etc 

OPW5 – 7547/28 – 7648/28 

7685/28 talks with Dept of Finance over transfer of Garda Siochana supplies out of 

OPW vote (ms) 

7692/28 Ballygurteen garda station, Cork, works file (p) (m) 

7709/28 Larger sites for type IV garda stations (vs) 

7725/28 Trim Model School, Meath, renovations and repairs etc (FS), (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 7726/28 – 7798/28 

7743/28 increments of salary due to OPW staff, 1928-29 (routine forms) (m) 

7778/28 Skibbereen garda station, Cork, reconstruction file, vol 1 (p) (exc) (m) 

OPW5 – 7823/28 – 7939/28 

7823/28 office window cleaning, 1882-1927 (bits) (m) 

7830/28 Tullamore garda station, Offaly 

7885/28 Michael Farrington, Dundrum Asylum, labourer (s) 

3959/28 Abbeyleix garda station, Leix, works etc (ms) 

OPW5 – 7962/28 – 8060/28 

7981/28 Dublin Castle, Ship St buildings, heating contract, dispute (ml) 

7995/28 Haulbowline, trade difference as to work to be performed by shipwright 

and engineers (s) 

304

OPW5 – 8068/28 – 8193/28 

8118/28 Kilfinane garda station, Limerick, vol 1: preliminary lease etc (m) 

8156/28 Central Heating Station, Dublin – supply of electric motor (s) 

OPW5 – 8216/28 – 8274/28 

8216/28 Cappawhite garda station, Tipperary, lease and repairs (p) (m) 

8222/28 Ennistymon garda station, Clare, temporary premises (repairs) (m) 

8225/28 Creeslough garda station, Donegal, temporary premises (ms) 

8225/28 Portumna ex-RIC barrack, Galway, rent (ms) 

OPW5 – 8317/28 – 8552/28 

8317/28 Dept of Post & Telegraphs, engineering, accommodation for motor lorries 

and motor cycles (p) (m) 

8359/28 arterial drainage: cost of excavation machine versus hand labour (s) 

8436/28 Waterford District, clerks of works (s) 

8504/28 Milford garda station, Donegal, vol 1: adaptation file (ms) 

8517/28 Custom House, fees of Mr Harkness (quantity surveyor) (vs) 

8552/28 GPO, Dublin, reconstruction, arcade roof, (specs, plans, invoices) (wk) (s) 

OPW5 – 8558/28 – 8712/28 

8566/28 erection of Law Library, Four Courts (s) 

8576/28 Cashel garda station, Tipperary, reconstruction works (p) (ex) (ml) 

8603/28 Governor-General’s demesne, retirement and replacement of Hugh 

Purcell, ganger (s) 

8712/28 DATI, Butter-Testing Station, Harcourt St, additional works (p) (ml) 

OPW5 –8724/28 – 8984/28 

8724/28 Custom House, Dublin, state warehouse, structural alterations (wk) (p) (s) 

8792/28 state symbols, 1926-28 (p) (ads) (s) 

8945/28 Thomas Martin, engineer, dredger ‘Cara na gCuan’, personnel file (s) 

OPW5 – 8987/28 – 9102/28 

8987/28 Phoenix Park hawkers, 1920-27 (bits) (ml) 

305

9041/28 maintenance of engines and boilers among OPW plant, incl Barrow 

Drainage (listed) (ms) 

OPW5 – 9112/28 – 9224/28 

9112/28 Ordnance Survey Buildings, acetylene gas apparatus, installation, 1902-03 

(ml) 

9146/28 Dromod garda station, Leitrim, reconstruction file, vol 1 (qg) (np) (m) 

9187/28 Stephen’s Green: superintendent’s lodge, drying clothes (2 plans) (s) 

OPW5 – 9246/28 – 9391/28 

9250/28 Custom House, Dublin, facilities for approach by cyclist (p) (s) 

9267/28 overhaul of four dredgers, 1927-28 (m) 

9283/28 application for post in Appointments Commission from OPW candidates 

(vs) 

9295/28 national schools, storm damage, March 1928 (m) 

9342/28 Tarbert garda station, Kerry, vol 1: preliminary stuff (m) 

OPW5 – 9426/28 – 9619/28 

9426/28 Bellacorrick garda station, Mayo, general repairs etc (ms) 

9490/28 GPO, Dublin, claim for work done, dispute (s) 

9494/28 Carrick-on-Suir garda station, Tipperary, provision of electric light (s) 

9507/28 Santry garda station, Dublin, purchase file (m) 

9510/28 Carnross garda station, Wexford, proposed new station (s) 

9607/28 Newtownbarry garda station, Wexford, lease file (m) 

9619/28 GPO, Dublin, fittings in reconstruction, memo and bits (vs) 

OPW5 – 9623/28 – 9765/28 

9623/28 Botanic Gardens, proposed new BOW workshop: erected (p) (m) 

9625/28 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, quarters occupied by Mrs Gibney (s) 

9630/28 National Library, passageway between National Library and Leinster 

Lawn (p) (s) 

9737/28 13 & 14 Earlsfort Terrace, lease file, Patent Office (m) 

9765/28 Rathcormac garda station, Cork, vol 1, preliminary works (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 9753/28 – 9864/28 

9795/28 Castlegregory garda station, vol II: alterations and additions (p) (m) 

306

9820/28 Arterial Drainage Act, 1925, rejection of schemes (vs) 

9864/28 Killorglin garda station, Kerry, vol 1: repairs and purchase (m) 

OPW5 – 9870/28 – 9944/28 

9870/28 Kilkenny (John St) garda station, vol 1, rent and works (m) 

9873/28 Tallow garda station, Waterford, vol II (m) 

9916/28 Oireachtas proposed new restaurant, kitchen, members’ rooms, 1927-28, 

vol II (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 9961/28 – 9976/28 

9961/28 Government Buildings, North Block, converted to form auxiliary strongroom 

for important papers (ms) 

9965/28 Oireachtas buildings, furniture (vol 3) (ml) 

9971/28 relief grants, proposed works, Co Clare (s) 

9973/28 Howth Harbour, accident to harbour master (s) 

9976/28 Glin garda station, Limerick, vol 1, location of site/house (5 photos, Miss 

Pegum’s House) (p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 9978/28 – 10057/28 

9990/28 Carrick-on-Suir garda station, Tipperary, temporary premises file 

10025/28 employment in Four Courts, M. Cullen, T. Farrell (s) 

10054/28 Ballyteigue DD, lots reports etc (m) 

OPW5 – 10059/28 – 10215/28 

10097/28 Cork bridewell garda station, Cork City, purchase file (old court house) 

(m) 

10185/28 Preparatory Colleges, accommodation for non-Catholic students, Marlboro 

House etc (p) (m) 

OPW5 10218/28 – 10374/28 

10218/28 National school desks, (lots ads etc), 1907-28 (m) 

10233/28 Inland Revenue, rebuilding 14 & 15 Upper O’Connell St (Leask) (p) (m) 

10235/28 Inchclearaun Church, Longford, works, inspections, 1901-28 (ml) 

10339/28 Rath at Grange, Ballyragget, Co Kilkenny, proposed vesting (rejected) 

(vs) 

10340/28 Dundalk post office, new floors & instrument room (wk) (vs) 

307

10334/28 Bray garda station, Wicklow, works file (s) 

OPW5 10423/28 – 10761/28 

10483/28 14-15 Upper O’Connell St, memo on rental value and works etc (vs) 

10566/28 Barrow Drainage scheme, consultations with Prof Meyer Peter (vs) 

10617/28 economy in government expenditure, committee, main file (exc) (m) 

10656/28 drainage districts, supply of plant (lots of good ad photos) (m) 

10761/28 Kilkenny garda station, governor’s house and Kilkenny Prison adaptations 

etc (p, exc) (ms) 

OPW5 – 10765/28 – 10999/28 

10771/28 arterial drainage minor schemes bill, 1928, OPW comments (s) (m) 

10792/28 alleged coursing of rabbits in Phoenix Park (vs) 

10936/28 Quin garda station, Clare, vol 1 (qg, incl works) (m) 

10949/28 Custom House, Dublin, water supply stoppage (vs) 

OPW5 – 11003/28 – 11148/28 

11057/28 Kilmeedy garda station, Limerick, vol 1 (qg) (p) (ml) 

11070/28 Hibernian Military School, lands and garden (interesting) (m) 

11148/28 Mountshannon garda station, Clare, main file, vol 1, repairs etc (ok) (m) 

OPW5 – 11173/28 – 11270/28 

11200/28 Wexford harbour, hire of dredger (m) 

11219/28 accommodation in Art Gallery, evidence of principal architect at official 

inquiry (p) (s) 

11222/28 Portmagee garda station, Kerry, vol 2, rebuilding file (ok) (p) (m) 

11221/28 Thurles garda station, Tipperary, no 2 station, tenure file (m) 

OPW5 – 11276/28 – 11492/28 

11308/28 Under-Secretary’s Lodge, Phoenix Park, letting to McMahon (ms) 

11342/28 National Library of Ireland, candelabra designed by Sir J. M. Deane (s) 

11354/28 Clara Castle, Kilkenny, vesting proposal (vs) 

11444/28 National Library, internal painting and decoration (s) 

308

OPW5 – 11523/28 – 11612/28 

11581/28 Ahascragh garda station, Galway, vol 1 (m) 

11595/28 Carrickmacross garda station, Monaghan, vol 1 (m) 

OPW5 – 11649/28 – 11656/28 

11656/28 Clonmel garda station, Tipperary, restoration file (vg) (p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 11679/28 – 11817/28 

11734/28 Fitzgibbon St garda station, proposed removal of sleeping cubicles (p) 

(ms) 

OPW5 – 11819/28 – 11853/28 

11832/28 Scoil Brighde, 19 Earlsfort Terrace, NUI practicing school (ms) 

OPW5 – 11878/28 – 11926/28 

11880/28 public buildings and accommodation for bicycles 

11900/28 Dooea garda station, Tipperary, restoration file (ms) 

11903/28 Ardnacrusha garda station, accommodation file (interesting) (m) 

11921/28 Ballyglass coastguard station, Mayo, purchase file (m) 

11925/28 National Gallery, redecoration (vs) 

OPW5 – 11931/28 – 12040/28 

11938/28 GPO, Dublin, vacuum cleaning, installation of plant (s) 

11997/28 Dunfanaghy garda station, Donegal (ms) 

12038/28 Ballinaskelligs Abbey, Kerry, much on sea-wall, 1899-1928 (p) (m) 

12040/28 Killala pier, Co Mayo (c.), inspections and reports (m) 

OPW5 – 12056/28 – 12098/28 

12063/28 Thomastown garda station, Kilkenny, vol 1, good repairs etc (ml) 

12067/28 Kilconly garda station, Galway, permanent quarters file 1 (ok) restoration 

(p) (m) 

12098/28 Counter notices, Post & Telegraphs (vs) 

309

OPW5 – 12100/28 – 12362/28 

12163/28 Custom House, Dublin, internal office in state warehouse (wk) (vs) 

12231/28 John Sweeney, clerical officer (s) 

12248/28 fuel and light accounts for Dept of Defence, discussion of memorandum 

respecting coal orders (s) 

12304/28 Clonmel garda station, Tipperary, main file, rebuilding 1926 (m) 

12323/28 Currency Commission, building works, Foster Place, agency service by 

OPW, refund of expenditure (vs) 

12329/28 Grangegorman military cemetery, labourers, T Campion, J Gay (s) 

OPW5 – 12408/28 – 12640/28 

12413/28 Islandeady Church & Dominican Convent, Burrishoole, Mayo (photos), 

inspections (s) 

12526/28 Multyfarnham garda station, Westmeath (lease file) (ms) 

12536/28 Islandbridge military barracks, new concrete floor - Mechanical Transport 

Workshop (m) 

122610/28 GPO, Dublin, Henry St, frontage, claims for refund, Portland stone, 

clamps (ok) (s) 

12616/28 Marlboro Hall, Preparatory College, supplies of dual desks (s) 

12640/28 Foynes Customs & Excise, 1912-28 (ms) 

OPW5 – 12648/28 – 12740/28 

12651/28 GPO, Dublin, arcade, roof painting (wk) (vs) 

12659/28 Tyrells Pass garda station, Westmeath, lease file (m) 

12714/28 Botanic Gardens, water supply, improved pressure (ads for pumps) (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 12743/28 – 12903/28 

121743/28 Doon garda station, Limerick, vol II, good maintenance etc, repairs, ext. 

(ml) 

12833/28 Doonbeg garda station, Clare, site purchase file (m) 

12873/28 Currency Commission, Foster Place, installation of telephone on site (vs) 

12886/28 Tuam garda station, Galway, vol 1, good location file etc (p) (ml) 

12903/28 Arterial Drainage Act, 1925, cost and value, free grants (m) 

OPW5 – 12904/28 – 13116/28 

12904/28 Smeem garda station, Kerry, building file (ok) (ms) 

310

12962/28 temporary messenger, P Dalton (s) 

12963/28 establishment: the late S.G. Kent (s) 

12969/28 Finea garda station, Cavan, ‘Niall’s site’ purchase file (ms) 

12998/28 Custom House, Dublin, supply of steel lockers for Customs Collector (s) 

13066/28 Currency Commission, carving of stone for doorways (vs) 

13067/28 Arterial Drainage Act, county contributions (vs) 

13108/28 Ardmore Cathedral, Waterford, works, inspections etc, 1884-1928 (ml) 

OPW5 – 13152/28 – 13281/28 

13152/28 Manister Abbey, Limerick, usual activities, 1895-1928 (m) 

13187/28 Dingle Pier extension, employment of OPW diver I. Brick, and others (s) 

13206/28 lighting arrangements at Government Buildings (and others), floodlighting 

(s) 

13222/28 Causeway garda station, Kerry, purchase file (ms) 

13232/28 Newgrange tumulus, Meath, inspections etc (m) 

13245/28 GPO, Dublin, party wall between 5 and 6 Post Office Buildings (wk) (s) 

1359/28 Revenue Commissioners, Customs Huts, Dundalk Road (m) 

OPW5 – 13287/28 – 13372/28 

13354/28 Ferns garda station, Wexford, vol 1, purchase and repairs (ml) 

OPW5 – 13374/28 – 13632/28 

13494/28 fishing harbours, general policy (vs) 

13632/28 Government Buildings, general, flying of flags (m) 

OPW5 – 13659/28 – 13744/28 

13659/28 Howth Harbour, Kilrock Quarry (m) 

13711/28 Bray garda station, Wicklow, vol II, remodeling (m) 

13743/28 Phoenix Park, venison file (m) 

OPW5 – 13745/28 – 13829/28 

13829/28 Kevin St DMP barrack, extension and adaptation of stables (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 13830/28 – 13972/28 

311

13869/28 High Commissioner’s Office, London, proposed sub-letting (ms) 

13871/28 Dundrum Asylum, cemetery plot, erection of stone cross (p) (s) 

13875/28 Phoenix Park and buildings, electric lighting (s) 

13878/28 sale of calp stones from the Four Courts (s) 

13968/28 Creeslough garda station, Donegal, general file (ok) (ms) 

13972/28 Holywood garda station, Wicklow, works file mostly (qg) (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 13986/28 – 14143/28 

14087/28 Cloonshanville Abbey, Co Roscommon, works etc (5 photos) (s) 

14089/28 Stephen’s Green, park constable, applications (s) 

14090/28 areas of unemployment, June 1927- July 1928 (brilliant) (m) 

OPW5 – 14145/28 – 14209/28 

14202/28 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Masters Quarters, furniture (m) 

14188/28 Bolton garda station, Clare, erection of hut (exct plan & photo) (m) 

OPW5 – 14231/28 – 14393/28 

14216/28 Park Superintendent’s leave of absence, judging at flower shows (s) 

14249/28 Dundalk post office, panel/statues (m) 

14263/28 Portmagee garda station, Kerry, purchase file (ms) 

14325/28 closure of Achillbeg coastguard station, 1909-16 (ml) 

14393/28 45 Upper O’Connell St, reconstruction works etc (ok) (m) 

OPW5 – 14400/28 – 14523/28 

14418/28 Drumshambo garda station, Leitrim, purchase file (m) 

OPW5 – 14353/28 – 14732/28 

14533/28 Hibernian Military School, fire in library, restoration (wk) (p) (ms) 

14732/28 Buttevant Abbey, Cork, reports, inspections, usual material, 1896-1928 

(m) 

OPW5 – 14770/28 – 14888/28 

14863/28 Barrow Drainage, pollution of Barrow at Carlow at beet factory (s) 

312

OPW5 – 14891/28 – 14999/28 

14891/28 fishing lodges, Co Mayo (Shaen Lodge, Lagduff, Burrishoole House), 

former CDB properties transferred to Land Commission, loan to Dept of 

Fisheries, for Fish Development (mostly furnishing) (ok) (m) 

14935/28 GPO, Dublin, furnishing (ok) (s) 

OPW5 – 15000/28 – 15250/28 

15000/28 Four Courts, Central Hall, painting of plasterwork of dome (wk) (vs) 

15225/28 temporary assistant architects, inspections, clerks of works (ml) 

15250/28 Four Courts restoration, correspondence from 1926-28 (ok) (m) 

OPW5 – 15252/28 – 15499/28 

15252/28 caretaker 6 Hume St, Mrs Neary, Miss Neary cleaner (s) 

15291/28 Barrow Drainage, accident to J Germaine (s) 

15390/28 JJ Healy, personnel file, commissioner 

15467/28 Collins Barracks, Cork, electricity to senior married officer’s quarters (ms) 

15499/28 Limerick City garda station, Limerick (ms) 

OPW5 – 15505/28 – 15577/28 

15517/28 Malin Head wireless telegraphic station, repairs etc (p) (m) 

15560/28 Leenane garda station, Galway, building file (ms) 

15574/28 GPO, Dublin, sale of black calp stone to J Gernon (s) 

15577/28 Glasnevin College (Colaiste Moibhi), acquisition, Preparatory College 

(Prot) (m) 

OPW5 – 15587/28 – 15783/28 

15603/28 reports etc of Carnsore Pier, Co Wexford (m) 

15678/28 Dept of Industry & Commerce, Ship St buildings, complaint from Clerical 

Association (s) 

15680/28 annual estimates, provision for urgent works, 1904-36 (m) 

15738/28 Custom House, Dublin, electric lighting, Block J & K (wk/ok) (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 15831/28 – 15939/28 

15906/28 hoarding at Henry St, Dublin GPO (vs) 

313

15918/28 Dungloe garda station, Donegal, temporary premises file (m) 

15935/28 Farranfore garda station, Donegal, rebuilding (p) (m) 

15939/28 Post Offices general, committee on accommodation and fittings (UK 

report) (m) 

OPW5 – 15940/28 – 16111/28 

15994/28 Roundstone garda station, Galway, vol 1, preliminary work (m) 

15989/28 Glengariff garda station, Cork, building file (np) (m) 

16082/28 Dundrum Asylum, Catholic Chapel works (wk) (p) (m) 

16111/28 Shannon Navigation, general administration file (ok) (m) 

OPW5 – 16112/28 – 16237/28 

16122/28 Oughterard garda station, Galway, general file, 1879-1928 (m) 

OPW5 – 16265/28 – 16372/28 

16265/28 Oulart garda station, Wexford, reconstruction file (pg) (p) (ml) 

16292/28 Phoenix Park – bands, applications etc (m) 

16364/28 fire protection arrangements at various Government Buildings (m) 

1637/28 Kilkee garda station, Clare, vol II, works etc (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 16376/28 – 16570/28 

16376/28 Beaufort garda station, Kerry, main file, vol 1 (m) 

16522/28 establishment: M J Burke seconded to Dept of Defence, several 

draughtsmen (m) 

MJ Scott appointment sanctioned 21 st March 1927, left service on nine 

weeks leave without pay, commencing 5 th Nov 1927, ‘failed to return’, 

replaced by March 1928. 

OPW5 – 16628/28 – 16837/28 

16628/28 Ramelton garda station, Donegal, vol 2, adaptation file (p) (m) 

16645/28 Templederry garda station, Tipperary, general needs file (m) 

OPW5 – 16850/28 – 16998/28 


314

OPW5 – 17005/28 – 17173/28 

17044/28 Araglen garda station, Cork (t) 

17102/28 Haulbowline dockyard, general file, Feb-Nov 1928 (m) 

OPW5 – 17175/28 – 17358/28 

17194/28 Malin garda station, Donegal, proposal to close (p) (ms) 

17239/28 Rosscarbery garda station, Cork, vol 1, adaptations etc (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 17369/28 – 17440/28 

17369/28 establishment: temporary clerks of works, change in allocation etc (m) 

17382/29 Kinlough garda station, Leitrim, vol 1, rent and works, restoration (p) (ml) 

17440/28 Government Buildings, steel plates for protective purposes (s) 

OPW5 – 17441/28 – 17446/28 

17441/28 accountant’s branch, GPO, temporary accommodation in Marlborough St 

Training College, and Dublin Castle (lots on Govt Ireland Act and staff 

changes!!) (p) (l) 

17446/28 Custom House, Dublin, Kilkenny marble (wk) (s) 

17452/28 Portumna garda station, Galway, vol 1, works (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 17482/28 – 17604/28 

17511/28 land improvement loans, general correspondence (m) 

17533/28 temporary clerk of works, application by one not interviewed (m) 

17549/28 Richmond District Asylum, Dublin, loans file, 1916-28 (m) 

OPW5 – 17607/28 – 17805/28 

17766/28 Botanic Gardens, proposed telephone for carpenter-in-charge (s) 

OPW5 – 17811/28 – 17889/28 

17811/28 Stoneyford garda station, Kilkenny, reconstruction file (qg) (np) (m) 

17826/28 Dromod garda station, Leitrim, temporary premises file (nice sketch) (ms) 

315

17237/28 Killinick garda station, Wexford, rent adaptations (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 17895/28 – 17996/28 

17916/28 Custom House, Dublin, contract for carving limestone (wk) (m) 

17917/28 Oireachtas buildings, accommodation for ministers (m) 

17972/28 Great Southern Railways, commandeered premises, claims (ml) 

OPW5 – 18009/28 – 18222/28 

18015/28 Drinagh garda station, Cork, permanent quarters file (m) 

18017/28 assistant architect assigned to district various (s) 

OPW5 – 18253/28 – 18369/28 

18257/28 Farnaught garda station, Leitrim, purchase file (s) 

18263/28 Eyrecourt garda station, Galway, vol 2, reconstruction file (qg) (p) (m) 

18299/28 Haulbowline, survey of launches (s) 

18329/28 Ballycastle garda station, Mayo, repair and works etc (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 18405/28 – 18583/28 

18468/28 Kilronan garda station, Galway, vol 1, works etc (s) 

18471/28 Cleggan garda stations, Galway (ms) 

18576/28 Hibernian Military School, memorial in church (ms) 

OPW5 – 18584/28 – 18610/28 

18584/28 Keadue garda station, Roscommon, main file, vol 1 (m) 

18604/28 national monuments, proposed legislation (m) 

18610/28 Tipperary (Scahaleen) hutments camp transfer from Dept of Defence (ml) 

OPW5 – 18616/28 – 18759/28 

18658/28 Knocktopher (Ballyhale) garda station, Kilkenny, works etc (m) 

18700/28 Garda Siochana, notice boards (ms) 

18752/28 Bere Island signal station, Cork, malicious injuries (s) 

18789/28 supply furniture to any offices, scales/grading (m) 

18952/28 Agricultural Stations, Ballyhaise water supply (m) 

316

OPW5 – 18794/28 – 18911/28 

18861/28 loan to Congested District Board (m) 

18898/28 St Stephen’s Green, Act of 1877, notes on creation of the park (ms) 

18911/28 new crane for Carrick-on-Shannon, Scariff Harbour (gd bits) (ml) 

OPW5 – 18994/28 – 19096/28 

19023/28 Industrial staff, annual leave, 1921-29 (m) 

19096/28 Arklow garda station, Wicklow, vol 1, temporary barrack (m) 

OPW5 – 19116/28 – 19361/28 

19129/28 Barrow Drainage, question of fishery weirs (s) 

19130/28 Maigue Navigation, abandonment (ms) 

19195/28 white paper by Dept Fisheries on exchanges within civil service (very 

interesting) (ms) 

19223/28 Phoenix Park – gardens attached to Governor-General’s demesne, 1925-28 

(m) 

19361/28 studies of Free State slates (vg) (m) 

OPW5 – 19368/28 – 19453/28 

19368/28 Clonark garda station, Roscommon, vol 2, building file (qg) (p) (ms) 

19383/28 Leopardstown Park Hospital, water supply (ms) 

19446/28 annual report, 1926-27, some good drafts etc (bits) (ms) 

19453/28 47 Lwr Glanmire Road, Cork City, Vol 2, repairs etc (ms) 

OPW5 – 19466/28 – 19580/28 

19466/28 Royal Irish Academy, renovations in crypt etc, (5 floor plans) (ms) 

19494/28 Turbary problems in drainage schemes (s) 

19528/28 General Bird’s quarters, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, mostly furniture 

(interesting) (ml) 

19543/28 Teelin Pier, Donegal, inspections and repairs (s) 

19547/28 Dun Laoighaire Harbour, employment of painter, Thomas King (s) 

19574/28 Stephen’s Green, parking of cars (ms) 

19580/28 candidates from OPW going for position as assistant inspector of taxes (s) 

317

OPW5 – 19581/28 – 19648/28 

19581/28 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, greenhouse in minister’s garden, repairs to 

heating boiler (s) 

OPW5 – 19652/28 – 19712/28 

19691/28 Enfield garda station, Meath, lease file (m) 

19697/28 Dunmore ex-RIC barracks, disposal 

19712/28 Ballyconnell House Preparatory College, works file (p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 19755/28 – 19893/28 

19785/28 Preparatory Colleges, Tourmakeady (contract file) (plans, photos) (m) 

19808/28 Leopardstown Park Hospital, proposed married quarters (s) 

19809/28 GPO, Vartry water supply (s) 

19858/28 new military barrack, Limerick, proposed residence for Col Reynolds (p) 

(m) 

19893/28 Killybegs Pier, Donegal, 1896-1928 (lots good bits) (m) 

OPW5 – 19929/28 – 19999/28 

19929/28 Kinvara ex-RIC barrack, purchase, compensation award (s) 

19942/28 reports on ladders in government buildings, mainly lists (m) 

19952/28 accommodation and store for Dept of External Affairs, Government 

Buildings (p) (s) 

19972/28 disinfecting boxes, Carlisle Pier and hut (s) 

OPW5 – 20,000/28 – 20077/28 


OPW5 – 20094/28 – 20220/28 

20168/28 Clogher Head, inspections etc, 1896-1928 (m) 

20195/28 Colaiste Moibhi, Glasnevin House, and Marlboro House, lots supplies 

including piano (s) 

OPW5 – 20223/28 – 20285/28 

318

20254/28 obituary of RE Forde, clerical officer, deceased, personnel file (s) 

20264/28 Bangor-Erris garda station, Mayo, preliminary general works (p) (ms) 

20265/28 Rockfield garda station, Roscommon, mostly lease file (some plans) (m) 

20285/28 DMP, rents etc, Irishtown, Booterstown, Terenure, Chancery Lane (m) 

OPW5 – 20306/28 – 20394/28 

20306/28 establishment: appointment of junior executive officers, 1925-28 (m) 

20337/28 government contracts committee, preference for Saorstat traders (vs) 

20339/28 Newmarket-on-Fergus garda station, Clare, lease, repairs file (s) 

20357/28 Islandbridge barracks, mechanical transport workshops, lots improvements 

(p) (m) 

20384/28 Pettigo garda station, Donegal, purchase file (m) 

OPW5 – 20431/28 – 20470/28 

20431/28 annual estimates (J1 and J2), 1929-37 (mostly financial, drainage, good 

bits) (ml) 

20433/28 Leitrim garda station, Leitrim, reconstruction file, vol 1, works (vg) (np) 

(m) 

20451/28 Royal Hibernian Military School, renovations, preparation of quarters for 

officers (ml) 

20458/28 Collins Barracks, Cork, perambulation (vs) 

20470/28 transfer to OPW staff within office (vs) 

OPW5 – 20484/28 – 20546/28 

20505/28 Robertstown garda station, Kildare, main file, general works and repairs 

(p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 20558/28 – 20592/28 

20558/28 Shannon Navigation, tonnage tables of boats weighed (ml) 

20585/28 Athleague garda station, Roscommon, temporary premises (rectory) (ms) 

20592/28 Rhode (Rathmoyle) garda station, Offaly, vol 1 (acquisition mainly) (m) 

OPW5 – 20595/28 – 20693/28 

20612/28 Pickle Point pier, Sligo-Belmullet steamer service, 1922-29 (m) 

20636/28 stages erected in Zoo Pond in 1924, Aonach Tailteann team, diving 

platform, 1924 (ms) 

319

20697/28 Revenue Dept, 32 Nassau St, Dublin, office partitions, works etc (m) 

OPW5 – 20699/28 – 20788/28 

20699/28 transfer of files to Northern Ireland (enormous list) (ml) 

20711/28 arterial drainage, daily and hourly rates on Barrow Drainage (s) 

20765/28 Riverstown DD, Westmeath, renovation etc, works (pg) (ml) 

20771/28 Kerrykiel garda boathouse, Donegal (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 20801/28 – 20861/28 

20801/28 Monaghan post office, various works (p) (ms) 

20815/28 Owenmore drainage scheme (Sligo), claims for compensation (interesting) 

(m) 

20836/28 Dublin Customs House & Custom House Dock, acquisition of 

reversionary interest (ml) 

20837/28 Colaiste Moibhi, Glasnevin, proposed purchase of playing field (s) 

20842/28 Custom House, Dublin, National Health Insurance Commission, 

complaints (s) 

OPW5 – 20864/28 – 20999/28 

20869/28 Dun Laoighaire harbour, ‘Fag an Bealach’ dredger, overhaul, 1929 (s) 

20909/28 Currency Commission, contract for lantern lights & dome (s) 

20984/28 Ballintubber garda station, Roscommon, permanent quarters file, works 

etc (ex-RIC barracks) (p) (m) 

20999/28 Tourmakeady Preparatory College, caretaker, inspections (vs) 

OPW5 – 21001/28 – 21122/28 

21002/28 Inland Revenue, 14-15 Upper O’Connell St, contract for steelwork (m) 

21055/28 Agency services for UK, recovery of cost, Dept of Industry and 

Commerce, Local Government Board (ms) 

21067/28 Garda Siochana general, glass panel in exterior doors of barracks, supply 

of door chains (s) 

21074/28 Oireachtas restaurant, installation of water boilers (vs) 

21088/28 Phoenix Park, motor races, 1929, plans and preparations (m) 

21118/28 Munster Institute, Cork, proposed reception room (ms) 

21122/28 land loans, inspectorial staff (lots bits) (m) 

320

OPW5 – 21123/28 – 21204/28 

21129/28 consideration of traffic strains on building in cities (vs) 

21135/28 segregation of Government Buildings from College of Science, report on 

safeguarding public buildings (p) (ml) 

21204/28 Ardglass Harbour, hire of ‘Saxifrage’ to Northern Ireland (m) 

OPW5 – 21223/28 – 21319/28 

21227/28 Garda Siochana housing, type 4 plans for stations, 1925-31 (vg) (p) (m) 

21227/28 Film Censor’s Office, 34 Molesworth St, provision of equipment, 

projectors etc (nice ad) (ms) 

21228/28 Dail Eireann, accommodation for the opposition (wk) (p) (s) 

21234/28 Currency Commission, water main for fire protection (s) 

21262/28 Meenbanad national school, Donegal, erected 1923-28, works file (p) (ml) 

21264/28 national schools, statements in newspapers, type plans (exc) (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 21321/28 – 21338/28 

21367/28 arterial drainage works, order of waders and brogues (vs) 

21433/28 bilingual nameplates for offices, Custom House, Dublin (p) (s) 

21523/28 ancient and national monuments in Mayo, Achill Island (np) (vs) 

21528/28 National Library, further protection (exhibitions) railings, incl S&S details 

(plan) (s) 

21538/28 OPW outdoor staff, uniforms supplied (samples) (bits) (m) 

OPW5 – 21545/28 – 21773/28 

21545/28 Collins Barracks, Cork, blinds and curtains, Chaplains Quarters (s) 

21586/28 Custom House, Four Courts, ruins, sale of scrap metal (m) 

21675/28 Castlecomer anthracite beans (vs) 

21758/28 Ship St barracks, adaptation to government offices (ms) 

21773/28 annual estimates, ancient and national monuments (separate), 1907-31 

(exc) (m) 

OPW5 – 21779/28 – 21884/28 

21830/28 Newmarket-on-Fergus drainage scheme, Clare (interesting reports of 

hearings) (m) 

21866/28 Donaghmore Church, Tipperary, inspections and works, 1883-1928 (m) 

21884/28 Spiddal garda station, Galway, vol 1, general (p) (m) 

321

OPW5 – 21893/28 – 21992/28 

21903/28 Ballyquin national school, Kerry, works, 1921-28 (p) (ml) 

21914/28 Haulbowline dockyard, disposal of surplus machinery & scrap (ml) 

2928/28 Monasterevan garda station, Kildare, misc works vol 2 (vs) 

21959/28 Cavalry exercising illicitly in Phoenix Park (s) 

21992/28 45 Upper O’Connell St, electric lighting contract (wk) (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 21996/28 – 22105/28 

22001/28 Currency Commission, banking chamber, grilles etc (wk) (s) 

22009/28 Haulbowline Dockyard, accident to P McCarthy, boilerman, John Lane (s) 

22074/28 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, old mulberry tree (s) 

22093/28 Garda Siochana general, supply of ranges, grates, sanitary fittings for 

stations (lots bits) (m) 

OPW5 – 22116/28 – 22237/28 

22116/28 civil service dramatic society, temporary accommodation 

22158/28 F J Boylan, leave papers (vs) 

22182/28 Dept of Finance, supply of presses, and pigeon-hole fixtures (p) (ms) 

22228/28 Ballycotton coast life saving station (Industry & Commerce) (ok) (map) 

(vs) 

22230/28 Ardmore coast life saving station (Industry & Commerce) (ok) (ms) 

22237/28 Dun Laoighaire Harbour, damage survey to ‘Sisyphus’, Wexford Harbour 

(m) 

OPW5 – 22253/28 – 22315/28 

22253/28 temporary messengers, cleaners, furnace attendants, wage rates etc (s) 

22255/28 post of controller of property belonging to Dept of Industry & Commerce, 

OW candidates (s) 

22256/28 Public Record Office, leaking of roof of basement vaults (vs) 

22291/28 Sligo-Belmullet, steamship service, maintenance and repair of SS Tartar, 

1922-29 (ml) 

22306/28 boiler attendants etc, Custom House, Dublin (and heating system) (s) 

22312/28 Colaiste Moibhi, Glasnevin, kitchen equipment etc (s) 

22315/28 Colaiste Moibhi, Glasnevin, furniture requisitions (s) 

OPW5 – 22323/28 – 22433/28 

322

22323/28 contracts in Saorstat manufactured articles, inquiries, reports, lists (m) 

22343/28 GPO, Dublin, arcade shops, roofs (wk) (vs) 

22400/28 Custom House, Dublin, copperwire ground (wk) (vs) 

22407/28 Manor St, former garda station, Dublin, lease file (m) 

22410/28 Ballinderry garda station, Roscommon, rent, repairs (ms) 

22422/28 Clogherhead garda station, Louth, lease file (ms) 

22433/28 accommodation for chief state solicitor, no 2 House, Dublin Castle, 1922- 

28 (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 22439/28 – 22565/28 

22506/28 45 Upper O’Connell St, heating contract (wk) (s) 

22539/28 state symbols (reproduction of Swedish heraldry office) (sketches) (s) 

22562/28 St Michael’s national school, Keogh St (barracks conversion), 1922-28 (p) 

(ml) 

OPW5 – 22568/28 – 22740/28 

22637/28 Mr Jones assistant architect, rearrangement of OPW districts, 1928 (vs) 

22682/28 compulsory purchase of land by government, property legislation (exct) 

(m) 

22670/28 Custom House, reconstruction, plastering Blocks J & K (wk) (p) (ms) 

22704/28 Dunmore garda station, Galway, building file, vol 1 (g) (m) 

22727/28 Currency Commission, window-cleaning arrangements (vs) 

22723/28 war graves in Ireland, letters from ‘attached officer’ (m) 

OPW5 – 22761/28 – 22796/28 

22761/28 Buncrana pier, correspondence 1925-1928 (m) 

22763/28 fuel and light, general correspondence/estimate summaries (vg) (ml) 

22764/28 Liscannor harbour, laying rail on the pier, 1905-06, 1927-28 (m) 

22796/28 agency services for HM Government, estimates & expenditure, 1927-28 

(ok) (m) 

OPW5 – 22802/28 – 22902/28 

22816/28 furniture inventories from Private Lodge, Under-Secretary’s Lodges, 

1920- (ms) 

22848/28 Banagher ex-RIC barrack, disposal (ms) 

22873/28 Clones garda station, Co Monaghan, adaptation file, works (np) (m) 

22884/28 Colaiste Caoimhin, drainage of surface water (s) 

323

OPW5 – 22904/28 – 23018/28 

22927/28 Glin garda station, Limerick, vol 2 (more works) (p) (ms) 

22957/28 Revenue Dept, accommodation in Dublin Castle, vol 1, 1926-28 (m) 

22960/28 ancient monuments in Leinster (vs) 

22961/28 Drum Church, Co Roscommon, vesting report (vs) 

22967/28 establishment: subsistence allowances and travelling payments, 1924-29 

(m) 

23013/28 Roscommon garda station, Roscommon (superintendents residence, file 1) 

(plans, photos) (former RIC Co Inspector’s Residence) (m) 

23018/28 Carrigans garda station, Donegal, purchase file (ms) 

OPW5 – 23030/28 – 23101/28 

23038/28 Contracts, conditions of contract, disability clause (mostly routine) (ml) 

23052/28 establishment: juror’s list (address of everyone in OPW, 1924-28) (ml) 

23061/28 national school general, desirability of architect’s conferring with school 

managers (vs) 

23101/28 Pallas garda station, Limerick, district HQ, main file, some works (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 23105/28 – 23198/28 

23105/28 Stradbally garda station, Waterford, repairs file (ms) 

23164/28 Castlebar infantry barracks, reconstruction, 1927-29 (mainly dispute with 

Castlebar convent over intrusive window) (np) (ms) 

23168/28 Killarney School of Housewifery, fuel and light (m) 

23194/28 Mountcharles garda station, Donegal, vol 1, restoration works (m) 

OPW5 – 23200/28 – 23336/28 

23211/28 Claremorris ex-RIC barracks, Mayo, lease site, ruins (m) 

23218/28 Ballyshannon garda stations, Donegal, main file (m) 

23312/28 Crown Alley, partition in auxiliary switchroom (vs) 

OPW5 – 23345/28 – 23488/28 

23388/28 Currency Commission, disposal of currency note packing cases (vs) 

324

OPW5 – 23495/28 – 23617/28 

23506/28 RIA: question of OPW maintenance of furniture (vs) 

23579/28 Brosna (Ferbane Division) drainage district, general correspondence file 

(good bits) (m) 

23617/28 Ballyfeard garda station, Cork, purchase of extension file (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 23630/28 – 23687/28 

23648/28 Blackrock Hospital, electricity supply 

23687/28 Clontarf automatic telephone exchange, additional works (wk) (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 23689/28 – 23792/28 

23730/28 Barrow Drainage, valuation by P. K. Walsh (s) 

23753/28 Enniscorthy garda station, Wexford, lease file (ms) 

OPW5 – 23846/28 – 23989/28 

23846/28 Harbour Master’s House, Dunmore East, improvements (wk) (s) 

23847/28 regulations for dispatch of telegrams in public service (bits) (m) 

23858/28 arterial drainage –estimates – purchase of machinery, 1928-33 (useful bits) 

(ms) 

23883/28 Ballyjamesduff garda station, Cavan, permanent file (ms) 

23888/28 Kilconnell garda station, Galway, lease file (m) 

23951/28 Burroughs Machine operator, establishment, Miss J.M. Healy (s) 

OPW5 – 24026/28 – 24070/28 

24026/28 Ballinabola garda station, Wexford, purchase file (m) 

24039/28 Ballymote garda station, Sligo, permanent file, vol 2, ex-RIC (ok) (m) 

24045/28 Cahirciveen garda station, Kerry, rebuilding file (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 24071/28 – 24225/28 

24071/28 St John’s Road Post Office Factory petrol tank (pump) (s) 

24094/28 matriculation examinations, NUI, loan of desks to county centres (m) 

24144/28 Athlone garda station, Westmeath, vol 1, works (p) (m) 

24208/28 land loan, estimate summaries, 1925-28, effect of setting up of A.C.C. (m) 

24210/28 W Galvin, leave papers (discussion of his problems with TB (s) 

325

24225/28 Dublin Castle overseer, death of D Munro, appointment of J Thornton, 

1906-28 (s) 

OPW5 – 24321/28 – 24287/28 

24231/28 Milford garda station, Cork, main file, repairs etc (m) 

24233/28 Connolly garda station, Clare, vol II (s) 

24240/28 Cork Model School, cloakroom accommodation (floor plan) (m) 

24246/28 Island Bridge barracks, army mechanical transport HQ, general file 1 (p) 

(m) 

24287/28 Kingstown Harbour, harbour master’s assistant, appointments (ms) 

OPW5 – 24317/28 – 24462/28 

24319/28 Under-Secretary’s Lodge, Phoenix Park, stabling application of T Pauling 

(p) (s) 

24323/28 Glenties garda station, Donegal, vol 1, repairs and general correspondence 

(m) 

24390/28 hire of plant, OPW works (s) 

24452/28 Botanic Gardens, electric lighting BOW store (wk) (p) (s) 

24462/28 State Lands Act, 1924, routine (m) 

OPW5 – 24471/28 – 24607/28 

24475/28 Currency Commission, electric power supply cable (vs) 

24481/28 Tulla garda station, Clare, vol II, main file, lease/repairs etc (p) (ms) 

24483/28 Kildimo garda station, Limerick, lease etc file (ms) 

24539/28 supply of counter for registry office, Custom House, Dublin (ok) (p) (vs) 

24570/28 Government Contracts Committee, examination of expenditure on 

materials (s) 

24606/28 Preperatory College, Glasnevin House adaptations etc, memos and plans 

(m) 

OPW5 – 24610/28 – 24731/28 

24610/28 gas and electric radiators for office heating (bits) (m) 

24614/28 Killeagh Airship Station, Cork, disposal of materials (fascinating sketches 

of steelwork for sale) (p) (m) 

24645/28 relief telephone exchange in Government Buildings (p) (ms) 

24648/28 post office, removal of old symbols (vs) 

24723/28 NLI, proposed standard shelving (p) (s) 

326

OPW5 – 24732/28 – 24825/28 

24732/28 information on Irish National Monuments for Bureau of League of 

Nations, summary of work (s) 

24757/28 Oireachtas, new restaurant (lots plans) (g) (ml) 

24762/28 Collins Barracks, Cork, tenders for Central Block (soldier’s quarters) (m) 

24768/28 Munster Institute, proposed isolation rooms for sick students (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 24826/28 – 24901/28 

24826/28 trespass notice for government property (s) 

24839/28 Santry garda station, Dublin, temporary file (m) 

24895/28 Garda Siochana barracks, Newmarket, Cork, building file (p) (m) 

2490/28 schedules of plant (boilers etc) in charge of BOW (good bits) (ml) 

OPW5 – 24902/28 – 25178/28 

24902/28 Garda Housing: general correspondence, July-Dec 1928 (g) (p) (m) 

24991/28 Colaiste Moibhi, proposed hardball court and tennis courts (map) (s) 

25010/28 Adare garda station, Limerick, general, main file (qg) (m) 

25049/28 Barrow Drainage, consideration of drains belonging to Grand Canal 

Company (s) 

25148/28 High Commissioner’s Office, London, York House, tenants, agreements 

etc (m) 

25155/28 Under-Secretary’s Lodge/Gate Lodge, gas installation (s) 

OPW5 – 25204/28 – 25360/28 

25237/28 Collins Barracks, Cork, Command Stores, shelving, racks etc (sketches) 

(ms) 

25268/28 Dun Laoighaire harbour, shelter on East Pier (p) (s) 

25322/28 Ballyvary garda station, Mayo, construction file (g) (p) (m)] 

25325/28 Silvermines garda station, Tipperary, temporary premises file (m) 

25350/28 Botanic Gardens, fuel and light (wk) (vs) 

OPW5 – 25403/28 – 25634/28 

25403/28 conversion of laundry in Governor-General’s Residence into Cabra garda 

station (p) (m) 

25408/28 Roscrea garda station, Tipperary, lease file (m) 

25150/28 new bathroom in Laundry Gate Lodge, Phoenix Park (p) (s) 

327

25588/28 Thomas O’Reilly gas fitter (vs) 

25607/28 Dun Laoighaire harbour, shelter on West Pier (p) (vs) 

OPW5 – 25642/28 – 25853/28 

25642/28 Rathowen garda station, Westmeath, purchase and temporary premises 

(m) 

25644/28 Castlerea garda station, Roscommon, works file (g) (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 2585/28 – 26137/28 

25903/28 Dail, new stairway to public stairway (p) (s) 

25933/28 Garda stations considered unsatisfactory on inspection (m) 

26047/28 MacMahon occupation of Private Secretary’s Lodge (ms) 

26130/28 Mountshannon garda station, Clare, purchase file (s) 

26137/28 Glenville garda station, Cork, reconstruction file (ok) (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 26185/28 – 26134/28 

26185/28 new employment exchange, Buckingham Stores, Cork (m) 

26187/28 progress reports and statistics relating to drainage schemes, 1928-29 (m) 

26284/28 establishment: temporary clerks of works, 1926-27 (m) 

26308/28 Castletown garda station, Westmeath, temporary premises (s) 

26343/28 GPO, Dublin, monthly review of expenditure, Blocks A-D, 1928 (wk) (vs) 

26350/28 Clonakilty school, fattening shed for cattle (s) 

26362/28 Four Courts, reconstruction, plastering of pavilions (bits) (wk) (vs) 

OPW5 – 26386/28 – 26437/28 

26932/28 Islandbridge barracks, erection of mechanical transport HQ, works, pt 2 

(ok/wk) (p) (m) 

26393/28 Convoy garda station, Donegal, building file 

26408/28 Suck drainage - general correspondence, 1927-28 (vg) (m) 

26433/28 coal delivery dockets, lovely letterheads (s) 

26437/28 Arterial Drainage Act, 1925, general file no 3 (m) 

OPW5 – 15/29 – 109/29 

15/29 Government Contracts Committee, minutes of meetings, Aug 1928-Jan 

1929 (m) 

35/29 Kiltyclogher garda station, Leitrim, property file (s) 

328

36/29 Thurles garda station, main vol 1, repairs, lease, works (m) 

71/29 Crown Alley telephone exchange, repairs etc (wk) (s) 

82/29 DMP, College St Barracks, erection of store for bicycles (wk) (p) (s) 

107/29 new works, procedure for obtaining finance sanction for proposed new 

works (ms) 

OPW5 – 138/29 – 247/29 

197/29 Dunmore East, fatal accident to captain of SS Manifold (crushed) (vs) 

229/29 Film Censor’s Office, 34 Molesworth St, insurance (bits) (ms) 

232/29 Currency Commission, electricity and water supply (vs) 

247/29 Barrow Drainage Act, 1927, commentary on development scheme (vg) 

(ms) 

OPW5 – 258/29 – 310/29 

258/29 renting of stores no. 6 & 7, Howth Harbour (Mays) (ml) 

275/29 OPW arterial drainage branch, 6 Hume St, rearrangement and heating etc 

(p) (ms) 

277/29 OPW forms of account, revisions and drafts (bits) (ms) 

300/29 accommodation for conconcentration of Endowed Schools Branch & 

Industrial Schools Branch (Dept of Education) (ms) 

303/29 Botanic Gardens, proposed bridge on mill-race (p) (s) 

309/29 Collinstown Aerodrome, lettings (ms) 

310/29 Islandbridge Barracks, mechanical transport workshops, electric lighting 

(wk) (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 366/29 – 599/29 

366/29 45 Upper O’Connell St, reconstruction (p) (ms) 

373/29 Hibernian Military School, maintenance by OPW, lockers and attendants 

(m) 

540/29 Moyvore garda station, Westmeath, acquisition of premises (ok) (s) 

551/29 National Gallery, proposed transfer of autograph collection and cases to 

NLI (vs) 

OPW5 – 600/29 – 753/29 

637/29 Buttevant garda station, Cork, reconstruction file (np) (ms) 

650/29 complaint re artificial lighting in Custom House, Dublin (vs) 

651/29 GPO, Dublin, shopping arcade, lettings etc (ok/wk) (p) (ms) 

329

753/29 Customs & Excise, 1 Beresford Place, 1907-28 (interesting office stuff) 

(ml) 

OPW5 – 819/29 – 942/29 

819/29 Post Office Factory, St John’s Road, supply of ? (vs) 

866/29 Colaiste Caoimhin, Marlboro House, works file no 2 (p) (m) 

909/29 Blackrock Hospital, abolition of no 2 kitchen (wk) (p) (s) 

913/29 supply kitchen range to officer’s mess, Garda Siochana Depot (lovely 

sketch) (s) 

920/29 Governor-General’s Residence, articles left behind on evacuation by last 

Lord Lieutenant in 1922 (s) 

934/29 Revenue Dept, Dublin Castle, betting tax, storage accommodation, (p) 

(ms) 

942/29 national school-teacher’s residences, general issues, correspondence and 

plans, 1916-29 (exct) (m) 

OPW5 – 946/29 – 1020/29 

946/29 Shannon Development Power Scheme, Parteen Villa, military protection 

post (bits) (ml) 

1005/29 Governor-General’s Residence, proposed laundry, installation of 

machinery (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 1022/29 – 1130/29 

1022/29 Athenry Agricultural Station (lands etc), renovation and additions to gate 

lodge (wk) (p) (s) 

1037/29 Croghan garda station, Roscommon, purchase file (Newford House) (m) 

1067/29 Corofin garda station, Clare, building file vol 1 (np) (m) 

1099/29 proposed Cooraclare garda station, Clare (ms) 

OPW5 – 1134/29 – 1281/29 

1189/29 College Road garda station, Cork, vol II (great letters) (s) 

1193/29 Farranfore garda station, Kerry, temporary premises file (s) 

1254/29 Islandbridge military barracks, Army Mechanical Transport HQ, general 

file 2 (s) 

OPW5 – 1295/29 – 1398/29 

330

1295/29 Cloghane garda station, Kerry, temporary file, repairs etc (m) 

1297/29 Haulbowline, closure of garda station (s) 

1299/29 Cashel garda station, Tipperary, lease file (m) 

1307/29 Gorey post office (class 1), site purchase file (photos) (ms) 

1320/29 Ballygeary/Rosslare Harbour coastguard station, Wexford, works (ms) 

1348/29 Barrow Drainage, Athy office staff and other memos (vs) 

1390/29 Cloonfad garda station, Roscommon, temporary file (and repairs) (ms) 

1398/29 Donard garda station, Wicklow, lease and works, vol II (m) 

OPW5 – 1406/29 – 1689/29 

1476/29 Dept of Local Government, Custom House, request for cross-ventilation 

(s) 

1602/29 Custom House, reconstruction, sale of old granite in Custom House dock 

(vs) 

1623/29 rates on government property/Public Buildings – internal memo (s) 

1680/29 establishment: valuers for assessment in compensation cases (3) (s) 

OPW5 – 1695/29 – 1735/29 

1695/29 Dowra garda station, Cavan, vol 1, works etc, (courthouse plans) (ml) 

1700/29 Borrisoleigh garda station, Tipperary, vol 1, lease and works etc (m) 

1718/29 Four Courts and Custom House, sale scrap iron vol 2, file (lots bits) (m) 

OPW5 – 1737/29 – 1849/29 

1777/29 Dundrum RIC barracks papers (Tipperary) (p) (s) 

1780/29 destruction of confidential waster paper from government offices (vs) 

1849/29 Ballyshannon – Northern Boundary Customs Hut (s) 

OPW5 – 1880/29 – 1928/29 

1880/29 annual returns of un-established employees (over 60), 1927 (m) 

1888/29 Ballyhean garda station, Mayo, building file (vg) (p) (m) 

1890/29 Feakle garda station, Clare, building file (p) (m) 

1904/29 GPO, Dublin, shops claim for rent (& retention) (s) 

OPW5 – 1929/29 – 2131/29 

1933/29 Colaiste Caoimhin gates and railings (p) 

2030/29 Banteer garda station, Cork, building file (m) 

331

2044/29 G McGuirk, establishment, ganger and labourer (s) 

2045/29 Howth Harbour, electric lighting contract (p) (m) 

2085/29 Colaiste Brighde/Ballyconnell House, repair of greenhouses (s) 

2092/29 Barrow Drainage, Kildare Board of Health resolution (re labour) (s) 

2131/29 Murrisk garda station, Mayo, lease and works (p) (m) 

OPW5 - 2134/29 – 2224/29 

2134/29 Ennis garda station, Clare, accommodation for supplemental forces (p) 

(m) 

2224/29 Limerick military barracks, electric lighting contract/part of reconstruction 

papers (p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 2230/29 – 2320/29 

2230/29 Oola garda station, Limerick, vol 1, works file (p) (m) 

2231/29 Bunclody garda station, Wexford, lease, compensation, works (g) (p) (m) 

2320/29 Phoenix Park Act 1925, detailed discussion etc (vg) (m) 

OPW5 2326/29 – 2396/29 

2326/29 Kiltyclogher garda station, Leitrim, adaptations, temporary premises, vol 1 

(p) (ml) 

2335/29 Haulbowline garda station, Cork, closure (s) 

2944/29 Dublin Custom House, plastering (wk) (vs) 

2351/29 parking motor vehicles at government offices (s) 

OPW5 – 2422/29 – 2497/29 

2422/29 establishment: deductions from salaries/insurance policies (s) 

2433/29 Government Buildings South Block – occupation from Dec 1922, 

allocation of rooms etc (vg) (ml) 

2473/29 Derrynane beacon, Co Kerry, 1906-29 (p) (ml) 

2496/29 Mullaghduff national school, Donegal, works (FS) (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 2503/29 – 2636/29 

2503/29 Mountmellick labourers, Barrow Drainage (vg) (ml) 

2518/29 Colaiste Caoimhin, Marlboro Hall, exhange of land (maps) (m) 

2576/29 Garda Siochana, general fuel and light allowances (bits) (m) 

332

2553/29 Caherrconnmaun (dolmen) Clare and other monuments (excavations etc) 

(s) 

2636/29 Public Works Office estimates, draft figures, analyses etc, early 1930s (m) 

OPW5 – 2654/29 – 2736/29 

2680/29 Tullogher (Listerlin) garda station, Kilkenny, purchase file (m) 

2713/29 Owenmore drainage, compensation claim over Scanlon (s) 

2130/29 Northern Boundary Customs Hut, supply of keys (s) 

OPW5 – 2746/29 – 2828/29 

2750/29 Foxford garda station, Mayo, permanent premises file, works, plans etc 

(ml) 

2775/29 Cahore drainage district, 1915-29, lots reports etc (ml) 

2828/29 Haulbowline, allegations of corruption of Edward Burke (s) 

OPW5 – 2878/29 – 2988/29 

2898/29 Clonnel garda station, Tipperary, sound-proofing floors married quarters 

(p) (s) 

2906/29 Freefort garda station, Donegal, reconstruction file (ok) (p) (ms) 

2907/29 Newtownmountkennedy garda station, Wicklow, lease file (m) 

OPW5 – 3020/29 – 3062/29 

3020/29 Colaiste Ide, Burnham House, file no 2 (extension) (lots plans) (ml) 

3026/29 coal contract, William Callier, Bray, 1925-28 (ok) (bits) (m) 

3056/29 Knockloughra national school, Mayo, extensions (FS) (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 3088/29 – 3167/29 

3088/29 Tallaght garda station, Dublin, permanent file (ms) 

3142/29 Sarsfield barracks, Limerick, restoration (pg) (p) (ml) 

3149/29 Gweesalia garda station, Mayo, permanent file (site acquisition) (s) 

OPW5 – 3169/29 – 3388/29 

3169/29 Central heating station, smoke nuisance, transfer of chimney stack to 

Custom House (m) 

333

3228/29 Colaiste Moibhi, water mains, supply/fire precautions (s) 

3279/29 St Fechins Church, Orney Island, Galway, vesting proposal (vs) 

3354/29 Dun Laoighaire Harbour, saluting base on East Pier battery (vs) 

3355/29 ‘Cara na gCuan’, file on maintenance etc (ms) 

3388/29 Governor-General’s Residence, disposal of electric plant (s) 

OPW5 – 3391/29 – 3448/29 

3391/29 Damage to Property (Compensation) Act, 1923, appointment of inspectors 

(ml) 

3406/29 Miltown Malbay garda station, purchase site (s) 

3412/29 OPW, 50 St Stephen’s Green, adaptation works etc (np) (ms) 

3425/29 Preparatory Colleges, utensils and equipment for domestic economy 

rooms (s) 

3427/29 Kings Castle, Kilmallock, inspections/telephone wires on buildings 

assessed (s) 

OPW5 – 3533/29 – 3590/29 

3543/29 Haulbowline dockyard, estimate, 1929-30, memorandums (s) 

3544/29 Ballinrobe Infantry and Cavalry barracks, investigation of title and wills 

(Thomas Burgh, 1715) (bits) (ms) 

3549/29 Thomastown garda station, Kilkenny, electric lighting (s) 

3571/29 River Robe and Lough Mask drainage, trustees and reports, 1927-29 (ok) 

(m) 

OPW5 – 3604/29 – 3654/29 

3604/29 stationary: use of window envelopes (s) 

3620/29 Killann garda station, Wexford, reconstruction of ex-RIC barrack (lots 

plans) (ok) (ml) 

3635/29 Public Record Office, reconstruction, plans and correspondence 

(seemingly full) (ml) 

3654/29 Ballinalee garda station, Longford, works, lease, etc (ms) 

OPW5 – 3669/29 – 3789/29 

3669/29 stages in Preparatory Colleges recreation room (ms) 

3722/29 Ballylooby garda station, Tipperary, building file, vol II (np) (m) 

3733/29 Dept of Agriculture stand for Agricultural Shows (photos) (s) 

3789/29 45 Upper O’Connell St, furniture (p) (s) 

334

OPW5 – 3818/29 – 3880/29 

3818/29 Pettigo garda station, Donegal, temporary premises file (RIC barracks in 

Donegal) (m) 

3841/29 Scoil Brighde alterations (practice school), 19 Earlsfort Terrace (m) 

3847/29 Upper Inny DD, Westmeath/Cavan etc, lots reports etc (m) 

3874/29 Garda Depot, sergeant’s mess, repairs and renovations, improvements 

(wk) (m) 

3880/29 Foynes garda station, Limerick, lease file (s) 

OPW5 – 3910/29 – 3926/29 

3910/29 Haulbowline and SS Thistle, survey and sketches (s) 

3913/29 Fergus DD district, very good restoration file (ml) 

OPW5 – 3933/29 – 4110/29 

3937/29 St Peter’s Phibsboro national school, extensions 1926-29 (FS) (p) (m) 

3997/29 proposed light at Garnish Co Cork (taken on by BOW), (sketches) (s) 

4060/29 estimates, 1929-30, lots memos etc and summaries (m) 

OPW5 – 4112/29 – 4211/29 

4114/29 Assay Office, canteen building, accommodation at Dublin Castle, lots 

correspondence (m) 

4170/29 Haulbowline: accident to labourers, J. O’Leary (vs) 

4180/29 damp complaint, Custom House, store room (s) 

OPW5 – 4230/29 – 4268/29 

4230/29 Castlebar garda station, Mayo, supplemental forces accommodation, 

addition (ms) 

4238/29 Boherbue garda station, Cork, vol 1, mostly building (ml) 

4246/29 fire fighting, appliances post office buildings, 1914-29 (lots ads) (ml) 

OPW5 – 4312/29 – 4442/29 

4322/29 T Wheatley resident labourer, Custom House, death (s) 

4323/29 H.S. Lennon – sick leave, establishment (depression?) (s) 

4353/29 transformer station, electric sub-station GPO (p) (m) 

335

4439/29 Carndonagh Celtic cross (first decent FS file) (photos) (ms) 

OPW5 – 4464/29 – 4493/29 

4464/29 dredger ‘Cara na gCuan’, formerly ‘Esk’, works, main, plans etc, career (l) 

OPW5 – 4499/29 – 4697/29 

4499/29 reports on River Robe (ms) 

4504/29 Stephen’s Green, appointment of superintendent (ms) 

4531/29 Custom House, Dublin, quarters for a caretaker (ms) 

4639/29 Heath ex-RIC barracks, Laois (s) 

4641/29 Kilmainham Prison, correspondence re works (s) 

4651/29 Oireachtas restaurant, vol 4, 1928-30 (p) (m) 

4666/29 Colaiste Brighde, avenues and walls (ok) (ms) 

OPW5 – 4708/29 – 4810/29 

4777/29 Raphoe garda station, Donegal, adaptation file (pg) (p) (m) 

4792/29 Knocknagoshel garda station, Kerry, new barrack erection file (vg) (p) (m) 

4810/29 Ballyconnell House, heating and lighting contracts (p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 4820/29 – 4934/29 

4887/29 Athlone garda station, boathouse accommodation (p) (s) 

4916/29 Costello Bay coast life saving station (s) 

4934/29 establishment: JA Mullan, (de facto registry clerk, working with ledger) 

(ms) 

OPW5 – 4944/29 – 5072/29 

4944/29 proposed transfer to Dept of Education of school’s legal work (s) 

5065/29 Louth garda station, new barrack, purchase file (ml) 

5072/29 Law courts, office cleaners, 1890-1929 (ml) 

OPW5 – 5081/29 – 5196/29 

5124/29 Kerry OPW district, supply of attaché case (m) 

5196/29 Furbough Preparatory College, Galway, Spiddal, works file (exct) (m) 

336

OPW5 – 5215/29 – 5364/29 

5286/29 establishment: cheap traveling offered by railway companies (s) 

5295/29 Crown Alley proposed extension, Dublin GPO (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 5379/29 – 5438/29 

5386/29 Munitions Inspections Board, Kingsbridge (later Post Office Factory), UK 

etc (m) 

5422/29 issue of Board of Works taking over Irish Lights work (general 

correspondence) (vs) 

5432/29 reference library for Dept Local Government, Custom House, Dublin (wk) 

(p) (s) 

OPW5 – 5457/29 – 5521/29 

5514/29 building regulations of Dept of Industry & Commerce (s) 

5517/29 Shanagolden garda station, Limerick, rebuilding file (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 5523/29 – 5677/29 

5523/29 Carlow garda station, main file (m) 

5556/29 SS Alison, sinking and salvage (s) 

5618/29 Dublin GPO, contract for bronze balustrade (wk) (p) (s) 

5677/29 Haulbowline, industrial staff (lists etc) (ml) 

OPW5 – 5686/29 – 5830/29 

5727/29 Owenmore drainage scheme, compensation file (ml) 

5747/29 St Kevin’s Oratory, Gougane Barra, repairs etc (s) 

5751/29 question of insurance discussed generally and inquiries (ml) 

5795/29 GPO, Dublin, key plan (p) (s) 

5830/29 establishment: temporary clerks, 1926-29 (work of sections) (vg) (m) 

OPW5 – 5839/29 – 6114/29 

5872/29 Barrow Drainage, accident on dredger to Mr Anthony (s) 

5813/29 Colaiste Moibhi, boundary fences (s) 

5894/29 Colaiste Moibhi, rolling tennis court (vs) 

5970/29 Eyrecourt garda station, temporary quarters file (s) 

337

6109/29 Phoenix Park: proposed swimming pool (vs) 

6111/29 Colaiste Ide, Burnham House, extension file, no 2 (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 6128/29 – 6211/29 

6152/29 GPO, Dublin, light and air in Princes St buildings (wk) (s) 

6171/29 Marlborough House, Glasnevin, proposal to use building as national 

school (p) (ms) 

6192/29 Ballyhaise garda station, Cavan, temporary barrack file (m) 

6203/29 Collins Barracks, Cork, general store for Southern Command (p) (m) 

6211/29 Castlebar Military Barracks, reconstruction works (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 6234/29 – 6290/29 

6234/29 State Land Act, 1924, implication for harbour works (s) 

6251/29 Moybridge frontier post, (sketch map) (vs) 

6258/29 Ardagh garda station, Limerick, lease file (ms) 

6267/29 Adrigole garda station, Cork, main file, works etc (m) 

6290/29 Fitzwilliam Lane, automatic telephone exchange (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 6312/29 – 6511/29 

6317/29 Currency Commission, Foster Place, heating premises (m) 

6355/29 Curry national school, Sligo, enlargement and improvements (FS) (p) (m) 

6442/29 Central Savings Committee, erection displays at RDS shows etc (m) 

/29 23-28 Kildare St, Dublin, lease of site to ESB (plan of Maple’s Hotel) (m) 

6493/29 Stephen’s Green, call boxes (s) 

OPW5 – 6532/29 – 6618/29 

6566/29 annual estimates 1928-29 (s) 

6570/29 Ballingarry North garda station, Tipperary, vol 2, repairs etc (m) 

6571/29 fire appliances for garda barracks (m) 

6572/29 Rossalre Strand garda station, Wexford, vol 1, works (p) (m) 

6618/29 drainage generally: arrangements re employment workmen insurance, 

wages etc (m) 

OPW5 – 6638/29 – 6768/29 

6638/29 Ballinadrimagh RIC hut (lots plans) (s) 

6639/29 Cabinteely garda station, Dublin, rebuilding file (vg) (p) (l) 

338

6691/29 Limerick post office, accommodation for customs work (p) (m) 

6702/29 Dublin Zoo, choked drains (vs) 

6768/29 Furbrough House, Spiddal, farm buildings (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 6782/29 – 6875/29 

6796/29 National Monuments, National Museum Irish antiquities collection (vs) 

6847/29 Monaghan Model School, works ongoing 1910-29 (g) (p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 6888/29 – 7113/29 

6905/29 Dowra garda station, Cavan, works file (p) (m) 

6906/29 Bunbeg garda station, Donegal (p) (s) 

6926/29 Phoenix Park, application for employment as labourer (m) 

6975/29 Preparatory College, estimates expenditure Dail question (s) 

6983/29 Suck drainage, rates arrears (good letters) (m) 

7069/29 GPO, Dublin, Block A, counters (wk) (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 7114/29 – 7212/29 

7160/29 Agricultural Credit Bill, Land Improvement Loans (comments) (s) 

7164/29 Carrick-on-Shannon garda station, Leitrim, works file (m) 

7168/29 Castletownbere garda station, Cork, building file (p) (ms) 

7187/29 Custom House, Dublin, installation of electric lighting (wk) (vs) 

OPW5 - 7240/29 – 7422/29 

7308/29 national schools, building grants and memos (m) 

7365/29 Land Registry, supply of furniture, (wages etc) (m) 

7373/29 Colaiste Ide, Dingle, Kerry, corridor (p) (m) 

2403/29 Furbough Preparatory College, water supply (s) 

OPW5 – 7443/29 – 7550/29 

7443/29 Tralee garda station, Kerry, supplemental forces accommodation (p) (m) 

7446/29 R. Duthie, head gardener, Governor-General’s Lodge deceased (s) 

7493/29 GPO, Dublin, shelving for Savings Bank, and broadcasting studio (wk) (p) 

(s) 

7507/29 tenders for oak screens, segregation of Government Buildings (p) (s) 

7517/29 estimates, definition of subheads (vs) 

339

OPW5 – 7553/29 – 7678/29 

7553/29 Munster Institute, Cork, furniture supplies and renewals (ml) 

7586/29 Colaiste Brighde, Falcarragh, supplies of furniture and equipment (m) 

7652/29 Culdaff garda station, Donegal (ms) 

7654/29 Skreen garda station, Sligo, building file (p) (m)# 

OPW5 – 7680/29 – 7889/29 

7680/29 Shannon Power Scheme, military protection (interesting general 

correspondence) (m) 

7683/29 Colaiste Caoimhin, Glasnevin, science benches (m) 

7686/29 Phoenix Park, sports grounds maintenance (m) 

7689/29 Ballyconnell House, removal of trees (c.200) (m) 

7747/29 Under-Secretary’s Lodge, accommodation of foreign officers for horse 

shows (m) 

7749/29 Government Buildings, Dublin, removal of armour plating on main gates 

etc (p) (ms) 

7889/29 Mallow garda station, Cork, vol 1, works (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 7893/29 – 7933/29 

7895/29 proposed additional room to gate lodge, declined (p) (s) 

7903/29 GPO, Dublin, fixing of steel night posting box (wk) (p) (vs) 

7909/29 Foynes Harbour (constables etc) (1888-1929 (l) 

OPW5 – 7936/29 – 8041/29 

7943/29 national monuments, birthplace of Oliver Goldsmith, offer for sale (s) 

8006/29 Foynes national school used as police barracks (s) 

8041/29 Ballincollig garda station, Cork, general restoration including works (p) 

(m) 

OPW5 – 8053/29 – 8182/29 

8053/29 Loughrea garda station, Galway, litigation building file (vol 3) (m) 

8066/29 Blackrock Hospital, Rockfield nurses hostel (rent and UK connexion) (m) 

8074/29 Kilmacud Training School of Domestic Economy (p) some works (m) 

8115/29 Dingle Harbour annual accounts, 1909-29 (l) 

8171/29 Technical Instructor Branch: Education, Government Buildings (m) 

8177/29 supervision of order placed with Post Office Factory (vs) 

340

OPW5 – 8192/29 – 8335/29 

8192/29 Howth harbour, motor boat licences (m) 

8196/29 Killybegs Harbour, proposed dredging, Kellys Quay (ms) 

8200/29 Barrow Drainage, extra pay for gangers on double shifts (s) 

82651120/29 GM Cooke, former temporary clerk (s) 

8256/29 need for economy in Government Services (ms) 

8311/29 Stephen’s Green, children’s behaviour (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 8386/29 – 8526/29 

8386/29 New Ross CBS, national school, mostly erection (FS) (p) (m) 

8474/29 Athenry Agricultural School, water supply (m) 

8492/29 Land Commission condition of contract, arbitration clauses generally (m) 

8496/29 list of caretakers etc (s) 

8500/29 arterial drainage, foreman and gangers, rate of pay (s) 

8526/29 Cush drainage scheme, courthouse inquiry recorded (vg) (m) 

OPW5 – 8529/29 – 8713/29 

8566/29 Athleague garda station, Roscommon, vol 1, temporary premises (l) 

8654/29 establishment: employees over 60, April 1 st 1926 (m) 

8694/29 flying flags over public buildings, decoration etc (m) 

U.S. secretary of state visit/Saorstat flags/Patrick’s Day, 1929 

OPW5 – 8721/28 – 8945/29 

8774/29 Aughacashel garda station, Leitrim, purchase and temporary premises (m) 

8783/29 dismantling small rustic hut put together by OPW for RDS show (vs) 

8786/29 Porter’s Lodge at rear of GPO, John Mitchell (s) 

8847/29 Mr T O’Neill, T O’Flynn, J Horgan, teacher training and OPW, personnel 

(s) 

8865/29 circuit court and district court houses, symbols of state (vs) 

8945/29 Bohola RIC barracks, Mayo, destroyed (2pp) (s) 

OPW5 – 8951/29 – 9116/28 

9028/29 return of unestablished employees over 60, 1 st April 1929 (m) 

9078/29 Barrow Drainage, Harmon’s Mill, Athy 

341

OPW5 – 9139/29 – 9228/29 

9156/29 Roscommon general arterial drainage, interesting (m) 

OPW5 – 9234/29 – 9280/29 

9239/29 Rashenny national school, Donegal, improvements (FS mostly) (p) (m) 

9279/29 Naul Castle, vesting proposal (vs) 

9280/29 Phoenix Park, drainage 1927-29 (ie sewerage) (m) 

OPW5 – 9308/29 – 9405/29 

9322/29 Bray garda station, Wicklow, vol III, mainly purchase file (m) 

9354/29 old documents in Dunmore East (vs) 

9395/29 Shaen Lodge, Co Mayo, repairs etc, 1927-29 (g) (ml) 

9405/29 GPO, Dublin, Post Office Buildings, leases etc (shops) (lots plans) (m) 

OPW5 – 9408/29 – 9593/29 

9418/29 Cruise’s Hotel, Limerick, compensation for military occupation (m) 

9477/29 Dunshaughlin garda station, Meath, reconstruction file (vg) (p) (m) 

9593/29 dredgers, ‘Esk’, ‘Saxifrage’, ‘Sisyphus’, appointments, master, engineer, 

etc (m) 

OPW5 – 9607/29 – 9713/29 

9630/29 Tralee OPW district, appointment of clerk of works, JC Duffy (ms) 

OPW5 – 9737/29 – 9786/29 

9742/29 OPW offices, external painting (wk) (vs) 

9763/29 Milford garda station, Donegal, lease file (m) 

OPW5 – 9815/29 – 9999/29 

9869/29 Phoenix Park, expenditure, 1928-29 (vs) 

9877/29 Dunkineely garda station, Donegal, purchase file (m) 

9892/29 Law Library, Dublin Castle, chamber for telephone (vs) 

342

9947/29 disposal of military lands etc, question of preference to local authorities 

(ms) 

9949/29 Haulbowline proposed disposal, 1928-29 (p) (ms) 

9957/29 Ballyfarnon garda station, Donegal, permanent file, works (m) 

OPW5 – 10004/29 – 10154/29 

10004/29 lettings/occupants, 23-24 Kildare St (ml) 

10035/29 transfer of DMP from Dublin Castle to Pearse St (ms) 

10036/29 Manor St garda station, Dublin, works file (wk) (ms) 

10081/29 Barrow Drainage, storage explosives, Monasterevan (vs) 

10118/29 car races in Phoenix Park, arrangements for cattle and deer (vs) 

10120/29 Stephen’s Green, waste paper etc (vs) 

OPW5 – 10159/29 – 10263/29 

10159/29 Fanore garda station, Clare, main file, works etc (p) (m) 

10174/29 Shannon Navigation, Railways (Ireland) Act, 1896 & Shannon piers etc, 

1898-99, road at Rossmore 1898-99 (ml) 

10243/29 Currency Commission, additional strong room accommodation (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 10269/29 – 10357/29 

10283/29 establishment: rates of pay for carpenters-in-charge (vs) 

10285/29 British war graves, verity cards and forms from London (m) 

10297/29 Pat Walsh, employee in Awbeg drainage works, discharged (vs) 

10357/29 Dingle harbour improvement scheme, works etc, 1926-29 (ml) 

OPW5 – 10377/29 – 10420/29 

10384/29 Westport Quay garda station, Mayo, vol 1, works, adaptations etc (ml) 

10414/29 Joseph Cloherty, clerk of works, sick and lost post, appealed (m) 

10417/29 Tribane coastguard station, file has note appended: ‘destroy after 

1/2/1965’ ‘P.A. CC Div D’ 

OPW5 – 10437/29 – 10537/29 

10475/29 Maples Hotel, clearance of site (2 photos) (vg) (p) (ml) 

10476/29 Dept of the President, pedestal table (vs) 

10486/29 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, accommodation for foreign officers visiting 

to take part in Horse Show, RDS (vs) 

343

10537/29 St Molua’s Church, Friar’s Island, Killaloe (Shannon Scheme) (ml) 

OPW5 – 10549/29 – 10695/29 

10563/29 GPO, Dublin, supply and delivery of counter signs (wk) (vs) 

10649/29 National Monuments, proposed legislation, memoranda etc (vg) (m) 

10661/29 Clane garda station, Kildare, tenure file (ms) 

10695/29 Longmeadow estate, Liffey Vale House tenancies (ml) 

OPW5 – 10697/29 – 10984/29 

10768/29 Dundrum garda station, Tipperary, drains (ms) 

10827/29 Government Buildings, cashier’s room, erection of counter (wk) (p) (s) 

10880/29 GPO, Dublin, disposal of old balusters (vs) 

10902/29 Mitchelstown garda station, Cork, vol 1 (s) 

10914/29 Hibernian Military School, transfer to OPW (s) 

10942/29 accident to P. Brosnan, labourer at Dingle Pier (s) 

10984/29 Damage to Property (Compensation) Act, 1923, staff reduction (m) 

OPW5 – 11001/29 – 11171/29 

11052/29 title of OPW to Custom House Quay, searches, including London (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 11177/29 – 11292/29 

11181/29 decoration of Customs House, Dublin (wk) (s) 

11227/29 Catholic Emancipation Centenary, appreciation of caterers (& map of 

events held in Phoenix Park) (m) 

11231/29 Glendalough, caretaker’s house and gardens, 1876- (m) 

12524/29 Phoenix Park, motor races 1929 (fascinating) (ml) 

11246/29 accident to workmen, Dingle Pier, 27 February 1929 (s) 

11292/29 Phoenix Park – exterior and interior painting of buildings (m) 

OPW5 – 11299/29 – 11376/29 

11350/29 Barrow Drainage, Pass Bridge at Monasterevan (s) 

OPW5 – 11379/29 – 11403/29 

11382/29 inspection of beacons at Killala Bay for Irish Lights (vs) 

344

11390/29 Baltinglass garda stations, Wicklow, vol 1, general and works (m) 

11403/29 Ministry of Pensions, requisitions for Blackrock & Leopardstown 

Hospitals (l) 

OPW5 – 11426/29 – 11494/29 

No files selected 

OPW5 – 11498/29 – 11574/29 

11515/29 Quin Abbey, Clare, inspections and works, 1919-29 (m) 

11558/29 Oireachtas, furniture supplies (wk) (s) 

11574/29 Blackrock garda station, Cork, lease file (m) 

OPW5 – 11584/29 – 11806/29 

11584/29 loss of key to Dublin Castle Military Guard (vs) 

11665/29 Fidelity Guarantee Bond/or pay clerks employed in various drainage 

districts (ml) 

11806/29 litter in Phoenix Park (notices etc) (vs) 

OPW5 – 11809/29 – 11896/29 

11826/29 Phoenix Pk motor races, improvements to roads and construction of 

subway (vg) (p) (m) 

11835/29 Moville garda station, Donegal, purchase file (m) 

11836/29 Castlemartyr garda station, Cork, lease file (m) 

11859/29 GPO, Dublin, allocation of rooms, progress reports, 1929 (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 11900/29 – 12000/29 

11900/29 establishment of asbestos cement works in Ireland (vs) 

11914/29 re-surfacing barrack yard, Union Quay garda station, Cork (vs) 

11942/29 Colaiste Brighde, outbreak of fire, Feb 1929 (s) 

11962/29 leave forms, different types (vs) 

11963/29 national monuments, use of vested monuments for religious services, 

restoration of Rock of Cashel (s) 

OPW5 – 12012/29 – 12059/29 

345

12012/29 Moynalty national school, Meath, new plans etc (s) 

12017/29 Dunsallagh national school, Clare, major improvements (p) (ml) 

12028/29 Awbeg drainage scheme, works progress reports etc (Elk found) (vg) (m) 

12059/29 Killeagh garda station, Cork, mainly works (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 12068/29 – 12188/29 

12114/29 Kilcrea Abbey, Cork, 1909-22, 1928-30 (s) (p) (m) 

12120/29 Ballycotton coast life saving station, maps, full file (exct) (p) (m) 

12146/29 Butter Testing Station, DATI, varnishing, other work (m) 

12161/29 Barrow Drainage, supply of oilskin coats (s) 

OPW5 – 12203/29 – 12264/29 

12223/29 Redhills garda station, Cavan, construction and purchase of barrack (g) 

(np?) (ml) 

12246/29 Dublin Custom House, state warehouse and custom offices, 

correspondence and plans (exct) (m) 

12264/29 new national school, Carrowmeena, Donegal, 1926-28 (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 12294/29 – 12412/29 

12298/29 flags on public buildings, supply and maintenance of flags (ok bits) (m) 

12300/29 Athenry Agricultural School, drinking trough and service mains 

connection (s) 

12313/29 GPO, Dublin, cement in bulk (wk) (vs) 

12347/29 Ballyconnell House, drainage (m) 

12412/29 Kilmacthomas garda station, Waterford, purchase file (m) 

OPW5 – 12417/29 – 12506/29 

12417/29 Galbally garda station, Limerick, building file (p) (m) 

12429/29 National Gallery, fire hose (vs) 

12430/29 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, applications for housing accommodation (vs) 

12493/29 Athenry post office, adaptation works, 1929 (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 12507/29 – 12660/29 

12520/29 applications for employment on drainage works, P. Murphy (vs) 

12598/29 Colaiste Ide/Burnham House Preparatory College, science room 

(equipment) (p) (s) 

346

12603/29 Ballyhaise Agricultural Station, electrics and repairs (m) 

12653/29 Southern Railways, finances, Board of Works loans etc, 1922-29 (l) 

OPW5 – 12668/29 – 12753/29 

122715/29 Caherdavin ex-RIC barracks, Limerick, lease to B McGrath (m) 

12724/29 Ballywilliam garda station, Wexford, building file (m) 

OPW5 – 12784/29 – 12944/29 

2816/29 Dept of Justice, Government Buildings, additional storage accommodation 

(p) (s) 

12901/29 Castlebar old gaol, Mayo, disposal (interesting on period 1919-28) (m) 

12933/29 Chantilly Stud Farm, residence, repairs and painting works (s) 

12944/29 post of head gardener, Governor-General’s Residence (s) 

OPW5 – 12948/29 – 13009/29 

12958/29 Lough Corrib, Mask & Carra drainage, improvement schemes 

(correspondence) (m) 

12970/29 Shannon Power Scheme, OPW schedules of building prices, 1926-29 

(bits) (m) 

13001/29 Church near Mooncoin, Kilkenny, vesting issue (vs) 

13005/29 Dundalk Road Customs Hut, works and plans (s) 

OPW5 – 13011/29 – 13089/29 

13038/29 Colaiste Brighde, Falcarragh, stage and Recreation Hall (exct plans) (vs) 

13075/29 Culleens national school, Mayo (near Charlestown) (FS), major 

improvements (p) (ml) 

13089/29 commandeered premises, appointment of chief valuer, H Bradley (s) 

OPW5 – 13092/29 – 13189/29 

13092/29 bilingual name-plates for OPW District Offices (s) 

13152/29 GPO, Dublin, incinerator (s) 

OPW5 – 13395/29 – 13548/29 

13548/29 Ballymore garda station, Westmeath, purchase file (ml) 

347

13349/29 Drogheda employment exchange, 1918-29 (floor plans etc) (m) 

OPW5 – 13195/29 – 13352/29 

13195/29 coast life saving stations, painting (p) (s) 

13126/29 Knock garda station, Clare, vol 1, purchase and stores (m) 

13225/29 Dunmore RIC barracks, survey (lovely photos) (p) (s) 

13332/29 Ashbourne garda station, Meath, vol 1, reconstruction file (p) (ms) 

13352/29 Customs House and Dock, acquisition of reversionary interest and plans 

(m) 

OPW5 – 13573/29 – 13679/29 

13584/29 establishment: half-yearly return of staff, 1926-29 (statistical) (m) 

OPW5 – 13715/29 – 13792/29 

13715/29 Beggars Bush barracks, lease of married quarters to Pembroke UDC (p) 

(m) 

13792/29 arterial drainage, Mayo general (including River Robe) (m) 

OPW5 – 13802/29 – 14351/29 

13821/29 Donacarney Monastery, Co Meath, vesting issue (vs) 

13913/29 new buildings and works, registration of plans etc (vs) 

13930/29 GPO, Dublin, preparation of front room for occupation by accounts branch 

(wk) (vs) 

14349/29 GPO, Dublin, purchase of site (wk) (s) 

14351/29 GPO, Dublin, Block B (np) (wk) (m) 

OPW5 – 14362/29 – 14436/29 

14436/29 Sigerson-Shorter Memorial, Glasnevin, correspondence and plans (exct) 

(m) 

14427/29 Rathgall Old Fort, Tullow, Carlow, vesting issue (vs) 

OPW5 – 14443/29 – 14521/29 

14509/29 land loans, amending legislation, Dec 1925, memoranda etc (s) 

348

OPW5 – 14523/29 – 14635/29 

14587/29 National Library, supply of book rests, ladders etc (wk) (ms) 

14615/29 Dunleer garda station, Louth, vol 1, restoration works etc (ml) 

OPW5 – 14642/29 – 14668/29 

14642/29 Grianan of Aileach, Donegal, 1902-22, 1928-29 (s) (ml) 

14643/29 Liathmore-Mochoemoy, (Leighmore Churches), Tipperary, 1920-29 (m) 

14664/29 workmen’s compensation, question of medical certificates (vs) 

14668/29 Rampart River, Louth, arterial drainage, exct transcript of inquiry (m) 

OPW5 – 14689/29 – 14753/29 

14689/29 Swanlinbar garda station, Cavan, vol 1, rent, repairs etc (m) 

14688/29 Corbetstown garda station, Kilkenny, vol 1, rent and repairs (m) 

OPW5 – 14779/29 – 14971/29 

14777/29 Dublin 3 sub-district, J Murphy, carpenter, K Haughton, plasterer (s) 

14790/29 National Museum, works on basement room (crypt) (s) 

14847/29 numbers of buildings and other property in charge of Board of Works, 

1920s (vg) (s) 

14901/29 Corbetstown garda station, Kilkenny, temporary premises (ms) 

14929/29 Barrow Drainage staff and duties (s) 

14946/29 Dun Laoighaire harbour constables, hours, duties etc (vs) 

14971/29 correspondence files, instructions on maintenance (s) 

14974/29 GPO, Dublin, window guard (vs) 

OPW5 – 15004/29 – 15235/29 

15094/29 Rathfarnham garda station, Dublin, ex-RIC barrack file, 

compensation/plans/rent etc (p) (m) 

15117/29 Collinstown Aerodrome caretaker (m) 

15159/29 Preparatory Colleges, opening dates (s) 

15235/29 internal OPW applications for post in Dept of Finance (references) (vs) 

OPW5 – 15238/29 – 15393/29 

15238/29 Ballyhaunis garda station, Mayo, vol 1, rent and preliminary works etc (m) 

349

15240/29 Tulsk garda station, Roscommon, purchase file (ms) 

OPW5 – 15394/29 – 15612/29 

15418/29 accident at Kingstown Harbour (s) 

15479/29 Tyholland border huts, works file (p) (s) 

15612/29 Kinsale garda station, Cork, preliminary (m) 

OPW5 – 15655/29 – 15826/29 

15714/29 Kilmessan garda station, Meath, permanent file/building (p) (m) 

15775/29 14 & 15 Upper O’Connell St, party wall (m) 

OPW5 – 15827/29- 15915/29 

15827/29 Dungourney garda station, Cork, building file (p) (m) 

15829/29 Louisburgh garda station, Mayo, vol 1, compensation and repairs (g) (m) 

15840/29 Kilkishen garda station, Clare, vol 1, reconstruction and preliminary works 

(g) (m) 

15843/29 candidate for post in Saorstat Legation (secretary) (references) (s) 

15915/29 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, renewal of lights in master’s gardens (s) 

OPW5 – 15919/29 – 16065/29 

15944/29 Wolfhill garda station, general and work (ml) 

16045/29 Burtonport garda station, Donegal, adaptation file, vol 1 (g) (p) (m) 

16054/29 JJ Buttimer, junior engineer (disagreement), personnel file (vg) (vs) 

16065/29 Kilrush-Cappa coast life saving station (s) 

OPW5 – 16067/29 – 16129/29 

16084/29 Barrow Drainage, draft scheme, Jan-July 1929 (m) 

16100/29 Blackrock and Leopardstown Hospital, proposed amalgamation (m) 

16114/29 Garda Depot Phoenix Park, verandah in married quarters (s) 

16127/29 Oughterard garda station, Galway, repairs and rent etc (m) 

16129/29 Ballaghadereen garda station, Roscommon, agreement file (ms) 

OPW5 – 16140/29 – 16192/29 

16140/29 GRO, transfer to Custom House (ms) 

350

16147/29 Ballybrophy telegraphist’s residence (m) 

16188/29 Science and Art Museum, proposed use of state rooms in Dublin Castle 

(p) 

16189/29 Whitefields Lodge, dry rot (p) (s) 

16192/29 Kiltealy national school, Wexford, new school (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 16225/29 – 16409/29 

16234/29 OPW practice respecting provision of testimonials (s) 

16384/29 Government Contracts Committee, minutes of proceedings, Jan- Aug 1929 

(m) 

16385/29 plant/equipment not returned from works at Custom House (s) 

16409/29 increments of salary, 1927-28 (m) 

OPW5 – 16441/29 – 16500/29 

16441/29 Four Courts reconstruction, North Block works (wk) (p) (m) 

16483/29 M. Woodhead, typist (vs) 

OPW5 – 16532/29 – 16678/29 

16595/29 electrically driven accelerator in Central Heating Station (s) 

16649/29 fractured leg, T Donohue, Barrow Drainage (m) 

16662/29 Ardmore look-out tower, Waterford (bits) (ms) 

OPW5 – 16682/29 – 16768/29 

16683/29 Crown Alley telephone exchange, military guardroom (s) 

16690/29 Phoenix Park, service of public conveyances (m) 

16741/29 fishery store and station, rural industries, transfer of responsibility for 

maintenance (s) 

OPW5 – 16785/29 – 16834/29 

16785/29 medical examination of divers in Haulbowline (vs) 

16799/29 overhaul of life-saving apparatus, 1923-29 (rocket-houses etc) (ml) 

16805/29 Rathdowney garda station, Laois, vol 1, works etc (m) 

OPW5 – 16836/29 – 16888/29 

351

16836/29 workers in Botanic Gardens (from 1926- ), student hostel etc (p) (ml) 

16856/29 Arterial Drainage Act, 1925: general file no 4 (m) 

16862/29 annual report, 1927-28, lots summaries prepared for draft report (m) 

16888/29 GHQ, Parkgate St, adaptation of hospital buildings (ms) 

OPW5 – 16901/29 – 16951/29 

16929/29 objections to Barrow Drainage scheme (m) 

16951/29 Annascaul garda station, Kerry, purchase file (m) 

OPW5 – 16959/29 – 17050/29 

16959/29 Frederick St, Limerick City, rent file (ms) 

17029/29 GPO, Dublin, civic week decorations 

17037/29 Ballyhaise garda station, Cavan, purchase and works etc (ml) 

17050/29 recoverable expenditure on preparatory colleges (vs) 

OPW5 – 17060/29 – 17150/29 

17106/29 appointment of land valuers (m) 

17149/29 Phoenix Park, Catholic Emancipation Celebrations (ml) 

17150/29 drainage works, employers liability insurance, 1928-29 (lots good bits) 

(m) 

OPW5 – 17156/29 – 17261/29 

17158/29 P. Malone, carpenter, gratuity (vs) 

17169/29 Moyore garda station, Westmeath, permanent premises file (ms) 

17180/29 Phoenix Park, re erection of lamps after motor race (vs) 

17222/29 Barrow Drainage, complaint from Mr Lefroy (vs) 

OPW5 – 17267/29 – 17377/29 

17270/29 staff of various grades in OPW Secretarial and Accounts branches (s) 

17313/29 Gun Rock light/beacon, Inisboffin, 1912-29 (good description, ads, etc) 

(ml) 

17377/29 Blessington garda station, Wicklow, vol 1, works etc (m) 

OPW5 – 17379/29 – 17579/29 

352

17468/29 Four Courts Record Treasury, provision of fire-proof doors (wk) (p) (m) 

17511/29 Duleek garda station, Meath, reconstruction file (p) (m) 

17563/29 Colaiste Moibhi (Glasnevin and Marlborough House), kitchen transfer etc 

(ms) 

OPW5 – 17594/29 – 17643/29 

17594/29 establishment: engineer’s branch, 1923-29 (brilliant) (l) 

17598/29 Midleton Endowed School, Cork, 1894-1929 (m) 

17610/29 Coachford garda station, Cork, main and building file (p) (m) 

17643/29 Anthony Mackey and Shannon eel fisheries (ms) 

OPW5 – 17651/29 – 17797/29 

17657/29 Barrow Drainage, purchase of plant (vg) (m) 

17702/29 TJ Biggs, clerk of works (vs) 

17768/29 Castlebar Military Barracks, general supplies (m) 

OPW5 – 17822/29 – 17916/29 

17822/29 Leitrim garda station, reconstruction file, vol II (p) (m) 

17844/29 Ballyhaise Station, new hay and grain shed (qg) (p) (ms) 

17916/29 temporary shorthand typist, appointments etc (m) 

OPW5 – 17924/29 – 17965/29 

17924/29 Phoenix Park – motor cycle races (m) 

17928/29 Glanmire garda station, Cork (s) 

17933/29 Morris Mills garda station, Cork, rebuilding file etc (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 17967/29 – 18047/29 

18011/29 Oireachtas extension into National Museum etc, correspondence (p) (m) 

18029/29 Dun Laoighaire Harbour, appointment of assistant harbour master (ms) 

18031/29 Glyde compensation claims (m) 

18047/29 Board of Works, proposals for useful legislation offered to Dept of 

Finance (s) 

OPW5 – 18062/29 – 18155/29 

353

18062/29 Rathmines post office and telephone exchange (p) (ml) 

18140/29 establishment: re-employment of pensioners (vs) 

18147/29 Colaiste Caoimhin, removal of trees (vs) 

18155/29 loans arrears, general problems, correspondence (m) 

OPW5 – 18162/29 – 18313/29 

18162/29 Castleisland garda station, Kerry, temporary premises (m) 

18212/29 Dun Laoighaire harbour, boatman Crowe acting as launch cox (vs) 

18228/29 Haulbowline, water supply for imperial garrison at Spike Island (m) 

18240/29 American Legation, lease premises etc, incl works (ms) 

18266/29 provision of lift at Dublin Castle, Dept of Industry and Commerce (vs) 

18267/29 question of working in Waterford OPW District commuting from Dublin 

(vs) 

18304/29 amendment to State Lands Act, problem of small tenancy arrears (s) 

18307/29 Waterford garda station, adaptation of barrack (np) (m) 

18313/29 Ardagh garda station, vol 2 (s) 

OPW5 – 18326/29 – 18409/29 

18329/29 Knocktopher Church, Kilkenny, 1908-20, 1929 (m) 

18359/29 Owenmore drainage: objections to scheme (ml) 

18409/29 outbreak of dry rot, Waterford military barracks (m) 

OPW5 – 18424/29 – 18570/29 

18424/29 Adare garda station, Limerick, provision of bathroom (ml) 

18435/29 Haulbowline, disposal of tug, ‘Dainty’ (m) 

18480/29 establishment: P.J. McMahon, clerical officer (vs) 

18501/29 Summer Time Acts, 1916-26, regulation of clocks (notices etc) (bits) (ml) 

OPW5 – 18594/29 – 18732/29 

18643/29 Haulbowline, recruitment of labour (vs) 

18655/29 Dept of External Affairs, offices of representatives of Saorstat, Brussels 

and Paris (s) 

18662/29 Phoenix Park, water supply to lodges (m) 

18670/29 Talbot House, temporary use for preparatory college students (m) 

OPW5 – 18752/29 – 18790/29 

354

18788/29 Patrickswell garda station, Limerick, ex-RIC barrack file, 

rent/compensation claim, works (ml) 

18790/29 Hollford garda station, Tipperary, main file, building (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 18804/29 – 18944/29 

18850/29 inquiry into objections to Barrow Drainage scheme (ms) 

18875/29 Four Courts, low level drainage agreement (p) (s) 

18899/29 Bunaninner national school, Donegal, new school (p) (m) 

18944/29 Croom garda station, Limerick, general (ms) 

OPW5 – 18945/29 – 19153/29 

18945/29 ancient monuments, reprints from annual reports of Board of Works (s) 

18953/29 Cork British military cemetery, erection of private memorials (s) 

18959/29 Barrow Drainage, correspondence with Grand Canal Company, 1925-29 

(m) 

19106/29 Dingle pier, accident to Thomas Sheehy (vs) 

19131/29 Arterial Drainage Act, 1925, progress reports/statistics, 1929-30 (m) 

19136/28 information respecting new building processes in modern construction (vs) 

OPW5 – 19166/29 – 19306/29 

19176/29 architectural assistant, Gearoid O’hchuadha (vs) 

19215/29 Ballylarkin Abbey, inspections and photos (vs) 

19226/29 23 St Stephen’s Green, various offices and occupants, new Passport Office 

(l) 

19306/29 GPO, Dublin, fire hose connections (vs) 

OPW5 – 19330/29 – 19431/29 

19354/29 GPO, Dublin, bridge to mail room (wk) (p) vs) 

19359/29 GPO, Dublin, Post & Telegraphs acquisition of frontage (vs) 

19418/29 Navan garda station, various works (s) 

19422/29 Timahoe Round Tower, 1903-29 (m) 

OPW5 – 19436/29 – 19527/29 

(No files selected) 

355

OPW5 – 19533/29 – 19610/29 

19533/29 Maigue Navigation general, 1921 etc (p) (m) 

19662/29 Kathleen Kirwan, personnel file (vs) 

OPW5 – 19671/29 – 19697/29 

19671/29 Durrow garda station, Laois, vol 1, works general (m) 

19675/29 Fivemilebourne garda station, Leitrim (s) 

19686/29 Ballyhaise Agricultural Station, re-slating roofs, dormitory, carpenter’s 

shop (s) 

19697/29 Coal reserve file, Aug 1927 – 32 (ml) 

OPW5 – 19744/29 – 19748/29 

19744/29 Cloghmore garda station, Waterford, vol 1, rent and works (m) 

19146/29 Ballymahon garda station, Longford (m) 

19748/29 Partry garda station, Mayo (m) 

OPW5 – 19753/29 – 19901/29 

19753/29 Moycullen knitting class, premises, works, disposal of hut (ms) 

19785/29 Buncrana War Signal Station, flagstaff, disposal, pg) (p, photo) (ms) 

19791/29 Border/frontier posts, provision of barriers (p) (s) 

19829/29 National Gallery, design of wall-paper, Dockrells, sample of gold stuff (s) 

19848/29 Bective Abbey, 1928-29 (p)(s) 

19884/29 Phoenix Park, training racehorses (m) 

OPW5 – 19903/29 – 20057/29 

19903/29 equipment for egg inspection huts (Dept of Agriculture) (m) 

19928/29 national monument legislation, correspondence etc (m) 

19949/29 Land Commission, neighbouring smoke nuisances (ms) 

19970/29 Plassey Bridge, Shannon Navigation, provision of concrete paths, 1908-20 

(sketches) (interesting) (ms) 

19983/29 administration of government properties, proposed transfer to Board of 

Works (s) 

20034/29 Deel drainage scheme, correspondence (m) 

20054/29 Rosses Point garda station, Sligo, purchase file (ex-coastguard station) 

(ms) 

20057/29 Imperial Services, estimates 1926-29 (bits) (ml) 

356

OPW5 – 20064/29 – 20258/29 

20081/29 Glin garda station, Limerick, building file (small plan) (m) 

20103/29 Kilree Church and Round Tower, Kilkenny, inspections etc, (photo) (ms) 

20245/29 GPO, Dublin, lettered plates for postal receptacles (wk) (p) (ms) 

20252/29 Colaiste Ide, new altar (wk) (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 20274/29 – 20366/29 

20274/29 Dungarvan garda station, Waterford, vol 1, restoration (g) (p) (ml) 

20279/29 OPW architectural districts from May 1924, general administration (vg) 

(ms) 

20308/29 Gort Forestry Centre, repairs to cottage, DATI (p) (s) 

20324/29 Dublin Castle stores stock, toiletware (drawings) (ms) 

OPW5 – 20367/29 – 20433/29 

20367/29 offices of Dept of Finance, Government Buildings, heating arrangements 


20410/29 Shevry garda station, Tipperary, purchase file (ms) 

20419/29 Cashel garda station, Tipperary, main file, rent, repairs, etc (m) 

20433/29 Buncrana Naval Barracks, leasing two sites (dispute with shirt factory) 

(m) 

OPW5 – 20435/29 – 20507/29 

20465/29 establishment: drawing office, appointment of draughtsmen (m) 

OPW5 – 20509/29 – 20672/29 

20595/29 Dundrum garda station, Dublin, vol 2 (vs) 

20627/29 Phoenix Park: armistice commemoration, 1926-29, erection of cross, good 

notices (g) (m) 

OPW5 – 20673/29 – 20734/29 

20678/29 loan to D.A.D., 1919-29 (m) 

20682/29 remains of St Mary’s Abbey, Dublin, problem with protection of building, 

1928-29 (ms) 

20686/29 establishment: appointment of valuers for drainage schemes (m) 

357

20715/29 Colaiste Ide; storage accommodation, Burnham House, Dingle (s) 

20716/29 Newgrange, publication of pamphlet (illustrated by Leask), enclosed (s) 

OPW5 – 20739/29 – 20903/29 

20817/29 Garda housing, station plans and works (summaries), 1928-29 (vg) (m) 

20831/29 Beggars Bush barracks, transfer of administration from Dept of Defence 

(m) 

OPW5 – 20908/29 – 20950/29 

20909/29 St Mark’s Cross, Burgagemore, Wicklow, vesting (3 photos) (s) 

20939/29 engineering contracts, arbitration clause (vs) 

20942/29 Ballincollig military cemetery, Co Cork, caretaking etc (ms) 

20940/29 George Crowe, assistant architect, establishment (vs) 

20950/29 Shercock garda station, temporary barrack file (ml) 

OPW5 – 20958/29 – 20996/29 

20959/29 Srandhill garda station, Sligo, mostly rental (ms) 

20970/29 amendments in cemetery records, list of altered names and identities (ms) 

20975/29 Carrickmacross post office, new premises (lots plans) (m) 

20996/29 submissions on objections to Owenmore drainage scheme (interesting) (m) 

OPW5 – 21041/29 – 21118/29 

21041/29 Dublin GPO, Block A, steelwork sub-contract (memoranda) (wk) (vs) 

21069/29 Four Courts, railings (p) (s) 

21118/29 Committee on relief of unemployment, OPW and relief schemes, 1928-29 

(ml) 

OPW5 – 21119/29 – 21311/29 

21161/29 Kilnamona Church, Clare, inspections (vs) 

21216/29 Marlboro Hall, Glasnevin, fencing (wk) (ms) 

21247/29 GPO, Dublin, electric light fittings, contracts (wk) (np) (ms) 

21248/29 GPO, Dublin, corporation water main through cellar (wk) (ms) 

OPW5 – 21312/29 – 21134/29 

358

21317/29 establishment: female office cleaners, 1918-29 (ml) 

21322/29 civil service post and candidates from OPW (vs) 

21323/29 Roundwood garda station, Wicklow, lease file (ms) 

21327/29 Castlecomer coal, 1928-29 (good bits, tests, letters) (m) 

21134/29 St Stephen’s Green, labourers etc, 1917-29 (m) 

OPW5 – 21338/29 – 21396/29 

21341/29 Berlin Legation, adaptation works, maintenance etc (p) (m) 

21387/29 Dublin new labour exchange, Lord Edward St, electric lighting, 1916, 

1929 (specs) (m) 

21391/29 Haulbowline, lease to Petersen and Albeck (m) 

21396/29 Clondalkin garda station, Dublin, purchase file (m) 

OPW5 – 21399/29 – 21445/29 

21399/29 Kilconnnel garda station, Galway, adaptation file (p) (m) 

21403/29 Headford garda station, Galway,vol 1, adaptations (p) (m) 

21423/29 Ship St military barracks, Dublin, title, property file etc (ms) 

OPW5 – 21445/29 – 21546/29 

21462/29 Loughrea (vacated) garda station, vol 2, departure (ms) 

21506/29 Veterinary College of Ireland, Ballsbridge, tenure file (ms) 

21508/29 Rathkeale garda station, Limerick, vol 1, repairs, works, rent (ml) 

21546/29 proposed Preparatory College, Ballyconnell House, purchase file (m) 

OPW5 – 21565/29 – 21681/29 

21565/29 Central Model Schools, provision of plastering (wk) (p) (ms) 

21625/29 Dept of Justice, Cavan probate registry, removal of access to court house 

(m) 

21626/29 Arterial Drainage Act, 1925, maintenance of machinery, estimates, 1929- 

39 (m) 

OPW5 – 21684/29 – 21797/29 

21738/29 architectural districts, Dublin, listed with plan (vs) 

21783/29 Grangegorman military cemetery (607 graves) (ml) 

21797/29 Northern Boundary Customs Huts, Swanlinbar (p) (m) 

359

OPW5 – 21808/29 – 21873/29 

21837/29 Doonbeg garda station, Clare, main file (m) 

21853/29 National Gallery, fire mains (p) (ms) 

21873/29 tug ‘Dainty’, Haulbowline overhauls etc (m) 

OPW5 – 21888/29 – 22068/29 

22068/29 Union Quay coastguard station, Cork, vol 2, works and repairs etc (m) 

OPW5 – 22071/29 – 22175/29 

(no file selected) 

OPW5 – 22177/29 – 22300/29 

22178/29 alterations and improvements to Central Model School (p) (m) 

22289/29 national monuments, reprints from annual reports (vs) 

22300/29 Portlaw garda station, Waterford, vol II (ms) 

OPW5 – 22302/29 – 22437/29 

22306/29 Glenamaddy garda station, Galway, permanent file, works etc (p) (m) 

22391/29 Custom House, Dublin, restoration of dome (wk) (p) (m) 

22345/29 Dunmore East coast life saving station, works etc (s) 

22377/29 Shannon Navigation, Killaloe section, closing old course, opening new 

course (ms) 

22395/29 national monuments; injury to workman, Jerh Ivis (vs) 

22424/29 Ballyglass coast life saving station, plans and work (ms) 

22437/29 OPW, 51 St Stephen’s Green, proposed handrail to steps (wk) (2 plans) 

(ms) 

OPW5 – 22439/29 – 22598/29 

22454/29 Ballsbridge Veterinary College, lettings (m) 

22460/29 GPO, Dublin, 60 Upper Sackville St, premises, 1890-1920 (m) 

22548/29 Dublin Castle, Ship St, automatic telephone exchange, heating system (s) 

22598/29 Two special war memorial stones, Rathmullan (St Columb’s) graveyard, 

Donegal (Vesper and Leask companions on visit) (ms) 

360

OPW5 – 22602/29 – 22762/29 

22603/29 Government Buildings, North Block, erection of screen on first floor 

corridor (Dept of President) (p) (s) 

22671/29 Kilmichael garda station, Galway, vol 1, work preliminaries (m) 

22758/29 Dept of External Affairs, expenditure on Legations of Saorstat (vs) 

OPW5 – 22763/29 – 22798/29 

22763/29 Preparatory Colleges: Colaiste Brighde/Ballyconnell House, works 

(photos of works in progress!!) (exct) (p) (ml) 

22772/29 Stephen’s Green, proposed lighting scheme (p) (s) 

22784/29 temporary clerks, proposed limited examination, April 1929 (s) 

22798/29 Buncrana harbour, 1929-30 (m) 

OPW5 – 22802/29 – 22894/29 


OPW5 – 22906/29 – 23028/29 

22906/29 complaint regarding Church Tower, Hill St, Dublin (vs) 

22910/29 dredging of Balbriggan harbour, 1923-29 (m) 

22974/29 Garda Depot, Phoenix Park, alterations to sanitary apparatus (specs) 

(sketches) (p) (m) 

22984/29 GPO, Dublin, fittings for steel counter drawers (wk) (vs) 

23004/29 Glenfarne temporary Garda barracks (vs) 

23010/29 Hut for military police constable in Kildare Place, Oireachtas (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 23047/29 – 23205/29 

23068/29 Tynagh garda station, Galway, rebuilding file (p) (m) 

23205/29 Ballinspittle garda station, Cork, rebuilding file (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 23215/29 – 23356/29 

23216/29 ceremony at re-opening of GPO, Dublin (s) 

23222/29 Ennis post office and residence, erection (ms) 

23279/29 Kilmacommogue burial ground, Cork, vesting issue etc (vs) 

361

23329/29 legislation respecting national monuments, 1929-30, correspondence & 

commentary (m) 

OPW5 – 23371/29 – 23444/29 

23371/29 St Vincent’s national school, Marino, Dublin, building (m) 

23415/29 Wicklow harbour, storm-damage, 1922-29 (m) 

23422/29 Glencar garda station, Leitrim, temporary premises file (ms) 

23424/29 Glin garda station, Limerick, temporary premises (ms) 

23444/29 establishment: inquiry into staff and duties of OPW workmen (vs) 

OPW5 – 23461/29 – 23529/29 

23485/29 Leap Castle garda station, Offaly (vs) 

23488/29 Claremorris garda station, Mayo, conveyance of new site (m) 

23513/29 group of ancient monuments in Carracastle, Mayo (1p) 

OPW5 – 23531/29 – 23592/29 

23551/29 Beggars Bush, adaptations for statistical office (wk) (p) (ms) 

23566/29 minutes of Civil Service Representative Council meetings, 1924-29 (ml) 

23578/29 Four Courts, reconstruction and plastering of dome (wk) (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 23614/29 – 23761/29 

23647/29 Blacklion garda station, Cavan, temporary quarters file, huts etc (m) 

23739/29 Muine Beag garda station, Carlow, reconstruction file (p) (m) 

23751/29 Barrow Drainage, boat grounded in levitstown canal (s) 

23755/29 Dun Laoighaire harbour, contributions to Monkstown Hospital (s) 

OPW5 – 23763/29 – 23880/29 

23798/29 Saorstat Legation, Rome, supply of linen and cutlery (s) 

23815/29 disposal of confidential waste paper by Departments of Government (vs) 

23880/29 Naul garda station, Dublin, main file, repairs, works etc (m) 

OPW5 – 23881/29 – 23953/29 

23881/29 Ballinabrackey garda station, Meath, preliminary works (p) (m) 

23888/29 Glencar garda station, Leitrim, permanent barracks file, works (p) (ms) 

362

23896/29 Tullow garda station, Carlow, lease file (ms) 

OPW5 – 23959/29 – 24007/29 

23965/29 Colaiste Brighde/Ballyconnell House, science equipment (ms) 

23969/29 Finea garda station, Cavan, building file (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 24032/29 – 24170/29 

24048/29 establishment: A.F. Pearson, superintendent of Phoenix Park, 1920-37 

(exct) (m) 

24102/29 war graves, central memorials (s) 

24170/29 Portarlington garda station, Queens County, vol 1, rent, repairs (m) 

OPW5 – 24208/29 – 24300/29 

24294/29 Leixlip garda station, Kildare, rent and works (m) 

OPW5 – 24302/29 – 24438/29 

24315/29 establishment: sealing documents & status of the OPW as a corporation 

(ms) 

24316/29 correspondence etc related to piers and harbours tribunal of 1930 (m) 

24317/29 Oireachtas dining room, equipment (m) 

OPW5 – 24439/29 – 24479/29 

24444/29 Birdhill garda station, Tipperary, main file (p) (m) 

24479/29 Araglen garda station, Cork, main file (m) 

OPW5 – 24480/29 – 24531/29 

24480/29 Tallaght garda station, Dublin, building file (p) (m) 

24485/29 Oireachtas buildings, restaurant, lounge extension (p) (ms) 

24491/29 Castlebar military barracks, electric lighting (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 24541/29 – 26589/29 

26589/29 Coolgreaney garda station, Wexford, vol 1, building (ml) 

363

OPW5 – 7/30 – 91/30 

7/30 GPO, Dublin, shopping arcade, construction of shops (wk) (p) (ms) 

12/30 Dun Laoighaire harbour staff, retirements of James Doyle, foreman & NJ 

Rickaby, storeman (vs) 

91/30 Phoenix Park labourers – dismissals, working hours, uniforms (m) 

OPW5 – 95/30 – 134/30 

125/30 Greenore garda station, Louth, main file (ms) 

132/30 Shanaglish garda station, Galway, temporary premises (m) 

OPW5 – 142/30 – 169/30 

142/30 Liscannor coastguard station, Clare, vol II, rebuilding (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 231/30 – 388/30 

231/30 respecting erection of ‘museum’ hayshed, and new stable, demolition of 

old pits (p) (ms) 

285/30 Clonbur garda station, Galway, vol 2, case of complaint by police against 

Board of Works (m) 

288/30 national monuments: funds for archaeological exploration (vs) 

388/30 Crazycorner garda station, Westmeath, works etc (s) 

OPW5 – 401/30 – 472/30 

451/30 Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1906, memorandum (s) 

461/30 administration of military properties – various issues (s) 

OPW5 – 485/30 – 573/30 

485/30 St Patrick’s boys and girls national school, Drogheda, major works etc 

(FS) (p) (m) 

516/30 contract for headstones, Grangegorman Cemetery (m) 

535/30 Moycullen garda station, Galway, building file (qg) (np) (m) 

565/30 public buildings general: RIBA report on dampness (s) 

573/30 Inniscrone garda station, Sligo, works etc (m) 

364

OPW5 – 584/30 –689/30 

609/30 OPW drawing office, storage of plans etc (vs) 

689/30 GPO, Dublin, misc correspondence, 1925-30 (ms) 

OPW5 – 690/30 – 890/30 


OPW5 – 891/30 – 1037/30 

891/30 Saorstat Legation, Berlin furniture (m) 

958/30 Dept Lands & Fisheries – Lagduff Lodge, Co Mayo (m) 

978/30 telephone operator, appointment of W.H. Martin (ms) 

OPW5 – 1041/30 – 1174/30 

1063/30 Bailieboro garda station, Cavan, vol 1 (m) 

1118/30 Grangegorman military cemetery, headstone contracts (ms) 

OPW5 – 1181/30 – 1445/30 

1208/30 trial of Irish stone for use on restoration of Custom House and Four Courts 

(ms) 

1240/30 post of assistant-secretary, Dept Lands & Fisheries, applications (vs) 

1245/30 professional equipment: levels for engineers, establishment (m) 

1264/30 vacancies for office-keepers and head messengers (s) 

1273/30 Liscarroll garda station, Cork, vol 2, works (m) 

OPW5 – 1455/30 – 1628/30 

1472/30 Northern Boundary Hut, Muff (qg) (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 1631/30 – 1703/30 

1666/30 Tallaght garda station, Dublin, temporary premises (m) 

365

OPW5 – 1714/30 – 1765/30 


OPW5 - 1778/30 – 1988/30 

1790/30 Dundrum Asylum, agency arrangement with NI government, 1922-30 (m) 

1814/30 examination platforms in Frontier Customs Huts (p) (ms) 

1926/30 Headford garda station, purchase file (ms) 

1927/30 Currency Commission, supply of steel plates and shelving (p) (m) 

1974/30 Shee House, High St, Kilkenny (nat mons) (vs) 

OPW5 – 1990/30 – 2210/30 

1990/30 Four Courts reconstruction, drainage and sanitary fittings etc (wk) (p) (ms) 

2000/30 GPO, Dublin, no 6 Post Office Buildings, normal file (p) (m) 

2185/30 Oireachtas restaurant, furniture supplies (m) 

OPW5 – 2230/30 – 2279/30 

2241/30 Phoenix Park, labourers file, appointments etc (ml) 

2239/30 Fort Cahersavane, Kerry, vesting proposal (vs) 

OPW5 – 2282/30 – 2417/30 

2282/30 Smithboro garda station, Monaghan, purchase file (m) 

2294/30 occupation of Master Quarters, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Major-Gen 

McEoin (m) 

2360/30 Phoenix Park – international motor races, final report (m) 

2406/30 qualification of engineers (right to title), question raised (vs) 

2417/30 Athlone post office, works general (m) 

OPW5 – 2434/30 – 2532/30 

2434/30 National Museum, offer of locomotive first used on Great Southern and 

Western Railway in 1848 (!!!), diagram of tender/engine (s) 

2440/30 Dungarvan post office, adaptations, vol 1, (np) (m) 

2500/30 discussion of means of promotion of national amenities (s) 

2509/30 Cootehill garda station, Cavan, lease file (m) 

366

OPW5 – 2536/30 – 2706/30 

2536/30 L.G. Mason, transfer to Northern Ireland (vs) 

2640/30 Butter Testing Station, media room, female lavatory (p) (m) 

2703/30 Mullagh garda station, Cavan, vol 1, temporary premises etc (m) 

OPW5 – 2728/30 – 2776/30 


OPW5 – 2777/30 – 2932/30 

2880/30 Templetuohy garda station, Tipperary, purchase file (m) 

2929/30 Ballyconnell House, farm buildings and cottages (p) (m) 

2932/30 Stephen’s Green, sanitary accommodation (new toilets) (plans) (m) 

OPW5 – 2943/30 – 3069/30 

2993/30 Togher garda station, Cork, rent file (ms) 

OPW5 – 3080/30 – 3214/30 

3112/30 tobacco offal used as fuel in Custom House (ms) 

3149/30 Lucan garda station, Dublin, vol 1, works etc (plans) (m) 

3157/30 National Museum, removal and re-erection of fire-grates & mantel-pieces 

(vs) 

3207/30 Arterial Drainage Act, 1925, preliminary expenses (s) 

3214/30 Dublin Castle, allocation of accommodation, inter-departmental 

committee (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 3225/30 – 3311/30 

3225/30 Valentia garda station, Kerry, vol 1 (m) 

3239/30 Custom House esplanade, car parking (signs) (vs) 

3249/30 Blackrock Hospital, provison of workshop accommodation (ms) 

3275/30 Barrow Drainage – accident case (s) 

3303/30 American Legation, Phoenix Park (s) 

OPW5 – 3317/30 – 3330/30 

367

3317/30 Tralee garda station, Kerry, rebuilding file (p) (m) 

3325/30 Ballylongford garda station, Kerry, temporary premises file (m) 

3326/30 Donegal Town garda station, vol 1: adaptations (g) (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 3350/30 – 3465/30 

3350/30 Fenagh Abbey, Leitrim, 1881-1916 (1929) (photos etc) (ml) 

3456/30 Custom House, Dublin, dome and turret clock (qg) (s) 

OPW5 – 3535/30 – 3597/30 

3580/30 Burnfoot garda station, Donegal (m) 

OPW5 – 3632/30 – 3778/30 

3632/30 superintendent’s house, Stephen’s Green, works (p) (m) 

3640/30 Wine St garda station, Sligo, general including work (m) 

3642/30 Ballysodare garda station, Sligo, various works (p) (ms) 

3668/30 establishment: R.J.A. Jameson, Land Improvement Inspector (m) 

OPW5 – 3783/30 – 3870/30 

3796/30 Garda housing, articles in Garda Review (m) 

OPW5 – 3884/30 – 4040/30 


OPW5 – 4043/30 – 4170/30 

4105/30 case of fraud committed by J.J. Sharkey, junior engineer (ms) 

4115/30 annual estimates, 1930-31, financial (bits) (m) 

4136/30 Dept of Defence, works carried out by OPW (s) 

4151/30 Mr Jones claim under article 10 of Treaty – changed conditions argument 


OPW5 – 4192/30 – 4224/30 

368

4218/30 national schools, standard estimates fixed for cookery fittings, 1909-29 

(ml) 

4220/30 Phoenix Park: accident to Patrick Flanagan, labourer (s) 

4222/30 leave papers and retirement papers, JJ Maloney, 1928-30 (bits) (m) 

4224/30 harbour launch, Dun Laoighaire (photo) – correspondence (m) 

OPW5 – 4225/30- 4255/30 

4225/30 GPO, Dublin, revision of estimates of cost, some correspondence (s) 

4233/30 Rosmuck garda station, Galway, reconstruction file (p) (m) 

4236/30 Castleisland garda station, Kerry, rental file (m) 

4253/30 Preparatory Colleges, Ballyvourney, preliminary works (m) 

4255/30 Leopardstown Hospital, transfer of nurses from Rockfield House (ms) 

OPW5 – 4272/30 – 4363/30 

4347/30 Rockcorry garda station, Monaghan (m) 

OPW5 – 4407/30 – 4614/30 

4518/30 Maghera national school, Clare, (full erection file, FS), P) (ml) 

4597/30 Four Courts, Record Treasury, steel shutters (ads) (wk) (p) (s) 

4607/30 architectural staff arrangements: memorandum (vs) 

4614/30 Kilmihil garda station, Clare (s) 

OPW5 – 4659/30 – 4805/30 

4730/30 Under-Secretary’s Lodge, Phoenix Park, accommodation for Papal Nuncio 

(ml) 

4745/30 GPO, Dublin, reconstruction, Block D, lambhill ironworks (ms) 

4805/30 establishment: claim of Mr Irwin under article 10 of constitution (s0 

OPW5 – 4821/30 – 4996/30 

4822/30 Cappoquin garda station, Waterford, preliminary works (g) (ml) 

4981/30 Cape Clear harbour, S.O. file (ml) 

4986/30 Leinster House, Minister’s lavatory in curved passage, 1924-36 (s) 

OPW5 – 5017/30 – 5112/30 

369

5112/30 Revenue Commissioners: Kildrum border post (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 5116/30 – 5241/30 

5147/30 Papal Nuncio’s Residence, renovation of pictures (s) 

5190/30 Butter Testing Station, media room and female analysts room (exct) (m) 

5240/30 Waterford military barracks, aspects of reconstruction (ml) 

5241/30 GPO, Dublin, Block A, joinery, some correspondence (wk) (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 5259/30 – 5325/30 

5325/30 Mohill garda station, Leitrim, vol 1, acquisition of premises (ml) 

OPW5 – 5333/30 – 5482/30 

5333/30 Louth garda station, temporary premises (ms) 

5356/30 Government Contract Committee, agenda and minutes, Sept 1929-March 

1930 (m) 

5472/30 Keshcarrigan garda station, Leitrim, temporary file (ms) 

5475/30 Tullogher garda station, Kilkenny, building file (ms) 

OPW5 – 5482/30 – 5699/30 

5592/30 Williamstown garda station, Galway, restoration, vol II (p) (m) 

5597/30 Foynes garda station, Limerick, restoration file (no 3) (g) (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 5700/30 – 5710/30 

OPW5 – 5724/30 – 5750/30 

5738/30 annual report, 1928-29, material summaries etc (ml) 

5750/30 Millstreet garda station, Cork, reconstruction file (g) (p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 5758/30 – 5843/30 

5789/30 list of documents regarding Newry Ship Canal sent to Northern Ireland 

(vs) 

5836/30 Leopardstown Park Hospital, removal of dangerous trees (m) 

370

OPW5 – 5886/30 – 6130/30 

5886/30 Leap garda station, Cork, various (ms) 

5887/30 Castledermot garda station, Kildare, restoration file (p) (ml) 

5934/30 proposed excavation by Dr Adolf Mahr near Loughrea (vs) 

5946/30 Durris garda station, Cork, boundary fence (s) 

6095/30 Inland Revenue, estate duty office, Dublin Castle (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 6145/30 – 6266/30 

6251/30 Donnybrook garda station, Dublin, site purchase (s) 

6266/30 RIA, fining down rent (OPW and leasehold), 1888-1929 (m) 

OPW5 – 6272/30 – 6337/30 

6292/30 National schools general: protection of children from car traffic, gates etc 

(p) (s) 

6313/30 Belmullet garda station, Mayo, works and repairs (ms) 

6335/30 City Chemical and Colour Company, paint test (qg bits) (m) 

6337/30 Aghowle Church, Wicklow, inspections (half-eaten) (s) 

OPW5 – 6338/30 – 6377/30 

6338/30 Slieve na Calliagh Cairn, Meath, vesting proposal (argument with Dept of 

Finance) (m) 

6369/30 deposit of Professor Henry’s herbarium into Botanic Gardens (OPW 

involvement) (vs) 

OPW5 – 6378/30 – 6430/30 

6378/30 Oldcastle garda station, Meath, rebuilding file (p) (m) 

6394/30 GPO, Dublin, furnishing female staff rest room, accounts branch (wk) (vs) 

6430/30 Salthill garda station, Galway, main file (mostly purchase) (m) 

OPW5 – 6433/30 – 6499/30 

6433/30 Gweesalia garda station, Mayo, temporary premises/purchase (m) 

6438/30 6 Hume St, adaptation works file (probably for OPW engineering branch) 

(p) (ms) 

371

OPW5 – 6502/30 – 6655/30 

6502/30 Ballinabola garda station, Wexford, temporary premises (ms) 

6532/30 GPO, Dublin, ladies lavatory, arcade shops (wk) (vs) 

6537/30 Kells Abbey, 1927-29 (s) 

6601/30 Glangevlin garda station, Cavan, main file, compensation, repairs etc (m) 

6615/30 workshop buildings, Merrion Lane, (National Museum etc), repairs (ms) 

6622/30 Valentia Wireless Station, foundations for engine generator set (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 6673/30 – 6732/30 

6689/30 lawnmower, annual overhaul (bits) (ml) 

6692/30 Pearse St Sorting Office, lease files etc (m) 

6713/30 Swinford garda station, Mayo, temporary premises (m) 

6716/30 Mohill garda station, Leitrim, temporary premises (s) 

OPW5 – 6750/30 – 6848/30 

6790/30 James Hitchcock, engineer-in-chief, Central Heating Station (m) 

6848/30 Ballinamuck garda station, Longford, vol 2, works etc (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 6852/30 – 7039/30 

6852/30 Ballyhooly garda station, Cork, lease file (m) 

7013/30 Portlaoise Prison, drainage system, Dept of Justice (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 7040/30 – 7199/30 

7185/30 Athenry Agricultural Station, supply of tools and fittings for workshop (s) 

OPW5 – 7213/30 – 7288/30 

7213/30 GPO, Dublin, improvements to façade (wk) (vs) 

7274/30 Athenry garda station, Galway, vol 1 (ms) 

7285/30 Bunavalla proposed lobster pond, Kerry (Dept Lands & Fisheries) (ms) 

OPW5 – 7314/30 – 7416/30 

7339/30 Lusk garda station, Dublin, vol 1, temporary quarters, repairs etc (m) 

372

7416/30 Eglinton St garda station, Galway, repairs to barracks etc (g) (m) 

OPW5 – 7437/30 – 7498/30 

7437/30 Youghal post office, works, linesmen’s accommodation, furniture (m) 

7460/30 annual estimates, 1930-31, good summaries (m) 

OPW5 – 7499/30 – 7618/30 

7499/30 Barrow Drainage, supply of thigh boots (m) 

7529/30 W.H. Fox clerical officer, increments (vs) 

7531/30 Ardamullivan Castle, Galway (p) (m) 

7618/30 Public Record Office, reconsruction of Record Treasury (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 7620/30 – 7699/30 

7665/30 Blanchardstown garda station, Dublin, preliminary works (m) 

7680/30 administration of Collinstown Aerodrome lands (qg) (m) 

OPW5 – 7719/30 – 7886/30 

7827/30 establishment; temporary engineers, arterial drainage (rates of pay) (ml) 

OPW5 – 7893/30 – 8035/30 

7918/30 architectural staff, leave arrangements, 1930-33 (m) 

7919/30 assistant architects, districts, rearrangements (vs) 

8034/30 Scartaglin garda station, Kerry, ‘hut’ file, vol 1 (qg) (m) 

8035/30 Ballinrobe garda station, Kerry, building file, vol 1 (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 8036/30 – 8098/30 

8036/30 Ballaforan garda station, Roscommon, general file (m) 

8042/30 Beggars Bush barracks, army officers quarters, electricity and water 

supply (m) 

8066/30 St Audoen’s Church, Dublin, 1929- 35 (s) 

8098/30 Haulbowline, canteens on site (various) (m) 

373

OPW5 – 8110/30 – 8264/30 

8127/30 Geological Survey Office, 14 Hume St, tenure, lease file (m) 

OPW5 – 8265/30 – 8360/30 

8288/30 Collinstown Aerodrome, disposal of site (m) 

8298/30 safeguarding of Irish Land Commission, issue of caretakers (ms) 

8307/30 Cork Model School, plastering and examination of other questions 

8328/30 Dunmore East, harbour dues (m) 

8336/30 establishment: annual returns of unestablished employees aged 60 and 

over on 1 st April 1930 (s) 

OPW5 – 8361/30 – 8480/30 

8434/30 Garda superintendent’s residence (metropolitan division), 29 Fitzgibbon St 

(p) (m) 

8450/30 subletting of rooms in High Commissioner’s Office, London (York 

House) (ms) 

OPW5 – 8483/30 – 8505/30 

8483/30 Carratigue national school, Mayo, building improvements, 1897-1929 (p) 

(m) 

OPW5 – 8515/30 – 8548/30 

8515/30 Beechwood garda station, Tipperary, building file (p) (m) 

8523/30 Munster Institute, electric storage battery (m) 

8524/30 Currency Commission, Foster Place, furniture (p) (m) 

8529/30 Four Courts, fire mains, water supply (wk) (p) (s) 

8535/30 Ballinderry crannog & Moate excavations (vs) 

OPW5 – 8559/30 – 8672/30 

8668/30 Phoenix Park: correspondence in respect of playing fields for camogie, 

1922-29 (m) 

OPW5 – 8673/30 – 8788/30 

374

8678/30 porter’s hut, College of Science, Dublin (UCD), electricity (m) 

8714/30 Carna garda station, Galway, restoration file (p) (m) 

8768/30 letting of Ballyfair House, to KC Madden (m) 

OPW5 – 8810/30 – 9086/30 

8841/30 use of Ardbraccan stone at Four Courts (vs) 

8996/30 Barnaderg garda station, Galway, vol 2 (works) (m) 

9016/30 GPO, Dublin, temporary dining-room and kitchen (vs) 

OPW5 – 9089/30 – 9226/30 

9097/30 Killarney garda station, Kerry, work (p) (m) 

9151/30 Haulbowline, tug ‘Dainty’, claim against Canadian Government (m) 

9221/30 Belturbet garda station, Cavan, purchase & works (m) 

OPW5 – 9244/30 – 9459/30 

9244/30 estimates for stationary and printing (ms) 

9347/30 Land Commission, 25 Upper Merrion St, provision of three urinals (p) 

(ms) 

9405/30 Buncrana pier, Donegal (ms) 

9459/30 Banagher garda station, Offaly, vol 1, location/lease etc (m) 

OPW5 – 9463/30 – 9647/30 

9463/30 Kiltimagh garda station, Mayo, rent and repairs (m) 

OPW5 – 9650/30 – 9692/30 

9650/30 use of private cars on official business (bits) (ml) 

9691/30 Blacklion disused hut, disposal 

9692/30 Cliffoney garda station, Sligo, vol II, work and plans (ms) 

OPW5 – 9718/30 – 9876/30 

9775/30 Haulbowline, electric lighting, connection to Shannon Scheme (m) 

375

OPW5 – 9899/30 – 10018/30 

9899/30 Science and Art Museum buildings, boiler house, heating (CHS) (m) 

9902/30 establishment; Civil Service Compensation Board, JP Irvine attending 

meetings (ms) 

9994/30 audit of non-voted OPW accounts (s) 

10010/30 Collinstown Aerodrome site for labourer’s cottages (m) 

10017/30 Preparatory Colleges: incident of expenditure (ms) 

10018/30 Four Courts, Central Block etc, disposal of building plant (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 10047/30 – 10137/30 

10083/30 Dromod garda station, Leitrim, well (s) 

10128/30 Leitrim garda station, temporary premises (ms) 

10137/30 External Affairs, transfer of High Commissioner’s Office, London, from 

York House to Piccadilly, various (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 10189/30 – 10344/30 

10221/30 Custom House, Dublin, restoration of granite steps and pavement (wk) (vs) 

10230/30 Kinsale Harbour loan, suggested remission, 1922-30 (ml) 

10266/30 Garda Siochana barracks, information required by economy committee 

(vs) 

10318/30 National Monument Fund, closure under 1930 National Monument Act (s) 

10344/30 Furbough House, Spiddal, Galway, purchase file (problem) (ml) 

OPW5 – 10355/30 – 10442/30 

10417/30 Irish Land Commission, sanitary and other works (p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 10451/30 – 10635/30 

10509/30 Greystones telephone exchange, works (p) (ms) 

10626/30 Garda housing, general file, 1929-30 (ms) 

10635/30 Letterfrack garda station, Galway, rent and repairs, works (m) 

OPW5 – 10639/30 – 10725/30 

10639/30 Skibbereen garda station, Cork, reconstruction file, vol II (ms) 

10661/30 contracts, carpets, lino etc, Dublin district (m) 

10724/30 Balla garda station, lease of strip of site to Mayo Co Council (m) 

376

10725/30 Inveran garda station, Galway, vol 2, works (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 10733/30 – 10863/30 

10789/30 Currency Commission, installation of lifts (p) (m) 

10805/30 Castlepollard garda station, Westmeath, vol 1 (m) 

OPW5 – 10881/30 – 10941/30 

10881/30 Cork Bridewell garda station, reconstruction file, vol 1 (m) 

10895/30 Glencolumbcille garda station, Donegal, reconstruction file, vol II (ms) 

OPW5 – 10974/30 – 11077/30 

10974/30 dredger masters and engineer’s mates, applications for leave (s) 

10985/30 Irish Censor’s Office, sound projection apparatus (lovely ad for ‘Talkie’ 

films) (m) 

10989/30 luncheon club, Dublin Castle (ms) 

11069/30 Apostolic Nunciature, stocking conservatories (s) 

OPW5 – 11120/30 – 11281/30 

11120/30 national schools, revision of standard specifications (m) 

11160/30 Roundstone garda station, Galway, vol 2, lease etc (ms) 

11227/30 map of coastguard properties 1909 (exct) (vs) 

OPW5 – 11357/30 – 11393/30 

11381/30 Thomas Carty, temporary clerk of works (s) 

11390/30 Charles Fort, Kinsale, reservoir site (tenure etc), registration of state title 

(m) 

11393/30 staff returns OPW (m) 

OPW5 – 11401/30 – 11425/30 

11401/30 Caherdaniel garda station, Kerry, acquisition and preliminary works (m) 

11402/30 internet exams, supply of desks and chairs (m) 

11411/30 Askeaton Abbey, Limerick, 1887-1930, usual (ml) 

377

OPW5 – 11435/30 – 11527/30 

11435/30 Burtonport harbour improvement works, (dredging etc) (m) 

11482/30 application for improvement loan of Westport Harbour, 1922-30 (m) 

11486/30 H.H. Murray, land loans inspector, 1909-29 (m) 

11501/30 Lady Lane and Peter St garda stations, Waterford, lease file (m) 

11507/30 Coole garda station, Westmeath, maintenance file (vs) 

OPW5 – 11537/30 – 11604/30 

11565/30 Lad Lane garda station, Dublin, mess lockers etc (m) 

11573/30 Post Office Factory, Kingsbridge, improvements to garages (ms) 

11586/30 war graves, personal inscriptions (procedures) (m) 

11603/30 agricultural schools and stations, transferred to various districts (vs) 

11604/30 Munster Preparatory College, offers of land for site (ms) 

OPW5 – 11608/30 – 11814/30 

11682/30 GPO, Dublin reconstruction, fortnightly progress reports, Dec 1926-July 

1930 (m) 

11710/30 Ballyconnell House/Colaiste Brighde, extension (p) (ms) 

11712/30 Phoenix Park motor races 1930, preparation of roads (m) 

OPW5 – 11819/30 – 11872/30 

11819/30 Dublin Castle, Supreme Court, maintenance of roof (p) (m) 

11830/30 Castle Military Barracks, Limerick (King John’s Castle) (ms) 

11852/30 Ballycumber garda station, Offaly, vol II, lease file (m) 

OPW5 – 11897/30 – 11948/30 

11928/30 Shannon Navigation, transfer of control of navigation etc, general 

correspondence, 1929-30 (m) 

11944/30 establishment: claims for compensation under article 10 of Treaty (vs) 

11948/30 OPW referring to Dept of Finance, depreciated (vs) (made by temporary 

employees) 

OPW5 – 11971/30 – 12049/30 

11995/30 15-16 Upper Merrion St – works (p) (m) 

12018/30 Dublin Castle, west boundary walls (s) 

378

12037/30 Roscommon garda station, Roscommon Town, old gaol site (p) (m) 

121049/30 Letterkenny Inland Revenue – accommodation, repairs, rent (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 12501/30 – 12197/30 

12055/30 Ballyconnell House, plumbing and heating, lighting contracts (wk) (m) 

12130/30 ancient monuments in Galway (vs) (eaten) 

12197/30 Kilurin garda station, Wexford, rent and repairs (m) 

OPW5 – 12218/30 – 12368/30 

12198/30 establishment: temporary clerk of works, B.H. Doyle & M.H. Barry (m) 

12280/30 R Hildebrand, clerk of works, appointments and postings (ms) 

12353/30 Leitrim garda station, Leitrim, main file (m) 

OPW5 – 12405/30 – 12589/30 

12422/30 Manus drainage, employment dispute (g) (s) 

12428/30 Aghade Dolmen, Carlow (vs) (eaten) 

12430/30 Fermoy employment exchange, vol 1, repairs etc (m) 

12448/30 GPO, Dublin, harmony of furniture with internal architectural features 

(wk) (p) (s) 

12589/30 Phoenix Park – economy committee reports (vs) 

OPW5 – 12618/30 – 12744/30 

12619/30 Tunagesh national school, Mayo, erection of new school (p) (ms) 

12628/30 Haulbowline correspondence (ms) 

12633/30 improvements suggested to Howth Harbour (vs) 

12706/30 ventilation of Gardiner St employment exchange (wk) (p) (s) 

12714/30 6 Hume St, OPW drainage section, map storage (vs) 

OPW5 – 12751/30 – 12837/30 

12755/30 Castleconnor garda station, Kilkenny, work (m) 

12774/30 Mallow post office, garage accommodation (p) (ms) 

12828/30 Howth, refusal to pay crannage dues etc (m) 

12837/30 drainage reports on Lough Mask and River Robe (vg) (m) 

379

OPW5 – 12838/30 – 12904/30 

12838/30 Cork British Military Cemetery, general and maintenance (m) 

12846/30 Garrytown garda station, Dublin, adaptation, temporary premises file (m) 

12893/29 Crossmolina garda station, Mayo, repairs etc, vol 1 (ml) 

OPW5 – 12905/30 – 13309/30 

12971/30 Kealkill garda station, Cork, departure (ms) 

12973/30 New Inn garda station, Tipperary, main file, vol 1, works (m) 

OPW5 – 13043/30 – 13283/30 

3170/30 accident cases, arterial drainage, medical fees (vs) 

13195/30 Stephen’s Green Park – purchase motor mower, 20 inch Ransome (s) 

13236/30 50 St Stephen’s Green, tenure and accommodation of OPW (m) 

OPW5 – 13316/30 – 13371/30 

13337/30 Brittas garda station, Dublin, temporary premises and repairs (m) 

OPW5 – 13387/30 – 13488/30 

13395/30 – Ferms garda station, vol II, lease, works etc (p) (m) 

13396/30 Bandon garda station, Cork, vol II, leasehold etc (m) 

13414/30 Abbeyleix post office, alterations (s) 

13429/30 rising water level Lough Derg, complaint of damage to boathouse (s) 

13483/30 Stephen’s Green, band performances, 1922-30 (m) 

OPW5 – 13502/30 – 13509/30 

Four schools 

OPW5 – 13510/30 – 13607/30 

13537/30 Clonmacnoise Churches, inspections etc (eaten) (s) 

13546/30 Chapelizod garda station, Dublin, repairs, works (m) 

13580/30 OPW staff and duties, 1914-1930: comparisons across decades (s) 

13583/30 absences on inspections by M.J. Burke (s) 

13602/30 Glenquin Castle, general file etc (p) (eaten) (ms) 

380

OPW5 – 13624/30 – 13637/30 

Four schools 

OPW5 – 13714/30 – 13833/30 

13822/30 established: official luncheons, preparation of table plans (vs) 

13824/30 flag flying and illuminations/celebrations by OPW (m) 

13833/30 Shankill garda stations, Dublin main file, works and repairs (m) 

OPW5 – 13849/30 – 14059/30 

13916/30 GPO, Dublin, supply waste paper receptacles (vs) 

13927/30 GPO, Dublin, provision of window blinds (vs) 

14059/30 Doochary national school, Donegal, building, furnishing, enclosing, 

£1345, (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 14063/30 – 14142/30 

14123/30 Ballyforan garda station, Roscommon, building file vol 1 (p) (m) 

14142/30 Portmagee garda station, Kerry, vol 3, rebuilding file (ms) 

OPW5 – 14143/30 – 14184/30 

14143/30 Ballinamult garda station, Waterford, works file (p) (ml) 

14174/30 lease to Petersen and Albeck, Haulbowline (s) 

14184/30 bar of Lough coast life saving station, Wexford (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 14226/30 – 14426/30 

14226/30 Drogheda garda station, Louth, lease file (m) 

14252/30 Kilkenny Inland Revenue offices, 1924-30, works etc (m) 

14339/30 survey of Phoenix Park, 1929 (maps) (m) 

14426/30 Limerick junction garda station, Tipperary, temporary premises, repairs 

etc (m) 

OPW5 – 14443/30 – 14627/30 

381

14558/30 Lawrencetown garda station, Galway, main file, repairs and works (m) 

14627/30 Ballymote garda station, temporary premises/works etc (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 14628/30 – 14794/30 

14628/30 Letterkenny garda station, Donegal, accommodation for supplemental 

forces, works (m) 

OPW5 – 14798/30 – 14913/30 

14798/30 Albert Agricultural College, transfer to OPW, secondment of A.R. 

Robertson (m) 

14831/30 Carrowkennedy garda station, Mayo, works file (g) (p) (m) 

14883/30 Limerick Model School, improvements (p) (m) 

14891/30 Kilrush garda station, Clare, works (s) 

OPW5 – 14917/30 – 15154/30 

14966/30 establishment; assistant architects, 1925-30, conditions etc (m) 

15013/30 Governor-General’s Residence, town gate lodge enlargement (p) (m) 

15073/30 harbour winches (DATI until 1922), Waterford & Wexford (s) 

15118/30 Custom House, Dublin, cleaning of bathstones (vs) 

15126/30 National Gallery, renewal of boilers (s) 

15138/30 Skerries garda station, Dublin, restoration RIC barracks file (m) 

15147/30 National Museum workshop, lifting gear (s) 

OPW5 – 15157/30 – 15226/30 

1517/30 Colaiste Einne, Furbough Preparatory College, enlargement (p) (s) 

15192/30 J.H. Thullier succeeded by J.C. Fitzpatrick (m) 

15226/30 Galway Training College, designs/competition (m) 

OPW5 – 15230/30 – 15357/30 

15280/30 ‘Twelve Apostles’ carving, Tiererane, Laois (eaten) (vs) 

15287/30 Farranfore garda station, Kerry, works (s) 

15389/30 analysis of restoration policy in case of national monuments (s) 

15357/30 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, consideration of use for state purposes (m) 

382

OPW5 – 15369/30 – 15451/30 

15399/30 Loughrea garda station, Galway, restoration file (p) (m) 

15451/30 Malahide garda station, Dublin, adaptation file part 1 (m) 

OPW5 – 15454/30 – 15665/30 

15482/30 Barrow Drainage, archaeological objects found in river, 1926-34 (ms) 

15507/30 establishment: delay in new works due to shortage of professional staff (s) 

OPW5 – 15729/30 – 15815/30 

15729/30 Kildare post office (class II), works (p) (m) 

15763/30 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, ball held in August 1930, plans etc (ms) 

15780/30 GPO, Dublin, purchase of superstructure of 24-25 Henry St (p) (ml) 

15815/30 Land Registry, reconstruction (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 15847/30 – 15995/30 

15847/30 annual reports of dredgers, costs etc (m) 

15915/30 Colaiste Ide/Burnham House, alterations (s) 

15918/30 Paris Legation looking for Irish paintings from the OPW, initiative (vs) 

15954/30 Stephen’s Green Park, greenhouses (p) (s) 

15960/30 establishment: W.K. Thompson, archaeological assistant, Sept 1930 (vs) 

OPW5 – 16004/30 – 16124/30 

16004/30 Barrow Drainage operations, professional articles in Agricultural Journal 

(s) 

16041/30 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, journeyman gardeners (s) 

16139/30 Killeigh Abbey, Offaly (p) (vs) 

OPW5 – 16159/30 – 16242/30 

16187/30 Cappagh garda station, Waterford, works file (p) (m) 

16191/30 Drainage Act 1925, accidents to workers (vs) 

16205/30 Waterford garda station, proposed adaptation of barracks for garda station 

(p) (ms) 

16242/30 Boherbuoy garda station, Limerick, works (s) 

383

OPW5 – 16246/30 – 16338/30 

16246/30 Inishannon garda station, Cork, main file, works (g) (p) (m) 

16252/30 bill of quantities for part of Four Courts (ms) 

16264/30 Ordnance Survey Office, Phoenix Park, inspection of water pump (s) 

16273/30 Colaiste Ide/Burnham House, reconstruction of farm buildings (ms) 

16230/30 Pearse St Sorting Office, Sandwith St gates (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 16349/30 – 16471/30 

16372/30 testimonial for R Jones (?) architect, OPW (vs) 

16431/30 laundry machines etc, Royal Hibernian School, 1913-29 (ads) (m) 

16440/30 Pearse St Sorting Office, sorting tables (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 16476/30 – 16565/30 

16560/30 establishment: retirements under article X (ml) 

16565/30 establishment: A Crockett, land valuer (vs) 

OPW5 – 16579/30 – 16616/30 

16579/30 Sligo no 1 barracks, Sligo, main file, repairs etc (m) 

16581/30 Ballylongford garda station, Kerry, building file (courthouse), works (ms) 

16586/30 Waterford garda station, Waterford (s) 

16595/30 Ballynaquin (?), Kerry, vesting proposal (rejected) (vs) 

16601/30 Caste Point Castle, Cork, vesting issue (vs) 

OPW5 – 16625/30 – 16771/30 


OPW5 – 16761/30 – 16826/30 

16761/30 Clonmany garda station, Donegal, repairs etc, main file (p) (m) 

16785/30 Dublin Castle, Post & Telegraphs, adaptation of Riding School as 

engineering garage, vol 1 (p) (m) 

16798/30 Carraroe garda station, Galway, rent and repairs (m) 

OPW5 – 16827/30 – 16913/30 

384

16913/30 Athboy garda station, Meath, adaptation file (m) 

OPW5 – 16928/30 – 16999/30 

16928/30 Lifford garda station, Donegal, works (p) (ms) 

16957/30 Pearse St Sorting Office, Dublin, swing seats (ms) 

16999/30 retirement of James McNally, gardener, Private Secretary’s Lodge (vs) 

OPW5 – 17002/30 – 17045/30 

17002/30 23 Kildare St, demolition (g) (ms) 

17005/30 Westport workhouse, compensation claim 

17012/30 Rock of Cashel, Tipperary (Cashel Feis etc) (ms) 

OPW5 – 17063/30 – 17146/30 

17063/30 Public Buildings, lightning conductors (bits) (m) 

17068/30 Ballyhaise gate lodge (wk) (p) (ms) 

17091/30 Shannon & Rinn Rivers, flooding 1928-30, correspondence (ml) 

17146/30 Phoenix Park: damage by motor cars (ml) 

OPW5 – 17152/30 – 17277/30 


OPW5 – 17280/30 – 17365/30 

17280/30 Rockhill House, Letterkenny, Preparatory College, lease file (ml) 

17316/30 National Museum, rearrangement of accommodation for Antiquities 

Division (p) (ms) 

17329/30 Newbliss garda station, Monaghan, works file (m) 

17351/30 Killahara Castle, Dovea, Tipperary, vesting proposal (vs 

OPW5 – 17366/30 – 17392/30 

17392/30 Trim garda station, Meath, vol II, lease file (m) 

OPW5 – 17393/30 – 17485/30 

385

17393/30 Westport garda station, Mayo, vol II, works file (m) 

17409/30 Botanic Gardens, refreshment rooms and other works (p) (m) 

17450/30 agricultural stations, proposed works (lovely plans) (m) 

OPW5 – 17491/30 – 17627/30 

17491/30 Boyne Navigation: transfer (including documents) of navigation to private 

company and abandonment (g) (m) 

17522/30 Colaiste Caoimhin, manual instruction room (p) (m) 

17526/30 Land Drainage Act (Scotland) 1930, (copy) (s) 

17544/30 ESB, application for accommodation (vs) 

17555/30 Fair Wages Clause case, re sluice gates at Ardfert (s) 

17607/30 Mullingar garda station, Westmeath, building file (g) (p) (m) 

17611/30 Command Store, Collins Barracks, Cork, provision of window bars (s) 

17627/30 Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1930, comments on effect on Phoenix 

Park (vs) 

OPW5 – 17628/30 – 17751/30 

17628/30 Scariff arterial drainage inquiry etc, (qg) (m) 

17731/30 Ballylongford garda station, Kerry, main file no 1 (s) 

17751/30 Kinnity garda station, Offaly, reconstruction file (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 17764/30 17859/30 

17782/30 Rockhill House, Letterkenny, temporary Preparatory College, works file 

(p) (m) 

17833/30 establishment: cabinet workshop, Oriel House, extra upholsterer (s) 

OPW5 – 17864/30 – 17903/30 

17873/30 assistant to harbour master, 1915-30 (m) 

17875/30 Griffith Barracks, Dublin, proposed furniture store, now Oriel House (p) 

(m) 

OPW5 – 17918/30 – 17963/30 

17921/30 Kilbride national school, erection of new school (p (m) 

17926/30 Owenmore drainage, claim of Michael Doddy for loss of eel weir (s) 

17944/30 threatened builder’s strike, ‘D’ district (vs) 

17948/30 Annagry garda station, Donegal, building file (p) (m) 

386

OPW5 – 17966/30 – 18070/30 

17966/30 Galway proposed training college, purchase of site, Colaiste Einde (m) 

OPW5 – 18088/30 – 18137/30 

18101/30 Australian exhibition: use of Australian timber in Four Courts and Custom 

House (photo) (vs) 

18104/30 GPO, Dublin, contract for revolving doors (wk) (s) 

18110/30 Cobh employment exchange, lease file, 1925-30 (m) 

18119/30 Lismore garda station, Waterford, rent and works file (p) (m) 

18137/30 Currane landing slip, Mayo (s) 

OPW5 – 18169/30 – 18250/30 

18180/30 Gaelic League, 25 Parnell Square, works file (m) 

18190/30 Gleneely garda station (proposed), Galway (s) 

18250/30 Dungloe garda station, Donegal, permanent file, repairs etc, completed 

works (m) 

OPW5 – 18255/30 – 18382/30 

18255/30 Housing (Gaeltacht) Bill, 1929, detailed commentary by OPW on 

regulation etc (m) 

18277/30 GPO, Dublin, accounts branch, cash office, removal of partitions (wk) (vs) 

18306/30 GPO, Dublin, shop no 27, Henry St, projecting sign (vs) 

18311/30 Leopardstown Park Hospital, renovation of hostel (vs) 

18313/30 ruins of Old Newgate Prison, Dublin, removal by Dublin Corporation (vs) 

18331/30 Barrow Drainage, Cloney railway bridge, Carlow branch (s) 

18464/30 Phoenix Park national school, Dublin, new playshed (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 18389/30 – 18510/30 

18389/30 Customs House, Dublin, proposed luncheon club and floor plan (p) (ms) 

18438/30 Carrickcarnon customs hut, Newry, post no.4 (qg) (p) (ms) 

18504/30 inscriptions to be placed on national schools (vs) 

OPW5 – 18514/30 – 18668/30 

387

18514/30 Beggars Bush barracks, proposed lettings to army officers (m) 

18637/30 Waterford post office, Custom House, works, vol 1 (m) 

OPW5 – 18678/30 – 18836/30 

18681/30 post of junior translator in Oireachtas, secondment of C O’Ceallaigh (s) 

18706/30 Forestry Department, purchase of portable railway for Dundrum Forest, 

Tipperary (m) 

18716/30 Leighlin Castle, Carlow, repairs etc (vs) 

18770/30 National Gallery, repairs to asphalt roof (ok) (wk) (vs) 

18794/30 Blackrock Hospital, electricity supply (s) 

18821/30 overhaul of ‘Fag an Bealach’ dredger (s) 

18836/30 grazing of conacre lettings, general file on policy etc (m) 

OPW5 – 18846/30 – 18934/30 

18846/30 Glencar garda station, Kerry, difficulties with rental portion of hotel (p) 

(m) 

18851/30 Government Buildings, passenger lift, South Block (m) 

18922/30 Four Courts restoration, requisition for special strong room and depository 

(p) (vs) 

18934/30 Post & Telegraphs, HP Broadcasting Station, Athlone, vol 1, works and 

plans (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 18937/30 – 19085/30 

18939/30 Post & Telegraphs, new Terenure telephone exchange, new erection, vol 

1, lease & plans (p) (m) 

19012/30 GPO, Dublin, central heating of shops (vs) 

19024/30 Lissycasey garda station, Clare, repairs (s) 

19081/30 dredgers, remuneration of crews (vs) 

19085/30 Cootehall garda station, Roscommon, permanent file, no 2, renovations etc 

(m) 

OPW5 – 19096/30 – 19190/30 

19096/30 Carlow employment exchange, inspections etc, lease, repairs (m) 

19102/30 Castle Lyons Abbey, Co Cork, repairs etc (sketch) (s) 

19125/30 Barrow Drainage, silting at Levitstown weir, Kildare (s) 

19133/30 Ballinamuck, Co Longford, vol 2a, closure of station (s) 

19148/30 Currency Commission, caretaker’s quarters (vs) 

19190/30 Kilmacow garda station, lease, alterations, compensation (m) 

388

OPW5 – 19193/30 – 19229/30 

19196/30 Ballinakill garda station, Laois, restoration file (m) 

19218/30 Customs House, Dublin, reconstruction, reshaping surrounds (p) (m) 

19222/30 food lift in Leopardstown Park Hospital (s) 

19230/30 GPO, Dublin, Block C, contract file (Hulls) (p, specs) (m) 

OPW5 – 19241/30 – 19404/30 

19287/30 holed stone from Ardristan, Co Carlow, acquisition, 1929-30 (s) 

19371/30 stoves in national schools (s) 

OPW5 – 19416/30 – 19496/30 

19416/30 Kilkenny employment exchange, 1910-30 (m) 

19433/30 coal supplies for dredger (s) 

OPW5 – 19508/30 – 19598/30 

19543/30 Ravensdale garda station, Louth, lease file (m) 

19559/30 Newgrange & Knowth tumuli, drawings and maps by Leask (eaten) (s) 

OPW5 19622/30 – 19678/30 

19622/30 Furbough College, Galway, delay in purchase as problems proving title 

(m) 

19675/30 Clonevan garda station, Wwexford, lease file (m) 

OPW5 – 19684/30 – 19770/30 

19687/30 Miltown Malbay garda station, Clare, vol II, works etc (m) 

19693/30 National Library, strong room ventilation (vs) 

19760/30 Registry of Deeds, Kings Inns, Henrietta St, state tenure (p) (s) 

19770/30 Paulstown garda station, Kilkenny, vol II, building file (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 19771/30 – 19989/30 

19771/30 Doonbeg garda station, Clare, building file (p) (m) 

389

19798/30 raths and forts at Attidermot, Galway, vesting (vs) 

19875/30 Clonakilty Agricultural School, superintendent’s residence, reports on 

condition (s) 

19901/30 paper read by TP Le Fanu on National Monument Bill, 1929 (s) 

19952/30 GPO, Dublin, water supply (s) 

19956/30 B.F. Maguire, establishment, dismissal for fraud (s) 

19979/30 alteration to Queens Theatre (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 20004/30 – 20154/30 

20014/30 Phoenix Park: proposed sanitary accommodation for ladies, 1930 (p) (s) 

20016/30 Phoenix Park; accident to workmen, Patrick Ryan,Wm Hillis (s) 

20089/30 establishment: application for employment by Denis McDonald and Wm 

Alford (s) 

20116/30 Celbridge garda station, Kildare, vol 1, lease and repairs (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 20158/30 – 20305/30 

20227/30 central heating of Papal Nunciature (m) 

20242/30 OPW district office of works, Killarney, administration etc (m) 

20286/30 Barrow Drainage, plant insurance (vehicles) (m) 

20395/30 Malin Head garda station, Donegal, works (ms) 

OPW5 – 20318/30 – 20360/30 

20318/30 broadcasting station, estimates generally, memoranda etc (s) 

20354/30 Ballivor garda station, Meath, vol 1, lease file (vs) 

20360/30 Fanore garda station, Clare, building file (p) (vs) 

OPW5 – 20362/30 – 20536/30 

20376/30 contractor for headstones, Curragh Military Cemetery (m) 

20436/30 Land Commission, 24 Merrion St, rebuilding parapet walls (p) (s) 

20453/30 Longwood garda station, Meath, repairs (s0 

20536/30 Moate garda station, Westmeath, lease file (ms) 

OPW5 – 20544/30 – 20604/30 

20544/30 Colaiste Brighde/Ballyconnell House, quantity surveyor (pg) (m) 

20604/30 College of Science, lease to UCD (bits) (l) 

390

OPW5 – 20605/30 – 20641/30 

20608/30 St Molua’s Church, Friar Island (p) (m) 

20639/30 National schools general, cost compared to technical schools (s) 

OPW5 – 20645/30 – 20921/30 

20645/30 papal flag for Nunciature (s) 

20680/30 repairs to Dooagh fish curing station, Achill (s) 

20747/30 Barrow Drainage, Michael Brien, ex-ganger (s) 

20820/30 Oireachtas Dail Chamber, decoration (s) 

20921/30 post of junior administrative officer (vs) 

OPW5 – 20936/30 – 21045/30 

20936/30 GPO, Dublin, reconstruction, Block A, business correspondence (ok) (m) 

21045/30 post of superintendent of typists (s) 

OPW5 – 21054/30 – 21287/30 

21173/30 Castleblayney boundary customs hut, vol 1 (p) (ms) 

21196/30 Barrow Drainage, Meaden, ganger (vs) 

21281/30 W.J. Veale, establishment, superintending clerk (vs) 

OPW5 – 21326/30 – 21538/30 

21326/30 Malin Head meteorological hut (g) (p) (s) 

21348/30 Dun Laoighaire post office, enlargement (p) (m) 

21416/30 National Museum, extension, rebuilding of annex (p) (m) 

21538/30 establishment: Dublin Castle, caretakers etc, 188-1930 (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 21544/30 – 21626/30 

21551/30 Phoenix Park motor car races, 1930, correspondence (ml) 

21575/30 Industrial staff, annual leave, 1929-30 (good lists) (m) 

OPW5 – 21446/30 – 21714/30 

21709/30 Swinford garda station, Mayo, building file (g) (m) 

391

OPW5 – 21716/30 – 21834/30 

21716/30 Headford garda station, Kerry, works file (p) (m) 

21808/30 Newtowncashel, garda station, Longford, purchase file (ms) 

21809/30 Central Heating Station, retirement of Wm Brennan, boiler attendant (vs) 

21818/30 Kelp stores on west coast of Ireland, memorandum (vs) 

OPW5 – 21862/30 – 21979/30 


OPW5 – 21981/30 – 22038/30 

21981/30 savings and excesses, estimates 1929-30, mostly financial (bits) (m) 

21982/30 monument preservation orders (forms) (eaten) (s) 

22017/30 British military cemeteries in Ireland, Birr, Co Offaly (ok, interesting) (s) 

OPW5 – 22079/30 – 22218/30 

22079/30 Glenamoy garda station, Mayo, purchase file (ms) 

22094/30 Baldonnel military aerodrome, reconstruction of barracks (p) (m) 

22100/30 Governor-General’s Residence, journeymen gardeners, correspondence 

(g) (m) 

22191/30 Dublin Castle: repair and restoration of stores, works (photo) (s) 

OPW5 – 22225/30 – 22263/30 

22254/30 Beggars Bush barracks, heating installation (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 22265/30 – 22589/30 

222294/30 motor mileage rates for traveling officers (s) 

22344/30 Castlebar post offices, renovations (ms) 

22421/30 HEO post, OPW candidates referenced (s) 

22440/30 Paris Legation, appointment of watchman (vs) 

22526/30 Phoenix Park signposts (p) (vs) 

392

OPW5 – 22603/30 – 22688/30 

22603/30 Mullinavat garda station, Kilkenny, rent file (m) 

22613/30 Castlebar Military Barracks, reconstruction (p) (m) 

22679/30 Governor-General’s Residence, furniture (m) 

22688/30 Donegal garda station, Donegal, works file (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 22692/30 – 22722/30 

2672/30 Drumcollogher garda station, Limerick (m) 

22698/30 Cobh Junction garda station, Cork, vol 1, acquisition and preliminary 

works (m) 

22722/30 Derry national school, Mayo, erection, £1467 (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 22749/30 – 22839/30 

22749/30 45 Upper O’Connell St, reconstruction, bill of variations (m) 

22770/30 establishment: carpenters-in-charge, Marlboro St District (s) 

22816/30 Ardnacrusha garda station, vol II, general (m) 

22820/30 Kinvara garda station, lease file (s) 

22839/30 establishment: employment applications, 1930 (m) 

OPW5 – 22868/30 – 22994/30 

22973/30 Stephen’s Green, alterations, Leeson St gates (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 23023/30 – 23140/30 

23023/30 Phoenix Park and Stephen’s Green, holidays of employees (bits) (ml) 

233058/30 misc employment returns (s) 

23118/30 GPO, Dublin, lockers for female staff (p) (vs) 

OPW5 – 23144/30 – 23228/30 

23191/30 Film Censor’s Office, sound projection apparatus (qg) (m) 

23193/30 Legation to Holy See, furnishings (ml) 

OPW5 – 23628/30 – 23309/30 

232309/30 Letterfrack garda station, Galway, temporary premises file (m) 

393

OPW5 – 23383/30 – 23599/30 

23448/30 drainage of Baldonnel Aerodrome (vs) 

23490/30 Collins Barracks, Cork, senior married officers quarters, reconstruction 

(wk) (m) 

23599/30 Government Contracts Committee, minutes of meetings, May- Dec 1930 

(m) 

OPW25/31 – 167/31 

27/31 National Monuments; Dun Laoighaire advisory committee, monument 

(eaten) (s) 

147/31 Phoenix Park army burial plot, Glasnevin, maintenance, T Maxwell, 

gardener (m) 

153/31 Government Buildings, Dublin, proposed electric heating (plan museum 

boiler-hse) (ms) 

157/31 Limerick post office, alterations and additional fittings (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 213/31 – 295/31 

213/31 Albert Powers execution of busts of Collins & Griffith (vs) 

295/31 Burnfoot garda station, Donegal, rent and repairs (m) 

OPW5 – 308/31 – 417/31 

367/31 64-65 Merrion Square, works (m) 

369/31 50-51 St Stephen’s Green, allocation of rooms (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 431/31 – 473/31 

431/31 Tralee garda station, electric lighting (p) (m) 

450/31 licence for excavation work, mostly forms (eaten) (ms) 

OPW5 486/31 – 598/31 

486/31 Ballyglass, Doonamona garda station, Mayo, temporary premises (m) 

588/31 Lecarrow garda station, Roscommon, lease file (m) 

590/31 Bowkeen garda station, Galway, main file (m) 

598/31 Ballyhaise, renovation of superintendent’s residence and gate lodge (s) 

394

OPW5 – 609/31 – 708/31 

609/31 Post & Telegraphs, carbontetrochloride fire extinguishers (lots bits) (m) 

613/31 excavations at Sheebeg, Leitrim, unauthorized (eaten) (qg) (s) 

651/31 M.F. O’Donoghue, junior executive officer, 1906-30 (m) 

655/31 floor-covering lino for Dublin garda barracks, 1910-30 (m) 

708/31 Governor-General’s Residence, furniture renewals (bits) (m) 

OPW5 – 712/31 – 730/31 

712/31 arterial drainage staff, temporary senior engineers (m) 

722/31 Saorstat Legation, Paris, new works adaptations (p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 739/31 – 852/31 

750/31 Land Registry, steel shelving in basement (p) (m) 

789/31 Dungarvan tower at garda station, vesting proposal (eaten) (p) (vs) 

OPW5 – 861/31 – 922/31 

871/31 Saorstat Legation, Paris, lease file (p) (ml) 

881/31 Russborough Demesne, offer of house and part of demesne for Irish 

Nation (m) 

OPW5 – 924/31 – 993/31 

924/31 establishment: claim by A.A. Murphy for removal expenses (s) 

925/31 Legations, exhibition of Dun Emer carpets (vs) 

988/31 Paris Legation, contract file, panellings (wk) (vs) 

989/31 Paris Legation, contract file, painting (wk) (vs) 

990/31 Paris Legation, contract file, heating (wk) (vs) 

991/31 Paris Legation, contract file, heating (wk) (vs) 

992/31 Paris Legation, contract file, locksmiths (wk) (vs) 

993/31 Paris Legation, contract file, electricity (wk) (vs) 

OPW5 – 994/31 – 1058/31 

994/31 Paris Legation, contract file, plumbing (wk) (vs) 

995/31 Paris Legation, contract file, carpentry (wk) (vs) 

395

996/31 Paris Legation, contract file, masonry (wk) (vs) 

1058/31 Lifford post office, fittings (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 1074/31 – 1145/31 

1120/31 list of monuments for consideration under National Monuments Act (int) 

(eaten) (s) 

OPW5 – 1157/31 – 1259/31 

1157/31 Irish varnish, quality etc for Board of Works (s) 

1158/31 Government Contracts Committee, minutes etc, 1925 (m) 

1159/31 Government Contracts Committee, minutes, 1923-25 (ml) 

1169/31 Kilcrohane garda station, Cork, building file (p) (m) 

1180/31 36 Lwr Leeson St, Charitable Donations etc (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 1267/31 – 1333/31 

1320/31 Currency Commission, work (ml) 

1333/31 Clonastee garda station, Laois, vol 1 (ms) 

OPW5 – 1338/31 – 1392/31 

1338/31 procedure for disposal of government property (minutes/memos) (m) 

1366/31 Pettigo garda station, Donegal, adaptation file (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 1406/31 – 1562/31 

1562/31 Tullyvin garda station, Cavan, building file (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 1571/31 – 1696/31 


OPW5 – 1706/31 – 1785/311 

1731/31 Shannon Navigation, transfer of control of navigation (m) 

1746/31 Botanic Gardens, supply of gate for entry to workshop (s) 

1750/31 Glencolumbcille Fisheries Industry Depot, reports and works (s) 

396

OPW5 – 1789/31 – 1944/31 

1885/31 instructions to assistant architects, excellent memoranda etc (m) 

1888/31 annual estimates, 1931-32 (bits) (m) 

1900/31 Thomastown garda station, Kilkenny, vol 1, works (m) 

OPW5 – 1960/31 – 1988/31 

1972/31 Myshall garda station, Carlow, vol II (m) 

1973/31 Moynalty garda station, Meath, vol I, temporary premises, works (p) (m) 

1982/31 Camp garda station, Kerry, main file (m) 

OPW5 – 2016/31 – 2211/31 

2016/31 National schools, plans and revisions, 1929, memoranda (s) 

2210/31 Killybegs garda station, Donegal, rent and repairs (m) 

OPW5 – 2233/31 – 2317/31 

2242/31 Munster Institute, Cork, poultry pens, egg laying competitions, nesting 

boxes etc (m) 

2298/31 compensation for retirements under section 10 of Anglo-Irish Treaty (s) 

2311/31 Achill Sound garda station, Mayo, permanent premises file (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 2321/31 – 2395/31 

2347/31 Mullinahone garda station, Tipperary, lease file (m) 

OPW5 – 2407/31 – 2683/31 

2407/31 Custom House, Dublin, heating (wk) (s) 

2663/31 Bruff garda station, Limerick, reconstruction file (np) (ml) 

OPW5 – 2690/31 – 2799/31 

2709/31 Rome Legation, repayment of security of deposit by lessor (vs) 

2789/31 Dun Emer carpets, External Affairs (s) 

397

2796/31 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, deputy-master’s qrs, vacated by Col Brase, 

Jan 1934 (m) 

2799/31 Dublin Civic Week, flood-lighting buildings etc (s) 

OPW5 – 2801/31 – 2863/31 

2845/31 establishment: collection of savings certificates subscriptions (s) 

2852/31 1 Palace St, official residence of Deputy Superintendent Garda Siochana 

(m) 

2863/31 Elizabeth Fort garda station, Cork City, works (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 2898/31 – 2928/31 

2898/31 Annyalta national school, Monaghan, new erection (p) (m) 

2915/31 Paris Legation, new furnishing file (m) 

2928/31 Drumkeerin garda station, Leitrim, adaptation file (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 2929/31 – 3114/31 

2929/31 garda new barracks proposed, memoranda etc (ms) 

2951/31 Croom Castle, Limerick, vesting proposal (eaten) (vs) 

3095/31 Fenit garda station, Kerry, rent and repairs (m) 

3099/31 Railyard garda station, Kilkenny, vol 1, repairs, reconstruction (m) 

OPW5 – 3124/30 – 3230/31 

(no file selection) 

OPW5 – 3238/31 – 3375/31 

3243/31 electric radiators in OPW offices (vs) 

OPW5 - 3400/31 – 3502/31 

3409/31 employment ex-army men on government services (s) 

3435/31 Governor-General’s Residence, room over harness room, stables, 

accommodation/finances (ms) 

3477/31 Donegal district OPW office, accommodation etc (m) 

398

OPW5 – 3508/31 – 3620/31 

3532/31 Leinster House, entrance gates, courtyard, entrance steps (s) 

3546/31 Hibernian Military School, maintenance of grounds (m) 

3549/31 Four Courts, judges room, electric heaters (lovely notice) (s) 

3571/31 Allenwood national school, new erection (p) (ml) 

3620/31 finding archaeological objects (eaten) (s) 

OPW5 – 3623/31 – 3733/31 

3642/31 Dun Laoighaire Harbour, arrangements for Eucharistic Congress (vs) 

3657/31 St Luke’s garda station, Cork City, restoration file (p)(m) 

3703/31 electric heater for Seanad, Oireachtas, Dail library (s) 

OPW5 – 3735/31 – 3830/31 

3735/31 establishment: Dublin buildings trade dispute (ml) 

3794/31 Garda general, transport water to rural stations (s) 

3806/31 Ballygar Forestry Centre, renovations/works etc (p) (m) 

3824/31 Lisnaras Fort, Co Louth, evaluation (eaten) (s) 

OPW5 – 3835/31 – 3840/31 

3837/31 Barrow Drainage, removal of obstructions in Lwr River, correspondence 

(s) 

3840/31 Downies Bay, maintenance of piers etc (ml) 

OPW5 – 3842/31 – 3995/31 

3842/31 Arterial Drainage Act 1925, purchase of excavators etc (lots bits) (m) 

3946/31 Clonmacnoise, preservation of carved stones (s) 

OPW5 – 4001/31 – 4184/31 

4001/31 cost of living bonus, 1923-30, 30 crushers etc (ml) 

4072/31 Dublin building trade dispute, clerks of works OPW (vs) 

OPW5 – 4190/31 – 4432/31 

4293/31 Fenit custom house, Kerry, official residence (m) 

399

4317/31 establishment: leave unpaid to several workmen, Oriel House stores (vs) 

OPW5 – 4438/31 – 4665/31 

4545/31 Garda married quarters, general memoranda (s) 

4610/31 Kilcrohane garda station, Cork, temporary premises (ml) 

OPW5 – 4709/31 – 4870/31 

4799/31 assistant architects, establishment (s) 

4810/31 Fermoy garda station, Cork, vol 1, renovations etc (s) 

4826/31 Science and Art Museum, repairs to glaze over central court (s) 

OPW5 – 4893/31 – 4982/31 

4912/31 Blacklion garda station, Cavan, main file, vol 2 (m) 

4939/31 vesting of St Nicholas Church (eaten) (s) 

4941/31 T Leahy applications for position of ganger (vs) 

4975/31 members of Oireachtas, instructions regarding communications (s) 

4982/31 establishment: shorthand and copying typists, appointment (m) 

OPW5 – 5028/31 – 5106/31 

5106/31 increase of rent, Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Act, general file (m) 

OPW5 – 5172/31 – 5271/31 

5172/31 Raheny garda station, Dublin, rent file (m) 

5185/31 Saorstat Legation, non-competitive contracts (s) 

5242/31 Dunshaughlin garda station, Meath, lease file (m) 

OPW5 – 5301/31 – 5374/31 

5330/31 Customs huts, St Johnston, alterations, works (p) (m) 

5332/31 Muinebeag garda station, Carlow, repairs, renovations, rent (ml) 

OPW5 – 5377/31 – 5508/31 

5479/31 Phoenix Park – boy labourer, M. Geoghegan, M Lawlor (s) 

400

OPW5 – 5510/31 – 5524/31 

Four schools 

OPW5 - 5526/31 – 5648/31 

5576/31 ancient and national monument, general, lists etc (s) 

5648/31 Ballyjamesduff garda station, Cavan, temporary premises (ml) 

OPW5 – 5654/31 – 5704/31 

5660/31 premises for sale of government publications, 5 Nassau St, leave (m) 

5665/31 Usnagh Hill, Westmeath (m) 

5669/31 Saorstat flags for London, High Commissioner’s Office (vs) 

OPW5 – 5706/31 – 5796/31 

5774/31 drowning accident at Lanesboro, Shannon Navigation (s) 

5796/31 Galway employment exchange (formerly garda station), vol 1, 1922-30 (p) 

(ml) 

OPW5 – 5815/31 – 6037/31 

5827/31 establishment: Arterial Drainage, employment of John Horgan (s) 

5875/31 St Patrick’s Chapel, Ardrass, Kildare (eaten) (s) 

5955/31 Buncrana garda station, Donegal, vol 1, lots works (p) (m) 

6023/31 Muine Beag garda station, Carlow, lease file (m) 

6037/31 Carrick Byrne garda station, Wexford, site purchase (m0 

OPW5 – 6046/31 – 6193/31 

6046/31 Lusk Government Farm, sale of produce (hay) (ml) 

6078/31 subsistence allowance, CS McNeill (vs) 

6193/31 Quilty garda station, Clare, works file (g) (m) 

OPW5 – 6209/31 – 6270/31 

6270/31 Killeagh Airship Station, lands/disposal/administration etc (ml) 

401

OPW5 – 6287/31 – 6421/31 

6304/31 Tyrell’s Pass garda station, Westmeath, lease file (s) 

6535/31 establishment: salary increments (m) 

6421/31 Saorstat Legation, Berlin, furniture (m) 

OPW5 – 6424/31 – 6533/31 

6473/31 Ballymacarbery garda station, Waterford, vol 1, works etc (m) 

6528/31 Monivea garda station, Galway, lease file (s) 

OPW5 – 6583/31 – 6685/31 

6583/311 Fergus DD, eel weirs (nice sketches) (ms) 

6565/31 Barrow Drainage, Ardreigh embankment (vs) 

6639/31 Fermoy post office, vol 1, preliminary works (m) 

6647/31 Ogham stones at Chute Hill, Tralee (eaten) (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 6687/31 – 6726/31 

6690/31 North Block, accommodation, Government Buildings (s) 

6717/31 Midleton garda station, Cork, works (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 6736/31 – 6902/31 

6740/31 J Morton (Central Heating Station), retirement (vs) 

6852/31 Custom House, Dublin, additional ventilation (ms) 

6890/31 Haulbowline, oil fuel installation (ml) 

OPW5 – 6903/31 – 7024/31 

6912/31 list of national monuments, Donegal (eaten) (vs) 

OPW5 – 7030/31 – 7141/31 

7089/31 Roundwood garda station, repairs, works etc (m) 

7094/31 comments on Landlord and Tenant Act, 1931 (m) 

7127/31 Four Courts, rubber paving (m) 

402

7137/31 publication of UK monuments commission (eaten) (s) 

7141/31 establishment: transfer applications to Gaeltacht housing scheme (s) 

OPW5 – 7150/31 – 7298/31 

7161/31 GPO, Dublin, requisition for furniture for accounts branch (s) 

7244/31 Cavan garda station (s) 

7264/31 Beggars Bush Barracks, accommodation for Dept of Lands & Fisheries etc 

(p) (m) 

OPW5 – 7313/31 – 7461/31 

7336/31 transfer of OPW industrial staff (s) 

7385/31 insurance for Saorstat Legations (s) 

7446/31 headstone contracts (military cemeteries), Kildare, Carlow, Leix, Kilkenny 

(m) 

7461/31 lists and instructions to Gardai respecting national monuments (eaten) (s) 

OPW5 – 7501/31 – 7649/31 

(no file selection) 

OPW5 – 7654/31 – 7783/31 

7689/31 Government Buildings, military accommodation, vol 1 (m) 

7751/31 establishment: assistant architects, various appointments (s) 

OPW5 – 7786/31 – 7864/31 

7790/31 caretaker to Grangegorman military cemetery (s) 

7792/31 Ballyleigh unauthorized excavation (eaten) (vs) 

7810/311 Barrow Drainage, financing of scheme (s) 

OPW5 – 7871/31 – 8149/31 

8012/31 North island of Aran, various monuments, 1906-30 (m) 

OPW5 – 8176/31 – 8315/31 

403

8240/31 Kilfenora garda station, Clare, rental file, acquisition (m) 

8249/31 Ballymacoda garda station, Cork, purchase file (m) 

OPW5 – 8316/31 – 8429/31 

8336/31 Buncrana harbour (m) 

8382/31 Castleisland garda station, Kerry, vol II, works (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 8447/31 – 8537/31 

8485/31 OPW drawing office equipment (ads) (s) 

OPW5 – 8569/31 – 8697/31 


OPW5 – 8699/31 – 8798/31 

8788/31 Moore Abbey, Tipperary (m) 

8793/31 Glenworth garda station, Cork (m) 

OPW5 – 8814/31 – 8841/31 

8841/31 Strokestown garda station, Roscommon, vol 1, remains, works (m) 

OPW5 – 8848/31 – 8953/31 

8848/31 Gorey garda station, Wexford, rebuilding file, vol 1 (p) (m) 

8878/31 Shannon Navigation, collector at Portumna, appointments etc (s) 

8945/31 Irish Land Commission, Upper Merrion St, electric heating (m) 

8953/31 Pearse St Sorting Office, new frontage line (m) 

OPW5 – 8963/31 – 9104/31 

8965/31 Stephen’s Green & Phoenix Park, chair contracts (m) 

9032/31 messenger, attendants, cleaners etc, sick leave etc (s) 

9058/31 Glenamoy garda station, file no 1 (m) 

404

OPW5 – 9116/31 – 9252/31 

9117/31 Roscommon garda station, vol 2 (p) (s) 

9252/31 Phoenix Park, motor car races, constables regulations (s) 

OPW5 – 9268/31 – 9375/31 

9304/31 Irish National Memorial, proposed monuments, correspondence 1928-311 

(m) 

9375/31 establishment: junior engineers and draughtsmen (m) 

OPW5 – 9409/3 – 9470/31 

9409/31 Post & Telegraphs, High Power Broadcasting Station, correspondence and 

plans (ml) 

9429/31 Dublin Castle, additional garage accommodation for Garda detective 

division (p) (ms) 

9440/31 Rathgormac garda station, Waterford, acquisition file (m) 

9454/31 GPO, Dublin, preservation of statues (vs) 

OPW5 – 9482/31 – 9686/31 

9598/31 Botanic Gardens, Orchid House, renewal of structural timbers (p) (s) 

9630/31 GPO, Dublin, new shop for 24 Henry St (vs) 

9631/31 list of national monuments in Co Meath (vs) 

9686/31 5-6 Ely Place, Dublin, tenure (ms) 

OPW5 – 9702/31 – 9845/31 

9714/31 druidical stone, Lankill, Mayo, inspections etc (vs) 

9754/31 Dolla garda station, Tipperary, building file (p) (m) 

9835/31 Botanic Gardens, new field, renewal of gates, fences etc (p) (ms) 

9836/31 Phoenix Park motor races, banquet of 13 th July 1929 and in 1930 (ms) 

OPW5 – 9852/31 – 9880/31 

9852/31 Tullyvin garda station, Cavan, temporary premises (m) 

9853/31 Milford garda station, Donegal, adaptation file (m) 

9874/31 Central Heating Station staff, installations generally in public buildings 

(ms) 

405

OPW5 – 9888/31 – 9967/31 

9897/31 J O’Donnell, temporary drainage engineer (s) 

9905/31 establishment: surveyors in arterial drainage (vs) 

9908/31 Doochary garda station, Donegal (s) 

9920/31 Ballyduff garda station, Waterford, main file, repairs etc (p) (m) 

9931/31 Oughterard garda station, Galway, provision of boathouse (s) 

OPW5 – 9969/31 – 10169/31 

9969/31 E.C. Maguire, clerical officer appointed inspector (s) 

9970/31 clerical officers, death of FR Kiely (vs) 

9993/31 Lissadell garda station, Sligo, adaptation (p) (m) 

9996/31 Whitegate garda station, Cork, building file (s) 

10010/31 Eucharistic Congress, erection of gates and bridges near Kilrush school 

(vs) 

10023/31 Shannon Navigation, general correspondence respecting closure from 

1900 (ms) 

10169/31 Avoca garda station, Wicklow, general main file (s) 

OPW5 – 10170/31 – 10215/31 

10170/31 Annagry garda station, Donegal, purchase file (m) 

10212/31 Four Courts, construction of the Supreme Court, bill of variations, some 

correspondence (p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 10252/31 – 10432/31 

10252/31 Murrisk national school, Mayo, erection, £1750 (m) 

10283/31 Botanic Gardens, iron railings at hostel (p) (s) 

10285/31 Custom House, Dublin, cleaning tympanum (vs) 

10289/31 Four Courts, internal fittings (ads) (s) 

10350/31 Governor-General’s Residence, internal renovation (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 10437/31 – 10516/31 

10464/31 Immigration Office, Cobh, office rents (m) 

10469/31 Saorstat Legation, Paris, new premises, furnishings (ml) 

406

OPW5 – 10526/31 – 10557/31 

10526/31 Collins Barracks, works, single officers quarters, reconstruction (m) 

10546/31 Carrick-on-Bannow garda station, Wexford (s) 

10557/31 Glenfarne garda station, Leitrim, building file (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 10558/31 – 10618/31 

10597/31 Phoenix Park staff, J Carroll, wheelwright (deceased), W Deaton etc (s) 

10605/31 Ramelton garda station, Donegal, lease file (m) 

10618/31 Saorstat Legation, Rome, works file, adaptations etc (Bewley) (m) 

OPW5 – 10624/31 – 10695/31 

10680/31 Beggars Bush Barracks, statistical office, erection of two lifts (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 10709/31 – 10742/31 

10736/31 Cobh garda station, Cork, lease file (ml) 

10742/31 Drainage Maintenance Act, 1924, correspondence 1924-31 (m) 

OPW5 – 10750/31 – 10956/31 

10804/31 return of unestablished employees aged over 60, 1 st April 1931 (s) 

10837/31 Ogham Stone, Carton, Co Kildare (vs) 

10877/31 OPW, first aid requirements in OPW workshops (s) 

OPW5 – 10960/31 – 11052/31 

10971/31 establishment: overtime on Land Bill 1921 (vs) 

11007/31 national schools: periodical statement of liabilities, 1890- (s) 

11080/31 vacancy for clerical officers in High Commissioner’s Office, London (vs) 

OPW5 – 11075/31 – 11157/31 

11083/31 establishment: claim for compensation under article 10, R McAuliffe (vs) 

11087/31 ruins of monastery at Rinerin, near Youghal (vs) 

11121/31 Ballyfeard garda station, Cork, vol 2 (p) (m) 

11132/31 Saorstat Legation, accounts received for furnishing, translation (vs) 

11134/31 Four Courts, lifts, tenders, plans, etc (ml) 

407

OPW5 – 11163/31 – 11349/31 

11271/31 Moate garda station, Westmeath, works (p) (ms) 

11349/31 Blacklion garda station, Cavan, purchase file, McGovern’s ruins etc (m) 

OPW5 – 11350/31 – 11466/31 

11498/31 Tarbert garda station, Kerry, purchase file (m) 

11511/31 Tullamore garda station, Offaly, building file (photos) (p) (ms) 

11558/31 Inland Revenue Offices, 14-15 Upper O’Connell St (m) 

11561/31 GPO, Dublin, shopping arcade, letting file no 2, 1930-31 (qg) (ms) 

OPW5 – 11598/31 – 11778/31 

11598/31 Four Courts, Dublin, heating contract, some correspondence (plans, specs) 

(m) 

OPW5 – 11823/31 – 11949/31 

11854/31 Currency Commission, repair of adjoining premises (vs) 

11869/31 Garda Siochana housing: accommodation for married men, general 

correspondence (ms) 

11945/31 Colaiste Ide, accommodation for chaplain (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 11952/31 – 12050/31 

11953/31 Ballymote garda station, Sligo, permanent file (m) 

11978/31 Eucharistic Congress, provision of drinking water for Phoenix Park 

congregation (ms) 

12698/31 Eucharistic Congress, facilities desired by general committee (m) 

12013/31 OPW staff, Cork buildings (vs) 

12031/31 National Museum & Gallery, repayment services (labourers) (vs) 

12034/31 Tralee employment exchange, 1927-29 (m) 

12050/31 estimates (much on garda station) and sanctions (vs) 

OPW5 – 12056/31 – 12144/31 

12075/31 Four Courts, internal distempering (vs) 

12079/31 OPW establishment: death of T Mac Inerney (s) 

408

12144/31 despatch of telegrams on public service (m) 

OPW5 – 12150/31 – 12266/31 

12198/31 Howth garda station, Dublin, works/building file (p) (ml) 

12207/31 Four Courts restoration, blinds (ms) 

12211/31 repair of flat asphalt roof of Dundrum Asylum (s) 

12257/31 Killargue garda station, Leitrim (s) 

12266/31 Moneygall garda station, Offaly, building file (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 12271/31 – 12387/31 

12372/31 Spiddal Pier, lots 1905-31 (history etc) (p) (ml) 

12387/31 headstone contracts, military cemeteries of Louth, Meath (s) 

OPW5 – 12396/31 – 12507/31 

12403/31 31 st International Eucharistic Congress (desks) (vs) 

12408/31 Barrow Drainage, minor streams (correspondence) (ms) 

12507/31 Sarsfield House, Kilmallock, vesting proposal (eaten) (photos, plans) (s) 

OPW5 – 12530/31 – 12630/31 

12563/31 Doonloughan, Cashla etc Fishery Kelp stores (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 12645/31 – 12824/31 

12720/31 Rossport garda station, Mayo (ms) 

12823/31 Nunciature demesne, paddocks (s) 

12824/31 Waterford artillery barracks, site clearance, relief of unemployment and 

distress (m) 

OPW5 12828/31 – 12946/31 

12884/31 Kells garda station, Meath, repairs etc (s) 

12927/31 Botanic Gardens, renewal of water pipes (vs) 

OPW5 – 12953/31 – 13073/31 

409

12953/31 Oireachtas buildings, Dail Chamber, alterations to public gallery (p) (m) 

12954/31 transfer of responsibilities from OPW to corps of army engineers, 


13000/31 Dublin Castle, resurfacing yards etc, concrete for cobbles (wk) (p) (s) 

13073/31 Ballylinan garda station, Queen’s County, purchase/letting (m) 

OPW5 – 13078/31 – 13194/31 

13078/31 Johnstown garda station, Kilkenny, lease file (m) 

13085/31 establishment: J.T. Moloney retirement (vs) 

13105/31 Mountmellick garda stationLeix, vol 1, purchase etc (m) 

13132/31 Inistiogue garda station, Kilkenny, vol 1 (m) 

13193/31 Preparatory national school, Marlboro St, Dublin (ms) 

13194/31 GPO, Dublin, Block A, appointment of quantity surveyor, Edward Smith 

(wk) (vs) 

OPW5 – 13208/31 – 13274/31 

13226/31 Tourmakeady preparatory college, Mayo, furnishing requisition (m) 

13259/31 Phoenix Park, hawkers (ml) 

13274/31 Four Courts, central office equipment (wk) (p) (vs) 

OPW5 – 13276/31 – 13339/31 

13303/31 Kilmaine garda station, Mayo, legal papers (m) 

13311/31 Waterford military barracks, adaptation for garda station, correspondence 

(m) 

OPW5 – 13345/31 – 13644/31 

13507/31 Dromore West garda station, workhouse site file (rejected site) (m) 

13508/31 William St garda station, Limerick City, works (p) (m) 

13514/31 proposed erection of public call offices, Four Courts (vs) 

13622/31 Governor-General’s Residence, furniture renewals (m) 

13644/31 Beggars Bush Stationary Office, internal painting etc (ms) 

OPW5 – 13647/31 – 13752/31 

13647/31 monuments taken over by local authorities, Carn, Binghamstown (vs) 

13726/31 Lettermore garda station, Galway, adaptation file (m) 

13728/31 Stationary Office, printing exam papers at Cahill’s Factory (m) 

410

13752/31 Barrow Drainage, correspondence with Thomas Henry (vs) 

OPW5 – 13833/31 – 13863/31 

13833/31 Four Courts, Foyer Block, completion, bill of variations (p) (ms) 

13845/31 proposed Income tax office, Castlebar (m) 

13851/31 Stephen’s Green, night watchman, appointments (ms) 

13856/31 Mount Temple garda station, Westmeath, lease file (m) 

OPW5 – 13866/31 – 14025/31 

13923/31 North Block, Government Buildings, redecoration of president’s room (s) 

13930/31 Four Courts, transfer of court from Dublin Castle (g) (s) 

14025/31 Letterkenny garda station, Donegal, lease file (m) 

OPW5 – 14030/31 – 14116/31 

14041/31 Lough Gur, stone circles, forts etc, inspections, drawings etc, 1911-26 (m) 

14040/31 Athlone old city wall (vs) 

14083/31 Clonakilty garda station, Cork, rent, repairs file (m) 

14104/31 OPW temporary clerk of works, allocation of staff etc (m) 

OPW5 – 14117/31 – 14319/31 

14226/31 Four Courts, reconstruction, electric lighting, correspondence (specs, 

plans) (ml) 

14294/31 employers liability insurance (bits correspondence) (m) 

OPW5 – 14333/31 – 14569/31 

14507/31 coastal defence works, Wicklow railway seeking loan, 1919-30 (gd 

reports) (ms) 

OPW5 – 14570/31 – 14699/31 

14517/31 Cobh OPW district office, camera (some photos) (ms) 

14563/31 Valentia Wireless Station, furniture and fittings (ms) 

14604/31 Judges chairs, Four Courts (wk) (p) (vs) 

14664/31 St John’s Road, extra engineering apparatus, test room (p) (ms) 

411

14662/31 RJ McGrath, application for employment as clerk of works, though a selfprofessed 

‘upholder of the British cause in Ireland’ (vs) 

14699/31 Barrow Drainage: access to Kilberry Island (m) 

OPW5 – 14703/31 – 14726/31 


OPW5 – 14730/31 – 14877/31 

14786/31 Dublin Castle, drainage, River Poddle, 1903-30 (p) (s) 

14876/31 Ballymote garda station, Sligo, site file (m) 

14877/31 Roscommon garda station, Roscommon (m) 

OPW5 – 14881/31 – 14993/31 

14882/31 King John’s Castle, Carlingford, broken lock (vs) 

14915/31 Arterial Drainage Act 1925, maintenance issues (s) 

14972/31 Dublin Castle, DMP barracks and superintendent’s residence (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 14997/31 – 15199/31 

15118/31 Phoenix Park, female lavatory attendant, appointments (m) 

15198/31 Oughterard Round Tower and Church, Kildare, 1894-1931 (m) 

15199/31 reprints of monuments from OPW reports (vs) 

OPW5 – 1205/31 – 15270/31 

15205/31 dredger ‘Fag an Bealach’, death of Capt James Tyrell, master (s) 

15216/31 Four Courts, reconstruction, contracts, North Block (ok) (m) 

15270/31 Lough Erne drainage scheme, cross-border aid (m) 

OPW5 – 15322/31 – 15571/31 


OPW5 – 15587/31 – 15785/31 

15587/31 Grousehall garda station, Cavan (s0 

412

15619/31 Ballinahown garda station, Westmeath, main file (s) 

15620/31 Four Courts, lease of plots to Corporation, Inns Quay and Chancery Place 

(plans etc) (m) 

15785/3 Inishmurray Church ruins, 1880-1931 (usual) (m) 

OPW5 – 15846/31 – 15938/31 

15924/31 Drumhallagh national school, Donegal, erection, £1589 (p) (m) 

15933/31 Governor-General’s gardens, staff etc (vs) 

15938/31 temporary clerk of works, applications responding to ad (m) 

OPW5 – 15948/31 – 16060/31 

15967/31 Granard garda station, Longford, building file (p) (ml) 

15957/31 Pol O’Fearghail, sick leave and ordinary leave papers (s) 

16016/31 Dail Eireann, reallocation of rooms (p) (ms) 

16058/31 Lackafinna Castle, Loughrea, vesting (vs) 

OPW5 – 16062/31 – 16146/31 

16146/31 drainage districts, supply of wheel barrows (ms) 

OPW5 – 16154/31 – 16241/31 

16154/31 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, appointment of governors and transfer of 

building (ms) 

16171/31 Four Courts, transfer of courts from Castle (vs) 

16176/31 Longford House, Dublin, Mary St (photos) (monuments) (s) 

16235/31 Finglas garda station, Dublin, improvements temporary premises (p) (m) 

16241/31 6 Harcourt St, works file (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 16250/31 – 16371/31 

16363/31 public buildings, chimney sweeping (vs) 

16371/31 Beggars Bush Barracks, works for stationary office (m) 

OPW5 – 16406/31 – 16625/31 

16406/31 Corofin garda station, Clare, lease file (m) 

16625/31 Newcastlewest garda station, Limerick, purchase file (ml) 

413

OPW5 – 16671/31 – 16796/31 

16636/31 Kilbreanty Old Church, Galway, vesting proposal (vs) 

16716/31 Land Bill, 1931 – overtime of officers, apportionment of drainage charges 

(m) 

OPW5 – 16810/31 – 16928/31 

16849/31 Leinster House, request for steam radiator/central heating (ms) 

16858/31 Annascaul garda station, Kerry, vol 2, restoration file works (g) (p) (ml) 

16865/31 establishment, JP Brennan (vs) 

16900/31 Haulbowline, labourers and ex-service men (vs) 

16912/31 RIA: rebuilding chimney stacks (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 16939/31 – 17112/31 

16939/31 New Ross garda station, Wexford, reconstruction and rent etc (m) 

16953/31 Four Courts, daily display of national flag (vs) 

16978/31 national schools, parliamentary question in respect of unused grants (s) 

17053/31 Headstone contracts, Limerick City cemeteries (ms) 

OPW5 – 17129/31 – 17214/31 

17219/31 Curragh Camp, administration and employment under Board of Works 

(ml) 

17129/31 Moynalty garda station, Meath, building file (p) (m) 

17141/31 Saorstat Legation, Paris, temporary chancery premises (vs) 

17152/31 Ennis Abbey, Clare, 1930-31 (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 17226/31 – 17356/31 

17258/31 6 Harcourt St, Cumann Gaodhail Stait-Seirbhiseach (p) (m) 

17259/31 accident at steps of Dublin Castle (vs) 

17267/31 Public Record Office, reconstruction of record office (vs) 

17337/31 Nunciature, Phoenix Park, building works (wk) (ms) 

17344/31 Nunciature, Phoenix Park, drainage works (wk) (s) 

17356/31 Gorey garda station, Wexford, temporary premises file (m) 

414

OPW5 – 17357/31 – 17588/31 

17364/31 23 St Stephen’s Green, passport office accommodation (p) (m) 

17459/31 Stephen’s Green, dismissal of night-watchman (s) 

OPW5 – 17613/31 – 17696/31 

17654/31 Ballymore garda station, Westmeath, adaptation file (p) (m) 

17669/31 Four Courts, reports in newspapers (p) (s) 

17696/31 Howth harbour-master’s uniforms (vs) 

OPW5 – 17702/31 – 17872/31 

17730/31 condition of lake at Governor-General’s Residence (vs) 

17787/31 Balla garda station, Mayo, reconstruction file (p) (m) 

17804/31 10 Hume St, Land Commission (m) 

17851/31 Athy Model School, 1910-31, repairs etc (m) 

OPW5 – 17877/31 – 17982/31 

17840/31 rates of remuneration for officers at criminal trials (vs) 

17943/31 Botanic Gardens, oil yard frames, reconstruction (s) 

17972/31 Coast life saving stations, supply of explosive stores (ml) 

OPW5 – 18006/31 – 18205/31 

18044/31 Four Courts, opening ceremony (s) 

18043/31 labour for transfer of courts from Castle (s) 

18046/31 Four Courts, state symbol, tapestry piece (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 18220/31 – 18329/31 

18400/31 Aclare garda station, Limerick, new bathrooms (p) (ms) 

18416/31 Stephen’s Green, greenhouses, staging for plants (s) 

18507/31 Raphoe garda station, Donegal, lease file (s) 

18508/31 Beaufort garda station, Kerry, purchase file (s) 

18517/31 Carrick garda station, Donegal (s) 

OPW5 – 18520/31 – 18608/31 

415

18530/31 Phoenix Park – gardens attached to Vice-Regal Residence, 1929- (m) 

18608/31 Muff customs hut, erection (g) (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 18611/31 – 18942/31 

18626/31 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, use of Great Hall for social functions (s) 

OPW5 – 18658/31 – 18744/31 

18691/31 The Rower garda station, Kilkenny, building file (p) (m) 

18764/31 Athea garda station, Limerick, purchase file (s) 

OPW5 – 18765/31 – 18918/31 

18765/31 Grange garda station, Sligo, lease (m) 

18857/31 state laboratory, reports, 1927-29 (qg) (m) 

18918/31 special war memorial in Glasnevin (s) 

OPW5 – 18925/31 – 19034/31 

18929/31 Phoenix Park, gatekeepers, appointments (vs) 

19000/31 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, evacuation of pensioners, Imperial Services 

Agency (m) 

OPW5 – 19037/31 – 19157/31 

19049/31 conference on steel structures, 16 th Oct 1930, London (s) 

19065/31 Trim ex-RIC barracks, disposal (m) 

OPW5 – 19158/31 – 19252/31 

19182/31 Kilmacduagh Church, inspections (vs) 

19196/31 Ravensdale Forestry Centre, Dundalk, works (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 19259/31 – 19384/31 

19244/31 Botanic Gardens, new propogating house and potting shed (p) (s) 

19307/31 Claremorris garda station, Mayo (s) 

19319/31 5-6 Ely Place, General Valuation Office, electric lights (m) 

416

19326/31 Oriel House, furniture stores, lighting (p) (ms) 

19384/31 customs huts, notice boards (m) 

OPW5 – 19388/31 – 19426/31 


19431/26 – 19486/31 

3 schools 


OPW5 – 19515/31 – 19864/31 

19648/31 Natural History Museum, lavatory accommodation (s) 

16968/31 Currency Commission, additional cloakroom accommodation (s) 

19864/31 Ardmore garda station, Waterford, vol 1 (m) 

OPW5 – 19868/31 – 19904/31 

19873/31 Griffith-Collins ceremony, 1928-31 (m) 

19904/31 Macroom post office, vol 1, preliminary works (m) 

OPW5 – 19916/31 – 20021/31 

19912/31 Redwood Castle, Tipperary, vesting proposal (vs) 

19952/31 Dail chamber, improvements to Ceann Comhairle’s room (p) (ms) 

20021/31 Dublin Custom House, various items correspondence etc (ml) 

OPW5 – 20047/31 – 202332/31 

20057/31 Roodstown Castle, Louth, vesting proposal (vs) 

20088/31 Barrow Drainage, Vershoyle’s footbridge (vs) 

20231/31 Phoenix Park, retirement of James Fanning, labourer, gratuity (vs) 

20232/31 Dublin Castle suggestions to give part of area to Dublin Corporation (vs) 

OPW5 – 20247/31 – 20429/31 

20247/31 Government Buildings, North Block, treatment of slippery floors (s) 

417

12032/31 Arterial Drainage, purchase of plant, excavators etc (m) 

20319/31 reduction of wages in building trade from 1 st August 1931 (m) 

20936/31 establishment: visits outside Saorstat (ms) 

20405/31 Waterford employment exchange, works (ml) 

OPW5 – 20446/31 – 20533/31 

20519/31 juror’s lists and OPW (list and address of employees) (m) 

OPW5 – 20540/31 – 20578/31 

20540/31 Ballyconnell House, extension file no 2 (p) (m) 

20539/31 Lisdoonvarna garda station, Clare, works file (wk) (ms) 

20568/31 Keadue garda station, Roscommon, ex-RIC barrack (ms) 

20569/31 National Library, Kildare St, improvements to reading room (p) (m) 

20572/31 Barrow Drainage, order book, complaints etc (vs) 

OPW5 – 20602/31 – 20733/31 

20707/31 establishment: Capt W Kirwan, master of ‘Saxifrage’ (s) 

20714/31 Barrow Drainage, confirmation of scheme (correspondence) (g) (m) 

OPW5 – 20736/31 – 20928/31 

20736/31 High Commissioner’s Office, London, near 215-217 Piccadilly (lease etc) 

(m) 

20740/31 National Gallery, supply of picture stands (vs) 

20776/31 Killyowen Fort, Galway, illicit excavation (vs) 

20848/31 Courts of Justice, finishing off, adjustments (p) (ms) 

20866/31 Custom House, proposal to cover areas (vs) 

20870/31 Cong Abbey, closing of burial grounds (vs) 

20906/31 Kilkenny City garda station (prison), works, vol 2 (m) 

OPW5 – 20932/31 – 21050/31 

20939/31 Inchronan Church, Clare, inspections (vs) 

20941/31 Stephen’s Green, watchman’s time detector (vs) 

20984/31 Greystones garda station, main file (s) 

21006/31 Kilnaboy Church, Clare (vs) 

21050/31 Ballinspittle garda station, Cork, lease/purchase file (m) 

418

OPW5 – 21052/31 – 21110/31 

21052/31 Templetuohy garda station, Tipperary, temporary premises (m) 

21075/31 Cork Broadcasting Station, works (m) 

OPW5 – 21113/31 – 21196/31 

21143/31 Ordnance Survey, flooding basement of printing block (s) 

21157/31 Kilkelly garda station, Mayo, main file (m) 

21181/31 Eucharistic Congress, use of Hibernian Military School (s) 

21187/31 Robert McGuirk, establishment 

OPW5 – 21228/31 – 21322/31 

21313/31 architectural staff OPW, general issues (exct) (vs) 

21322/31 Shevry garda station, Tipperary, vol 1, works (vs) 

OPW - 21324/31 – 21458/31 

21458/31 Revenue Dept, accommodation in Dublin Castle (m) 

OPW5 – 21460/31 – 21745/31 

21460/31 Windmill Tower on Vinegar Hill, Wexford, vesting (vs) 

21633/31 Carrageen Moss, proposed centre at Carna (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 21802/31 – 21911/31 

21803/31 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, furniture ownership, transfer to Chelsea 

Hospital, list of paintings (s) 

21836/31 Glyde drainage, general correspondence including floods (ml) 

21893/31 Board of Works and trade unionism (s) 

21895/31 Government Contracts and payment of unemployment insurance 

contributions (s) 

OPW5 – 21913/31 – 22111/31 


419

OPW5 – 22124/31 – 22219/31 

22151/31 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, storage of master’s quarter’s furniture (vs) 

22166/31 Kilmeedy garda station, Limerick, purchase file (m) 

22176/31 Ballydehob garda station, Cork, building file (p) (m) 

22219/31 Drumsna garda station, Leitrim, rent, repairs 9m) 

OPW5 – 22274/31 – 22365/31 

22274/31 Corpus Christi national school, Ballymun Road, Dublin, erection (specs, 

plans) (p) (m) 

22326/31 Castleblayney garda station, Monaghan, vol 1, works (p) (m) 

22350/31 estimates and expenditure and planned savings (m) 

22362/31 Ordnance Survey Office, army topographical section, works and repairs 

(s) 

OPW5 – 22366/31 – 22383/31 

22366/31 Athenry Agricultural School, works and repairs (p) (m) 

22378/31 Killucan garda station, Westmeath, rent file etc (m) 

22383/31 Bangor-Erris garda station, lease file (m) 

OPW5 – 22477/31 – 22632/31 

22508/31 Cork-Fermoy military cemetery (ms) 

22552/31 Collinstown Aerodrome, disposal (m) 

22569/31 Swords garda station, Dublin, purchase file (m) 

22619/31 Sligo garda station, installation of water closet (s) 

OPW5 – 22369/31 – 22709/31 

22650/31 national monuments, programme for clerk of works (s) 

22702/31 Rathdrum garda station (s) 

22709/31 Moville garda station, Donegal, adaptation (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 22217/31 – 22874/31 

22850/31 appointment of dredger masters, John Manifold and Patrick Garvey (m) 

22874/31 Phoenix Park, estimates/memoranda/finances, 1927-31 (bits) (ml) 

420

OPW5 – 22896/31 – 22996/31 

22946/31 Church Island (Waterville) ruins, Kerry, 1893-1910 (m) 

22947/31 Askeaton Castle, Limerick, 1895-1916, 1924-32 (m) 

22966/31 Barrow Drainage, correspondence with D. White (vs) 

OPW5 – 23035/31 – 23189/31 

23096/31 Garda Depot, removal of magazine and photographic hut (vs) 

23163/31 American Legation, works file (Chief Secretary’s Lodge (p) (m) 

23189/31 Donegal Castle, 1898-1937 (lots FS) (photos, plans) (damaged) (m) 

OPW5 – 23195/31 – 23314/31 

23271/31 Abbeymahon Abbey, Cork, vesting issue (vs) 

23274/31 Four Courts and Record Treasury, finishing works (specs, plans) (wk) (ms) 

23306/31 OPW architectural staff section dedicated to Garda Stations (s) 

OPW5 – 23361/31 – 23454/31 

23361/31 Royal Canal, maintenance quarterly reports, 1914-22 (bits) (ml) 

23377/31 Kilcommon garda station, Tipperary (s) 

23397/31 Tullamore post office, residence (m) 

23400/31 Eucharistic Congress, 1932, various erections (vs) 

23410/31 Eucharistic Congress, 1932, painting of public buildings (vs) 

23454/31 Eucharistic Congress, 1932, parking cars of prelates (vs) 

OPW5 – 23477/31 – 23524/31 

23506/31 Film Censor’s Office, supply of motor generator (s) 

23524/31 OPW staff in Blackrock, Leopardstown Park Hospital, reports (g) (s) 

OPW5 – 23537/31 – 23766/31 

23603/31 Borris garda station, Carlow, works (m) 

23733/31 military guard posts, Phoenix Park (ms) 

OPW5 – 23781/31 – 23884/31 

421

23781/31 Saorstat Legation, Paris, new works etc, vol 2 (m) 

23864/31 High Commissioners Office, York House, London, questions incidental to 

surrender of premises (m) 

23884/31 Kinnury ex-RIC barracks, Mayo, leased out (s) 

OPW5 – 23900/31 – 24032/31 

23949/31 headstones for Cork City cemeteries (ms) 

OPW5 – 24034/31 – 24114/31 

24055/31 High Commissioners Office, York House, London, lease file (ok) (ml) 

24073/31 Westport egg inspection hut (p) (s) 

24080/31 Dysart Old Church, Roscommon (vs) 

24081/31 employment applications, gangers etc (m) 

OPW5 – 24120/31 – 24170/31 

24140/31 Kevin St DMP, repairs to roofs, drains etc (specs, plans) (ml) 

24147/31 Manorhamilton garda station, Leitrim, rent and repairs (m) 

24170/31 Four Courts, accommodation for solicitor’s assistants, 1911-15 (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 24178/31 – 24309/31 

24259/31 Ballintogher garda station, Sligo, vol 1, general file (ml) 

24289/31 Dunboyne Church Tower, Meath (vs) 

24309/31 Tumgesh national school, Mayo, new erection (£2110) (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 24321/31 – 24408/31 

24349/31 GPO, Dublin, instrument room tables (wk) (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 24424/31 – 24495/31 

24491/31 St Mullins garda station, Carlow, vol 2 (ms) 

24495/31 Collon garda station, Louth, lease file (m) 

OPW5 – 24504/31 – 24591/31 

422

24522/31 minutes of Government Contract Committee, Jan-Dec 1931 (m) 

24564/31 Thomastown garda station, proposed garage (ms) 

24583/31 Stephen’s Green, enlargement of shed, concreting yard (s) 

OPW5 – 24615/31 – 24667/31 

24630/31 chapel royal, caretaker’s quarters, 1922-32 (m) 

24631/31 Oireachtas extension to provide member’s rooms and lavatories and 

accommodation (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 24677/31 – 24763/31 

24690/31 Bunninadden garda station, Sligo, lease file (m) 

24763/31 Ballintra garda station, Donegal, vol 1 (m) 

OPW5 – 24765/311 – 27541/31 

24766/31 Ballinamore garda station, adaptation and repairs (ms) 

OPW5 – 10/32 – 271/32 

10/32 Aughrim garda station, file no 1, preliminary works (m) 

OPW5 – 273/31 – 451/31 

295/31 Drumbane garda station, Tipperary, rent and repairs (m) 

307/31 shop signs at 24-25 Henry St, GPO arcade (ms) 

OPW5 474/32 – 703/32 

474/32 Shannon Navigation, transfer of powers and duties (ms) 

611/32 supply of lamps to garda stations (m) 

703/32 Rhode garda stations, Offaly, purchase file (m) 

OPW5 – 704/32 – 745/32 

704/32 Crown Alley telephone exchange, noise caused by hand trucks (p) (ms) 

708/32 14-15 Upper O’Connell St, Inland Revenue, installation of lift (p) (m) 

725/32 personnel file, chief accountant GP Fagan etc, 1861-1932 (m) 

423

727/32 Buncrana harbour, (m) 

745/32 Shannon Navigation, transfer of powers (ms0 

OPW5 – 767/32 – 934/32 

767/32 lights and beacons – general file (vs) 

837/32 Four Courts, catering arrangements (m) 

904/32 national war memorial, contract for stone setts (ms) 

932/32 Four Courts, entrance from courtyard to law library (vs) 

OPW5 – 935/32 – 1145/32 

949/32 Elly Bay carrageen centre, Mayo, repairs (vs) 

1069/32 acting-master’s and engineers on dredgers (vs) 

1143/32 segregation of Government Buildings from Oireachtas (p) (m) 

1145/32 Workmen’s Compensation Act, various cases (ms) 

OPW5 – 1154/32 – 1262/32 

1154/32 office of registrar to chief justice, courts of justice (vs) 

1159/32 High Commissioner’s Office, London, new works (m) 

1175/32 Ballintubber garda station, Roscommon, temporary quarters file (m) 

1258/32 contracts for building works and supplies and changes in procedure (vg) 

(m) 

OPW5 – 1269/32 – 1325/32 

1269/32 Dromore West garda station, Sligo, ex-RIC barracks file (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 1326/32 – 1376/32 

1333/32 Dublin Castle, house no 6, structural alterations (vs) 

1336/32 Athenry Agricultural Station, superintendent’s residence (ms) 

1347/32 GPO & Custom House, Dublin, works (vs) 

1363/32 Swords garda station, Dublin, purchase file (m) 

1366/32 Adare garda station, Limerick, lease file (m) 

OPW5 – 1437/32 – 1551/32 

1454/32 Mooncoin garda station, Kilkenny, rent and repairs (m) 

424

1482/32 relief works at Hoey’s Court, Dublin Castle, carting (vs) 

1514/32 loan of lamps for Eucharistic Congress (vs) 

1525/32 Ardfert garda station, Kerry, rectory adaptation file, vol 1, (p) (m) 

1547/32 Ballyhaunis post office, vol 1, rent and repairs (m) 

OPW5 – 1676/32 – 1686/32 

1665/32 GPO, Dublin, Dockrell’s contracts for painting (wk) (ms) 

1686/32 Legation at Holy See, general file (acquisition etc) (exct) (m) 

OPW5 – 1704/32 – 1825/32 

1706/32 Science and Art Museum, wall sheeting in gallery in Art and Industrial 

section (vs) 

1732/32 Holycross Abbey, 1925-32 (m) 

1875/32 Phoenix Park, storm blows down timber (vs) 

OPW5 – 1831/32 – 1942/32 

1840/32 tarviating Upper Yard of Dublin Castle (wk) (ms) 

1850/32 School of Housewifery, Killarney, works (m) 

1862/32 Collinstown Aerodrome, rates (law case) (m) 

1864/32 waste water in leak and bursts, prevention (ms) 

OPW5 – 1947/32 – 2045/32 

1947/32 Kilkenny Model School, repairs etc, 1921-32 (m) 

1965/32 Shercock garda station, Cavan, purchase file (m) 

2004/32 Nohoval Church, Kerry (vs) 

2042/32 occasional transfer of files & documents to Northern Ireland (ms) 

OPW5 – 2048/32 – 2056/32 

2056/32 Stranorlar national school, Donegal, building works file, erection (FS) (g) 

(p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 2065/32 – 2124/32 

2083/32 Governor-General’s Residence, lawnmower (vs) 

2092/32 Garda Siochana Depot, electric light (m) 

425

2096/32 Killenagh garda station, Waterford, rebuilding file II (ms) 

OPW5 – 2153/32 – 2190/32 

2188/32 allotments in Islandbridge, Inchicore North Estate clearance (m) 

2189/32 Macetown Castle, Meath (vs) 

OPW5 – 2223/32 – 2288/32 

2224/32 flags on public buildings, design of colour and manufacture (vg) (m) 

2227/32 arterial drainage, contracts versus direct labour (vs) 

OPW5 – 2333/32 – 2464/32 

2422/32 Donegal post office, vol 1, works (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 2466/32 – 2597/32 

2492/32 Barrow Drainage, petition for drainage of Moreen stream (vs) 

2527/32 Phoenix Park, drainage national school and flooding in park (ms) 

OPW5 – 2623/32 – 2744/32 

2623/32 Four Courts, seat for jury boxes (p) (s) 

2662/32 Irish National War Memorial, proposed layout (exct) (m) 

2736/32 construction for Dept of Agriculture (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 2746/32 – 2930/32 

2817/32 Dowth tumulus, 1880-1935 (sketches, plan) (ms) 

2818/32 Howth tumulus (vs) 

2819/32 Joseph Lamb, temporary clerk of works (vs) 

2837/32 Barrow Drainage, Cassidy and Company Ltd, Monasterevan (s) 

2890/32 GPO, Dublin, state symbol designs (p) (s) 

2892/32 carting and delivery of election equipment from Royal Hospital 

Kilmainham to trains (vs) 

OPW5 – 2933/32 – 3073/32 

426

2947/32 Garda Siochana Depot, Phoenix Park, alterations to ball alley (ms) 

OPW5 – 3086/32 – 3265/32 

3105/32 St Francis’s Abbey, Kilkenny (case of break-in) (s) 

3110/32 Maynooth garda station, Kildare, vol II, works (ml) 

3122/32 war graves, correspondence with Imperial War Graves Commission (m) 

3146/32 Ferns monastery, Wexford (vs) 

3225/32 Cork ex-British military cemetery, burials (ms) 

3265/32 establishment: adding and calculating machines (s) 

OPW5 – 3274/32 – 3409/32 

3274/32 Beaufort garda station, Kerry, temporary premises (m) 

OPW5 – 3413/32 – 3422/32 

3413/32 St Therese’s national school, Dolphins Barn, Dublin, new erection (large) 

(p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 3423/32 – 3460/32 

3423/32 Ballyconnell House, heating, lighting, plumbing extensions (p) (ml) 

3432/32 Four Courts, furniture requisitions (m) 

3445/32 Irish Land Commission, rebuilding parapet of 24 Merrion Square (s) 

3460/32 Tourmakeady Preparatory College, new erection, works (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 3463/32 – 3539/32 

3463/32 Ballinafad garda station, Sligo (m) 

3472/32 Ballyforan garda station, Roscommon, vol 2 (s) 

3539/32 Irish National War Memorial, portable railway (ad) (s) 

OPW5 – 3540/32 – 3626/32 

3540/32 new public offices, Merrion St, correspondence etc, 1911-22 (exct) (ml) 

3595/32 Donnybrook garda station, Dublin, furniture (p) (s) 

3623/32 transfer of Blackrock Hospital to Leopardstown Park Hospital (ms) 

3626/32 Causetown Castle, Meath (vs) 

427

OPW5 – 3656/32 – 3681/32 


OPW5 – 3689/32 – 3762/32 

3718/32 Eucharistic Congress, removal of turnstile at Islandbridge gate (p) (vs) 

3762/32 establishment: JJ Maguire, transfer to British civil service, London (s) 

OPW5 – 3769/32 – 3861/32 

3769/32 Eglinton St garda station, rent file (ms) 

3773/32 Foxford garda station, Mayo, vol II (s) 

3779/32 Kingwilliamstown, Co Cork, garda station (vs) 

3789/32 Donnybrook garda station, extra remuneration for yard cleaner (vs) 

3809/32 GPO, Dublin no 6, Post Office Buildings, rates question (s) 

3831/32 Phoenix Park, painting for Eucharistic Congress (s) 

OPW5 – 3866/32 – 4012/32 

3894/32 High Commissioners Office, London, new premises Piccadilly, furnishing 

(m) 

3941/32 Barrow Drainage, accident to Mr Long (vs) 

3968/32 Four Courts, protection against pigeons (vs) 

3999/32 Inland Revenue, 14-15 Upper O’Connell St, Dublin, electric lighting (m) 

OPW5 – 4018/32 – 4179/32 

4129/32 Kinsale post office and residence (ms) 

4179/32 Haulbowline, estimates 1932-33, rundown (vs) 

OPW5 – 4192/32 –4338/32 

4332/32 Garda Siochana Depot, Phoenix Park, redecoration of commissioner’s 

office (t) 

4337/32 Kenmare garda station, Kerry, vol II (vs) 

4338/32 Oranmore garda station, Galway, alterations file (m) 

428

OPW5 – 4371/32 – 4444/32 

4371/32 employment of ex-army men, general letters of application etc (m) 

4443/32 Skibbereen garda station, Cork, rent file (m) 

4444/32 destruction of confidential waste paper (vs) 

OPW5 – 4509/32 – 4549/32 

4509/32 United States Legation, Phoenix Park, furniture file (bits) (ml) 

4531/32 Manorhamilton garda station, Leitrim, bathroom (ms) 

4548/32 Drimoleague garda station, Cork, building file (np) (m) 

4549/32 Manorhamilton garda station, Leitrim, vol 1, rents mainly (m) 

OPW5 – 4566/32 – 4660/32 

4612/32 relief of unemployment, drainage works and site clearance (ms) 

4631/32 Moat of Granard (263) (vs) 

4641/32 coast erosion in Wexford, OPW inspection (vs) 

4651/32 Dublin Castle easement re Hoey’s Court (ms) 

4660/32 Louth garda station, building file (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 4667/32 – 4755/32 

4682/32 Post & Telegraphs/Inland Revenue, La Touche Bank (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 4765/32 – 4834/32 

4790/32 Oireachtas, furniture for extension/accommodation (p) (m) 

4823/32 aerials on public buildings (ms) 

4834/32 Castledermot Abbey, 1896-1932 (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 4839/32 – 4859/32 

4857/32 Foynes Harbour, proposed new jetty, loan report (ms) 

4859/32 Hibernian Military Academy, proposed use as preparatory college (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 4871/32 – 4958/32 

4871/32 Land Registry, messenger cubicle, works (vs) 

4873/32 Balbriggan garda station, Dublin, vol 1, works (p) (ml) 

429

4893/32 Kilkee post office (ms) 

OPW5 – 4968/32 – 5025/32 

4968/32 Castlebridge garda station, Wexford, site file (m) 

5008/32 Shannon Navigation, retirement of J. Killeen, collector, appointment of 

successor (ms) 

5025/32 Dept of External Affairs, accommodation, Merrion St etc (m) 

OPW5 – 5030/32 – 5112/32 

5032/32 Mayo Abbey (photo) (vs) 

5044/32 Courts of Justice, district courts, furnishing (vs) 

5059/32 progress reports, garda stations (poor) (ms) 

5078/32 Barrow Drainage, supplies ordered (m) 

5079/32 Shannon Navigation, annual estimates information, 1926-36 (m) 

5106/32 Butter Testing Station, water supply (ms) 

OPW5 – 5118/32 – 5149/32 


OPW5 – 5167/32 – 5221/32 

5167/32 OPW staff reorganization, divisions etc, 1927-32 (m) 

5207/32 Northern Ireland & OPW, drainage by trans-border schemes: 

memorandum (vs) 

OPW5 – 5232/32 – 5295/32 

5281/32 Paris Legation, oil supplies etc (bits) (m) 

OPW5 – 5319/32 – 5479/32 

5319/32 Galway Model School, proposed transfer to UCG (p) (ms) 

5450/32 Ring of the Rath, Rathgal, Wicklow (vs) 

OPW5 – 5503/32 – 5622/32 

430

5503/32 destruction of valueless documents in GRO (vs) 

5509/32 Hackballscross garda station, Louth, purchase file (m) 

5533/32 Millstreet garda station, Cork, installation of electric light (ms) 

5622/32 Ballon garda station, Carlow, vol II, works (m) 

OPW5 – 5637/32 – 5799/32 

5637/32 Four Courts, Record Treasury, shelving (p) (m) 

5688/32 Eucharistic Congress, exhibition of plans/pictures of Irish schools (4 

photos) (vs) 

OPW5 – 5803/32 – 5940/32 

5811/32 Dun Laoighaire harbour, visit of British war vessels (s) 

5813/32 North Block, Government Buildings, minister’s room, Dept of Finance 

(vs) 

5814/32 Barrow Drainage, Ardree Weir, and charging for fisheries works (ms) 

5835/32 Castlebar military barracks, electric lighting (m) 

5851/32 Barrow Drainage, supply of Ford trucks, 1930 model (ms) 

5890/32 disposal of 19 Eyre Square, Galway (m) 

OPW5 – 5945/32 – 5974/32 

5956/32 Passage West garda station, Cork, vol II (ml) 

5970/32 Leopardstown Park Hospital, lighting avenue (ms) 

5974/32 relief of unemployment, OPW proposals (s) 

OPW5 – 5989/32 – 6026/32 

5997/32 Stationary Office, supply of ferro-gallic photo-printing paper (m) 

OPW5 – 6055/32 – 6100/32 

6057/32 OPW, typewriters for architects (vs) 

6100/32 St Columba’s national school, Carrownedan, Mayo, new erection, £1400 

(p) (m) 

OPW5 – 6105/32 0 6217/32 

6203/32 Youghal Friary, Cork (s) 

431

6217/32 Workmen’s compensation, case of P. Haskins, 1914-32 (ml) 

OPW5 – 6220/32 – 6302/32 

6220/32 estab: distribution of responsibilities/services between commissioners of 

OPW (ms) 

6228/32 Rathfarnham garda station, Dublin, temporary premises (m) 

6362/32 Eucharistic Congress, cleaning furniture of Hibernian Military Academy 

(vs) 

OPW5 – 6364/32 – 6515/32 

6364/32 Eucharistic Congress, provision for catering (ms) 

6439/32 Leopardstown Park Hospital, adaptation for hospital, 1931-32 (p) (m) 

6515/32 Ballinasloe garda station, Galway, acquisition of site (m) 

OPW5 – 6524/32 – 6660/32 

6527/32 Pearse St Sorting Office, alterations (m) 

6534/32 Colaiste Mhuire/Tourmakeady, works (m) 

6548/32 Barrow Drainage, report of Dorgan & Smith (s) 

6607/32 OPW, pedestal tables (s) 

OPW5 – 6664/32 – 6758/32 

6664/32 committee suggestions for improvements to Oireachtas (p) (ms) 

6682/32 Nunciature, complaint about damp (m) 

6686/32 Ashbourne garda station, Meath, lease file (ms) 

6717/32 Stephen’s Green, light motor roller (bits) (m) 

6748/32 annual estimates, 1932-33, information etc (bits) (s) 

OPW5 – 6765/32 – 6897/32 

6781/32 Stephen’s Green, sanitary accommodation (m) 

OPW5 – 6901/32 – 6976/32 

6906/32 Rathmore Church etc, Meath, (FS) (p) (s) 

6959/32 Athlone Broadcasting Station & Eucharistic Congress programme: OPW 

gets much credit for hard work and efficiency (ms) 

432

6976/32 14 & 15 Upper O’Connell St, rebuilding file, vol 1 (Leask etc) (p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 6982/32 – 7140/32 

6982/32 establishment: appointment of chief engineers etc, 1904-32 (m) 

7055/32 Ardfert garda station, Kerry, purchase of rectory (m) 

7095/32 OPW district office, Cork (lot bits) (m) 

OPW5 – 7145/32 – 7204/32 

7157/32 Heichtons? contract, Kilkenny (m) 

7162/32 Registry of Deeds, residential office-keeper (ms) 

7167/32 Emyvale garda station, Monaghan (ms) 

7180/32 Moycullen knitting class (Dept of Fisheries), works (ml) 

7183/32 15-16 Merrion St, purchase (m) 

7186/32 Clonakilty Agricultural Station, provision of silo (ms) 

OPW5 – 7230/32 – 7267/32 

7237/32 annual estimates of OPW, memoranda, correspondence etc (m) 

OPW5 – 7277/32 – 7380/32 

7312/32 printing and typing in Irish language (m) 

7380/32 Garda Siochana – Acquisition of Premises Act (vs) 

OPW5 – 7394/32 – 7497/32 

7398/32 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Deputy-Master’s garden (s) 

7445/32 Oriel House, furniture staff (qg) (ml) 

7454/32 5 & 6 Ely Place, General Valuation Office, external painting (vs) 

7497/32 Bunclody garda station, Wexford, vol II (ms) 

OPW5 – 7524/32 – 7596/32 

7577/32 Custom House and Custom House Docks, Dublin, reversionary interest 

(m) 

7578/32 excavation at Coolis Hall, Wexford (vs) 

433

OPW5 – 7641/32 – 7744/32 

7647/32 Deansgrange cemetery, headstones (ms) 

7717/32 OPW and state funerals, Presidents, Kevin O’Higgins, Michael Collins etc 

(m) 

7735/32 Leopardstown Park Hospital, stocking boilers (ms) 

7744/32 Beaufort garda station, Kerry, main file vol 2 (s) 

OPW5 – 7762/32 – 7831/32 

7783/32 Cloughjordan garda station, vol II (ms) 

7817/32 Currency Commission, strong room, accommodation (ms) 

7831/32 Furbough House and barrack, preparatory colleges, general (bits) (m) 

OPW5 – 7832/32 – 7995/32 

7901/32 bothy attendant, Governor-General’s gardens (s) 

7903/32 OPW relief works, estimates discussed 1932-33 (vs) 

7930/32 Customs House, reconstruction, Butt Bridge (ms) 

7982/32 Kildorrerry garda station, Cork, compensation file (g) (m) 

OPW5 – 8009/32 – 8234/32 

8192/32 Dept of External Affairs, strongroom accommodation (m) 

8196/32 Dublin Division C, workshops in Beggars Bush barracks (ms) 

8198/32 Teelin weaving centre (lands/fisheries) (ms) 

OPW5 – 8238/32 – 8275/32 

8269/32 Grianan Aileach, Donegal, 1931-32 (s) 

8270/32 Kilbride Abbey, Offaly (vs) 

8275/32 Committee on allocation of premises in Upper Castle Yard (ml) 

OPW5 – 8282/32 – 8362/32 

8282/32 Carrigtwhohill garda station, Cork, accommodation (ml) 

833/32 Donnybrook garda station, fuel consumption (vs) 

8341/32 Ogham stone Derrymore, Kerry (vs) 

434

OPW5 – 8366/32 – 8478/32 

8415/32 Emo Park, report on condition (s) 

8448/32 Revenue, transfer of offices from Dublin Castle Clock Tower to main 

building (ms) 

8455/32 national monuments, monthly expenditure, 1916-40 (m) 

8457/32 Courts of Justice, laying lino (m) 

OPW5 – 8483/32 – 8597/32 

8483/32 Governor-General’s Residence, journeymen gardeners (m) 

8542/32 Barrow Drainage, suggested extensions (vs) 

8568/32 Bingham Castle, Co Mayo (vs) 

8597/32 Ballymageeragh Castle, Galway (vs) 

OPW5 – 8604/32 – 8712/32 

8626/32 Howth harbour water supply, 1873-1932 (ml) 

8628/32 Barrow Drainage, valuation and occupation survey (ml) 

8648/32 Eucharistic Congress, Hibernian Military School (use) (vs) 

OPW5 – 8713/32 – 8919/32 

8724/32 P.A. Bowles, drainage valuer (ms) 

8810/32 establishment: K.J. Dolan, marriage gratuity (vs) 

OPW5 – 8949/32 – 9122/32 

9061/32 estimates, military works, 1927-32 (m) 

9065/32 GPO, Dublin, Eucharistic Congress, search light on roof (vs) 

9122/32 Clontibret garda station, Monaghan (s) 

OPW5 – 9125/32 – 9259/32 

9226/32 Kill garda station, Kildare, restoration file (m) 

9257/32 establishment: arterial drainage, staff, clerical and executive (ml) 

OPW5 – 9263/32 – 9364/32 

435

9263/32 arterial drainage, correspondence with stationary office, re cost of printing 

(m) 

9341/32 Barrow Drainage, complaint of John Brophy (vs) 

9364/32 American Legation, fire in laundry (vs) 

OPW5 – 9370/32 – 9470/32 

9374/32 Dunmore garda station, temporary premises file (s) 

(c.40 Boxes of Files not examined) 

OPW5 – 15029/32 – 15146/32 

15059/32 establishment: declaration of fidelity, mostly routine (m) 

15047/32 Eucharistic Congress, supply of waste basket by congress committee (s) 

15076/32 Irish National War Memorial, Inchicore – macadamizing roads (gt ads for 

company) (ms) 

OPW5 – 15154/32 – 15194/32 

15174/32 Land Commission, slow combustion grates (m) 

OPW5 – 15220/32 – 15323/32 

15222/32 Ballycroy garda station, Mayo, vol 2 (ms) 

15265/32 Cork military cemetery, caretaker, wages case (s) 

15266/32 Leopardstown Park Hospital, cottages occupied by hospital staff (p) (ms) 

15267/32 GPO, Dublin, removal of lino (s) 

OPW5 15352/32 – 15395/32 

15382/32 DMP Bridewell station, provision of dining room (wk) (p) (s) 

15395/32 Courts of Justice, proposed improvement in seating accommodation (vs) 

OPW5 15400/32 – 15493/32 

15400/32 GPO, Dublin, additional callboxes (lovely letterhead) (s) 

15411/32 Sertown? Castle, Dundalk (vs) 

436

15468/32 Buncrana harbour, pier extension, old stone pier, new quay wall (m) 

15469/32 national monuments preservation orders, general file (s) 

OPW5 – 15513/32 – 15591/32 

15520/32 Newtowncunningham garda station, Donegal (ms) 

15522/32 Celbridge garda station, Kildare, acquisition of ex-RIC barracks (s) 

15536/32 OPW architectural staff, proposed reorganization, 1924-32 (m) 

15539/32 N Heffernan, labourer, Dun Laoighaire Harbour, retirement (vs) 

15540/32 P Barry, Dun Laoighaire sawyer, retirement (vs) 

15541/32 T Allen, Dun Laoighaire labourer, retirement (vs) 

OPW5 – 15614/32 – 15727/32 

15639/32 Castletown-Geoghegan garda station, Westmeath, reconstruction file (g) 

(p) (m) 

15568/32 Buncrana harbour, loan of diver and plant to raise wreck (ms) 

15659/32 Rathmullen pier (m) 

15718/32 Dublin contracts, 1931-32 (bits) (m) 

15727/32 Haulbowline, damage to submarine water main, repairs etc (m) 

OPW5 – 15776/32 – 15896/32 

15793/32 Imperial war graves commission, question of permanently marking graves 

in the Saorstat, headstone designs etc (m) 

15808/32 Barrow Drainage, bridge at Clonbrock (s) 

15840/32 Roscommon Abbey, preservation order no 3, 1906-32 (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 15900/32 – 15932/32 

15906/32 Mellifont Abbey, Meath, works and inspections (g) (ms) 

OPW5 – 15934/32 – 15983/32 

15934/32 technical schools, Castlebar, Westport, Ballina, Mayo (loans and plans) 

(m) 

OPW5 – 16012/32 – 16070/32 

16032/32 Kilworth Forestry Centre, reconstruction of bridge (ms) 

437

16034/32 Four Courts, telephones for clerk of works (vs) 

OPW5 – 16079/32 – 16154/32 

16079/32 comments on Civil Engineers Bill (1932) (m) 

16098/32 Kill o’ the Grange garda station, painting (ms) 

16126/32 GRO, ventilation and heating of strong room (vs) 

16148/32 Shannon Navigation, dumping on foreshore at Athlone (m) 

16157/32 Barrow Drainage, Cauchamore Ford, Clonbullogue Bridge (m) 

OPW5 – 16166/32 – 16234/32 

16223/32 Seanad Eireann, toilet accommodation, works etc (s) 

16231/32 Phoenix Park, traffic on race day, vehicular traffic generally (m) 

16234/32 Stephen’s Green, band performances (m) 

OPW5 – 16251/32 – 16383/32 

16313/32 establishment: applicants for assistant inspector of taxes, references etc 

(vs) 

16327/32 Stationary Office, contract for electric lighting, Beggars Bush Barracks 

(ms) 

16337/32 Stephen’s Green, trees (shelter belt) (s) 

OPW5 – 16405/32 – 16501/32 

16436/32 GJ Fogarty, clerk of works, personnel (m) 

16484/32 Oireachtas, drainage works (p) (vs) 

16501/32 Phoenix Park and Stephen’s Green, orders for bulbs (lots bits) (ml) 

OPW5 – 16520/32 – 16739/32 

16531/32 Oireachtas restaurant, reduction of servery and enlargement of kitchen (vs) 

16534/32 establishment: labourer’s wages, Dunmore East harbour (m) 

16539/32 Geevagh garda station, Sligo, lease file (m) 

16543/32 Duncannon garda station, Wexford, works (m) 

OPW5 – 16758/32 – 16957/32 

438

16758/32 Four Courts reconstruction, central block, east & west wings, pavilions 

(wk) (ok) (m) 

16881/32 Phoenix Park – works carried out for 31 st Eucharistic Congress (ms) 

16921/32 entrance gates to Inchicore/Longmeadows Estate (p) (m) 

16952/32 temporary architectural assistants and draughtsmen, appointments etc (m) 

OPW5 – 10969/32 – 17052/32 

17014/32 Drumacoo Church, Tipperary, 1913-32 (m) 

17030/32 Mountshannon garda station, Clare, main and building file, vol II (m) 

17040/32 relief of unemployment painting (s) 

OPW5 – 17054/32 – 17088/32 

17088/32 national schools, building grants, revision of rules of Department of 

Education, 1931 (ml) 

OPW5 – 17090/32 – 17191/32 

17180/32 Multyfarnham garda station, Westmeath, adaptation file (g) (p) (m) 

17189/32 Film Censor’s Office, sound projection apparatus (m) 

17191/32 Film Censor’s Office, 34 Molesworth St, maintenance etc (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 17260/32 – 17350/32 

17288/32 Barrow Drainage, suggested extensions (vs) 

17311/32 assistant architects, changes in allocation of districts, 1930-32 (g) (m) 

17332/32 14 & 15 Upper O’Connell St, shops and Inland Revenue offices, water 

supply, electricity (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 17353/32 – 17402/32 

17368/32 Central Heating Station, J Hyland stoker driver (s) 

17389/32 Barrow Drainage, cement supplies (ml) 

17393/32 Douglas garda station, Cork (m) 

OPW5 – 17408/32 – 17464/32 

17416/32 Garda CDB barracks (m) 

17463/32 Mallaranny garda station, Mayo, rent and repairs (p) (m) 

439

17464/32 Athy garda station, Kildare, vol 2, main file, works etc (m) 

OPW5 17507/32 – 17682/32 

17505/32 Athleague Bridge garda station, rectory, adaptation file (p) (ms) 

17508/32 Ballybay garda station, Monaghan, landlord file (m) 

17554/32 employment of men on drainage schemes (m) 

17569/32 Vocational Education Act, 1930, Athlone Technical School (p) (ms) 

17682/32 Eucharistic Congress 1932, Phoenix Park, renewal of railings (vs) 

OPW5 – 17704/32 – 17768/32 

17726/32 Burtonport garda station, Donegal, adaptation file (p) (m) 

17739/32 Oireachtas extension, leveling and maintenance of plots in front of 

building (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 17779/32 – 17956/32 

17779/32 Castlecomer garda station, Kilkenny, mains and water, 1908-19 (p) (m) 

17818/32 Arva garda station, Cavan, mains (s) 

17866/32 Long Stone Punchestown, Kildare, 1932 (four photos) (ms) 

OPW5 – 17960/32 – 18079/32 

18079/32 national schools, building grants, estimates, general correspondence (qg) 

(m) 

OPW5 – 18092/32 – 18293/32 

18204/32 Athlumney burial ground, Meath (vs) 

18214/32 Dept of External Affairs, South Block, Government Buildings, rooms 233, 

231, 235, 236 (ms) 

18240/32 treatment of wood block flooring, ‘flurit’ (ms) 

18251/32 garda stations: estimates, 1932-33 (general correspondence) (ok) (ms) 

OPW5 – 18313/32 – 18476/32 

18313/32 establishment: annual returns of employees aged 60 and over (ms) 

18340/32 egg inspection huts, North Wall, Dublin (pg) (ms) 

18357/32 Bunacurry national school, Achill, erection (£1276) (p) (m) 

440

OPW5 – 18489/32 – 18694/32 

18545/32 Oldcastle garda station, electric lighting (ms) 

18582/32 Muinebeag garda station, Carlow, electric lighting (ms) 

18647/32 General Valuation Office, 5 & 6 Ely Place, rebuilding parapet and 

chimney stack etc (pretty elevation) (p) (ms) 

18671/32 Central Bridewell works, various (ms) 

OPW5 – 18695/32 – 18830/32 

18697/32 36-39 Denmark St, broadcasting studio, lease (ms) 

18749/32 Kevin St Barracks, indoor lavatories (wk) (specs) (ms) 

18757/32 Store St barracks, indoor lavatories (wk) (ms) 

18812/32 Registry of Deeds, works and repairs, redecoration (wk) (ms) 

18830/32 Boyle garda station, Roscommon, main file work (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 18843/32 – 18978/32 

18852/32 Eucharistic Congress, loan of fire extinguishers (ms) 

18942/32 arterial drainage, OPW Property Department, examination of records 

system (ms) 

OPW5 – 18984/32 – 19095/32 

19011/32 Revenue Commissioners, accommodation in Dublin Castle (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 19097/32 – 19265/32 

19119/32 Bray garda station, Wicklow, electric lighting (ms) 

19149/32 Dept of External Affairs, dispatch of certain articles to Saorstat Legations 

(vs) 

9223/32 Oireachtas, extra accommodation, for ministers and secretaries (m) 

OPW5 – 19268/32 – 19351/32 


441

OPW5 – 19354/32 – 19520/32 


OPW5 – 19586/32 – 19678/32 

19660/32 Ballinrobe garda station, Mayo, vol 2, renovations, repairs (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 19686/32 – 19830/32 

19740/32 establishment: appointment of Batchen, engineer to Dept of Industry and 

Commerce, as Railway Inspection Officer (ms) 

19830/32 Tulsk garda station, Roscommon, ‘temporary file’ (m) 

OPW5 – 19838/32 – 19904/32 

19838/32 Kilrush Forestry Centre, repairs to lodges etc, dismantling disused 

buildings (m) 

19894/32 Revenue Commissioners: female sanitary accommodation, Dublin Castle 

(p) (m) 

19901/32 GPO, Dublin, fireplace in minister’s room (vs) 

OPW5 – 19905/32 – 20007/32 

19905/32 Haulbowline, savings and excesses (m) 

19922/32 Athenry Agricultural Station, proposed green house (ms) 

19950/32 Arterial Drainage Act, 1925, establishment of depot at Bruree, excavation 

machinery (ms) 

19989/32 Saorstat Legation, Paris, new premises, furnishing (m) 

OPW5 – 20040/32 – 20191/32 

20040/32 Brosna garda station, Kerry, vol II, works (p) (m) 

20089/32 establishment: clerical assistant to carpenter-in-charge (s) 

20182/32 Miss D. Mesias, shorthand typist, resignation (s) 

OPW5 – 20212/32 – 20395/32 

20514/32 boundary wall, Phoenix Park, works by military authorities (p) (s) 

20227/32 Bantry pier, Co Cork (p) (m) 

442

20233/32 Kildrum customs hut (ms) 

20395/32 Dublin Sorting Office, Pearse St, correspondence, 1925-32 (m) 

OPW5 – 20400/32 – 20508/32 

20482/32 Stradbally garda station, Leix, vol II (s) 

20508/32 Governor-General’s Residence, supply of grand piano (ms) 

OPW5 20525/32 – 20657/32 


OPW5 – 20674/32 – 20751/32 

20737/32 McCurtain St garda station, Cork (s) 

20751/32 Governor-General’s Residence, letting of garden on East side of back road 

(m) 

OPW5 – 20758/32 – 20895/32 

20850/32 Newtowncashel garda station, Longford, temporary premises (m) 

20880/32 Glendalough caretaker file (m) 

20895/32 Shannon proposed lowering of Lough Ree (m) 

OPW5 – 20905/32 – 21010/32 

20952/32 Fitzgibbon St DMP, barracks, works and repairs (wk) (m) 

20963/32 Dromore West garda station, Sligo, temporary barracks file, repairs etc 

(m) 

20982/32 Tourmakeady preparatory college, general correspondence (ms) 

OPW5 – 21017/32 – 21083/32 

21019/32 attempt to blow up monument of George IV in Kingstown (in 1871) (vs) 

21039/32 Cork bridewell garda station, reconstruction file, vol II, works (g) (m) 

OPW5 – 21096/32 – 21317/32 

21151/32 Athenry Agricultural School, sewage disposal (II) (m) 

443

21195/32 Currency Commission, counters (vs) 

21313/32 North Block, Government Buildings, basement (p) (s) 

21317/32 Corrandulla garda station, Galway, building file, vol 1 (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 21320/32 – 21462/32 

21421/32 Mr Brinsley R Le Fanu, temporary assistant engineer (age 70) (vs) 

21462/32 St Lawrence’s proposed boy’s school, Stillorgan (m) 

OPW5 – 21494/32 – 21559/32 

21494/32 return of lates, absences from duty, 31 st Oct 1932 (m) 

21503/32 Swanlinbar garda station, Cavan, vol 2, rents and repairs (m) 

OPW5 – 21598/32 – 21707/32 


OPW5 – 21735/32 – 21785/32 

21762/32 Cork post office, new sorting office, vol 1 (p) (m) 

21785/32 post offices, telephone operators chair, ‘avenue’ pattern (s) 

OPW5 – 21787/32 – 21933/32 

21865/32 Graiguenamanagh garda station, Kilkenny, vol 2, rent and repairs (m) 

21866/32 garda station, Carlow, provision of recreation room (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 21950/32 – 22076/32 

22004/32 Scariff drainage scheme, employment of P O’Brien (s) 

22076/32 Eucharistic Congress, June 1932, temporary removal of grates (ms) 

OPW5 22077/32 – 22262/32 

22083/32 Ballyheigue garda station, Kerry (ms) 

22262/32 renovation of residence, Athy Post Office, class 1 (m) 

444

OPW5 – 22290/32 – 22422/32 

22378/32 stationary office, outbreak of fire, 2 nd Feb 1928, precautions (ms) 

OPW5 – 22458/32 – 22599/32 

22498/32 Ballymoghany garda station, vol 2 (p) (m) 

22501/32 Donegal Town garda station, vol 2 (s) 

OPW5 – 22607/32 – 22710/32 

22708/32 Dept of External Affairs, press bureau (s) 

OPW5 – 22721/32 – 22884/32 

22727/32 Pallas garda station, Limerick, works (p) (m) 

22800/32 Barrow Drainage, Mountmellick area, extra drains (s) 

22865/32 Dept of Industry and Commerce, Lord Edward St, premises, alterations (p) 

(ms) 

OPW5 – 22930/32 – 22989/32 


OPW5 – 23021/32 – 23208/32 

23032/32 Rathmines post office and telephone exchange (new), main 

correspondence file, vol 2 (m) 

23051/32 Moycullen Centre, carrigeen moss, Galway (s) 

23161/32 head messenger, old resident post in OPW abolished, 1932 (problem of 

records) (s) 

23164/32 Dublin Castle, resident plumber quarters (s) 

OPW5 – 23215/32 – 23398/32 

23263/32 Buncrana garda station, Donegal, lease (m) 

23280/32 Oireachtas, improvements to ventilation (ms) 

23281/32 garage for post office engineers, Clarke’s Court, (p) (ms) 

445

OPW5 – 23428/32 – 23518/32 


OPW5 – 23528/32 – 23587/32 

23547/32 Glengarriff garda station, Kerry, vol II (m) 

23549/32 Dungarvan garda station, West Tower (ms) 

OPW5 – 23625/32 – 23669/32 

23639/32 Falcarragh garda station, Donegal, water supply (s) 

23648/32 Public Record Office, boiler explosion (s) 

OPW5 – 23714/32 – 23997/32 

23731/32 Post & Telegraphs, St John’s Road Factory, heating and damage caused 

by fire (ms) 

23985/32 Stephen’s Green, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, placing wreath at memorial (vs) 

OPW5 – 24015/32 – 24133/32 

24094/32 Major S.M. Clements, engineers personnel file (s) 

24107/32 Rathcooole garda station, Dublin, works (m) 

OPW5 – 24143/32 – 24246/32 

24203/32 Vice-Regal Lodge gardens, expenses (s) 

24206/32 Letterkenny garda stations, Donegal, adaptation file, no 1 (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 24248/32 – 24458/32 

24248/32 general file on Drainage Boards (s) 

24458/32 Fethard garda station, Tipperary, vol 1 (m) 

OPW5 – 24474/32 – 24614/32 

24612/32 Garda Siochana housing, plan for type 4 stations, proposed revision (p) 

(m) 

446

OPW5 – 24616/32 – 24696/32 

24616/32 14 Upper O’Connell St, Irish Tourist Association, works file (p) (m) 

24619/32 savings and excesses OPW (bits) (m) 

24642/32 Leinster House, senate chamber, lighting improvements (s) 

OPW5 – 24748/32 – 24820/32 

24764/32 headstone contracts, Waterford, Wexford, Kilkenny, Tipperary (m) 

24794/32 Irish National War Memorial, agreement with trustees (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 24821/32 – 24998/32 

24997/32 Oireachtas lavatory on upper floor (p) (ms) 

24998/32 Crolly carpet factory, Donegal, repairs etc (ms) 

OPW5 – 25007/32 – 25196/32 

25012/32 Oireachtas extension, furniture supplies (m) 

25014/32 Bourn Vincent Memorial Park Bill, comments (m) 

OPW5 – 25210/32 – 25290/32 

25219/32 Dundrum Asylum, extension to piggery (ms) 

25226/32 establishment: staff reorganization, Dec 1932 (vs) 

25228/32 comments on OPW, works on museum (vs) 

25234/32 Galbally garda station, Limerick (s) 

OPW5 – 25331/32 – 25377/32 

25351/32 Inveran garda station, Galway, works (p) (m) 

25365/32 Cavan employment exchange & Cavan court of referees (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 25456/32 – 25682/32 

25491/32 Carrickcarnon customs hut, illness and brick fire-places (p) (ms) 

25557/32 Museum Buildings, stone work, complaint by Storekeepers Union of 

Ireland (ms) 

447

25608/32 Illumination research, book on penetration of sunlight and daylight into 

buildings (ms) 

25680/32 estimate of £58000 for Ballyconnell House, purchase (m) 

25682/32 Clogher garda station, Donegal (m) 

OPW5 – 25684/32 – 25887/32 

25779/32 Government Contracts Committee, minutes June-Dec 1932 (m) 

25842/32 artificial lighting in National Gallery (vs) 

OPW5 – 25953/32 – 26071/32 

25965/32 Miss K Hessler, clerical officer (vs) 

OPW5 – 26072/32 – 26195/32 

26106/32 Gorey garda station, Wexford, vol II (s) 

26195/32 Rathmines post office, complete building (specs, draft) (s) 

OPW5 – 26217/32 – 26352/32 

26222/32 Barrow Drainage, relief works, Lwr Barrow (ms) 

26254/32 Post Office Stores, Infirmary Road, electric lift (m) 

26262/32 Malin Head wireless station (ms) 

26339/32 Custom House, relief works 1932, planting shrubs (g) (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 26357/32 – 26685/32 

26358/32 demolition of 16-17 Parliament St by OPW (2 lovely photos etc) (p) (m) 

26567/32 Turloughmore garda station, Galway, purchase file (m) 

26591/32 Rathmines new post office, leveling site and foundations (ms) 

26685/32 Muckross Estate Bourn Vincent Memorial Park, inventories (s) 

OPW5 – 26696/32 – 26777/32 

26696/32 correspondence re placing contracts, archaeological conference etc (m) 

26709/32 Stephen’s Green, outflow from lake (vs) 

448

OPW5 – 9/33 – 139/33 

13/33 distribution of garda barracks in Cork City (s) 

14/33 Dept of Lands and Fisheries – accommodation (m) 

97/33 Barrow Drainage, cost of main scheme (m) 

133/33 Oireachtas, telephone cabinets (s) 

138/32 C.R. Walshe, assistant engineer (vs) 

139/32 establishment, need for additional assistant engineer (vs) 

OPW5 – 155/33 – 248/33 

174/33 Portroe garda station, Tipperary (s) 

194/33 Leopardstown Park Hospital, staff etc (vs) 

195/33 Athlone Broadcasting Station, weekly photos to accompany progress 

reports (140 crisp black and white photos) (m) 

OPW5 – 265/33 – 329/33 

277/33 statements of relief schemes (s) 

304/33 St Dominick’s Abbey, Tipperary (s) 

529/33 Dunlavin garda station, Wicklow, vol II (m) 

OPW5 – 553/33 – 644/33 

553/33 disposal of moulds and casts from National Museum to Four Courts (s) 

615/33 Droichead Nua barracks, relief works, 1932-33 (m) 

OPW5 – 666/33 – 813/33 

694/33 architectural staff, supply of levels (ms) 

775/33 FJ Reilly, increment of salary (s) 

OPW5 – 820/33 – 931/33 

820/33 College St DMP, alterations (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 936/33 – 1127/33 

990/33 Muff frontier post, enlargement (p) (ms) 

1026/33 Pettigo garda station, electric light (ms) 

449

1127/33 preventive measures to be adopted in influenza outbreak (ms) 

OPW5 – 1163/33 – 1298/33 

1163/33 Cobh Junction, garda station, Cork, vol II (m) 

1164/33 Causeway garda station, Kerry, vol II, main file (s) 

1197/33 Custom House, Dublin, fire protection (s) 

1291/33 Errew Abbey, Mayo (s) 

1296/33 Bourn Vincent Memorial Park, maps (vs) 

1298/33 J. Chaloner Smith, assistant engineer/chief engineer, decease and obituary 

(s) 

OPW5 – 1302/33 – 1538/33 

1538/33 Westport harbour, dredging (m) 

OPW5 – 1584/33 – 1654/33 

1601/33 memorandum of OPW Professional and Technical Staff Association (s) 

1639/33 Ballyganly Castle, Cork (vs) 

1612/33 Riding School, Dublin Castle, conversion for DMP (s) 

1625/33 Government Buildings, segregation and safeguarding (ml) 

OPW5 – 1730/33 – 1796/33 

1766/33 Kilgarvan garda station, Kerry, main file (m) 

1796/33 Sligo-Belmullet steamship service, SS Tartar (ms) 

OPW5 – 1804/33 – 2140/33 

1890/33 Leopardstown Park Hospital, repairs to thatching stables (vs) 

1893/33 Moylough garda station, Galway (m) 

1931/33 Barrow Drainage, annual estimates, 1929-34 (m) 

1944/33 Saorstat Legation, Paris, hot water boiler (m) 

2023/33 plot of ground, Ely Place, sold for Royal Hibernian Academy (m) 

2036/33 Longford Technical School (p) (ms) 

2110/33 Ballynahuil? crannog, Offaly (s) 

2112/33 Lough Oona crannog, Monaghan (vs) 

450

OPW5 – 2145/33 – 2172/33 

2172/33 Haulbowline, relations between Board of Works and Petersen and Albeck 

(correspondence) (m) 

OPW5 – 2250/33 – 2575/33 

2252/33 Toberdaly Castle, Offaly, vesting proposal (vs) 

2268/33 establishment: messengers – allowances and appointments (m) 

?23660/33 Lohort Castle, Cork, vesting proposal (s) 

?23671/33 Dun Laoighaire harbour, tolls during Eucharistic Congress (bits) (m) 

2542/33 establishment: clerk of works file, J Garty (some exct general stuff) (s) 

2556/33 arcade shops, GPO, application of Miss M Devoy (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 2576/33 – 2857/33 

2664/33 assistant architect, J.H. Williams, various issues (s) 

2681/33 GPO, Dublin, space in parcel’s office (vs) 

2682/33 establishment: OPW workmen in Phoenix Park and St Stephen’s Green, 

reduction in wages (vs) 

2710/33 Garrymtinodagh? Moat, Wexford, vesting proposal (s) 

2711/33 establishment: J Bright retirement, lamplighter, Royal Hospital 

Kilmainham (s) 

OPW5 – 2927/33 – 2978/33 

2960/33 allotments in Inchicore North Estate (general info, memos) (vg) (m) 

2962/33 Kilteely garda station, Limerick (ms) 

2963/33 Johnstown Bridge garda station, Kildare, repairs, closure (p) (ms) 

2970/33 Eucharistic Congress, 1932, reception at state apartments, Dublin Castle 

(exct) (p) (ml) 

2978/33 Tyholland frontier post hut, Revenue, photo cover, ‘brick fire-place’ (s) 

OPW5 – 3039/33 – 3242/33 

3058/33 Athlone relief works, demolition etc (s) 

3169/33 establishment: furniture clerks branch, general information on branch 

(exct) (m) 

OPW5 – 3266/33 – 3465/33 

451

3271/33 National Library, proposed extension (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 3470/33 – 3541/33 

3470/33 Garda Depot, Phoenix Pk, alterations to married quarters, sanitary 

improvements (p) (m) 

3488/33 Athea garda station, Limerick, building file, vol 2 (vg) (p) (ml) 

3516/33 Dun Laoighaire, annual leave of harbour-master’s staff (vs) 

OPW5 – 3546/33 – 3706/33 

3546/33 Censorship of Publications Board, 5 Ely Place (vs) 

3584/33 Vetery College Ballsbridge, Coalhouse Laneway, decoration of 

caretaker’s quarters (vs) 

3618/33 St Kevin’s Park: Irish Training School of Domestic Economy, Kilmacud, 

outbreak of fire (caretaker’s quarters) (ms) 

3624/33 Templeboy Church grave slab, Straboe, Carlow (vs) 

3625/33 Castle Baldwin, Sligo, right of way etc (s) 

3626/33 ancient monuments on estate of Henry Breen, Carlow (s) 

3706/33 ‘Petrolux’, extincteurs, (fire: Post & Telegraphs) (ads) (s) 

OPW5 – 3710/33 – 3771/33 

3710/33 OPW district offices, Galway, various (m) 

3737/33 establishment: junior executive officers, appointments etc (m) 

3770/33 McKee military barracks, electric lighting proposal (p) (m) 

3771/33 Dept of Defence, Parkgate St GHQ, maintenance, 1928-36 (m) 

OPW5 – 3778/33 – 3862/33 

3800/33 arterial drainage, Minor Schemes Act 1928, general correspondence (gd 

bits) (m) 

3837/33 Stephen’s Green, removal of tree guards (vs) 

3838/33 establishment: works done by direct labour, time/material (vs) 

3844/33 Custom House, Dublin, alterations to Long Room, 1932 (s) 

3845/33 15-16 Upper Merrion St (Agricultural and Passport Office), works (ms) 

3853/33 Ardara lace class, premises (ms) 

3862/33 Coolaney garda station, Sligo (m) 

OPW5 – 3878/33 – 3974/33 

452

3938/33 Dublin Castle, restoration and additions proposed, 1933 (p) (ms) 

3961/33 Courts of Justice, premises for Irish Law Society and for Benchers, 

agreements file (m) 

3971/33 St Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle, window wire-guards (vs) 

OPW5 – 4009/33 – 4137/33 

4009/33 Rathmullen pier, Donegal, application for resident engineer (interesting) 

(ms) 

4045/33 Ballina egg inspection hut (s) 

4063/33 Athlone Broadcasting Station, acquisition of site file (s) 

4069/33 Kilworth garda station, Cork, works (p)(m) 

OPW5 – 4140/33 – 4328/33 

4207/33 installation of telephone silence cabinet, Oireachtas (vs) 

4281/33 Phoenix Park, deerkeeper (s) 

OPW5 – 4331/33 – 4388/33 

4377/33 state laboratory, College of Science, 1923-34 (m) 

4383/33 Kilrush garda station, temporary occupation of Vandaleur Arms Hotel (m) 

4388/33 Keadue garda station, Roscommon, reconstruction file (np) (m) 

OPW5 – 4393/33 – 4634/33 

4395/33 Glengevlin knitting industry, Centre, (ad for stoves) (s) 

4476/33 J Kearney, clerical officer, increments to salary (vs) 

4622/33 Dept of Defence GHQ, alterations to partitions (qg) (p) (ms) 

4630/33 Kiltoen garda station, Roscommon (m) 

4634/33 Laurence town garda station, Roscommon, adaptation file (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 4639/33 – 4857/33 

4639/33 John St garda station, Kilkenny, vol II (p) (ms) 

4721/33 resignation of Miss F Graham, shorthand typist (vs) 

4748/33 Muckross House, extending electric lighting to farmyard (vs) 

4849/33 P O’Fearghaill, dismissed in 1918 for refusal to take oath of allegiance, 

nervous breakdown in 1930 (m) 

4857/33 headstone contracts, Cork City and districts (m) 

453

OPW5 – 4858/33 – 4925/33 

4858/33 Barrow Drainage, cost of revision of main scheme (correspondence) (m) 

4867/33 Rathmines post office, structural steelwork contract (wk) (ms) 

4884/33 GPO, Dublin, french polishing machine (ms) 

4895/33 Rathmines garda station, Dublin, road widening (m) 

4897/33 Swinford garda station, Mayo, lease file (m) 

4977/33 contract for special memorial, Kinsale military cemetery (‘Old Abbey’) 

(p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 4928/33 – 5064/33 

4928/33 erection of new school, St Nicholas, Galway, £1,300 (p) (m) 

5031/33 Finglas garda station, Dublin, building file, vol 2 (p) (m) 

5038/33 Loughgraney garda station, Clare, building file (p) (m) 

5054/33 hire of rooms for Teelin Knitting Industry, Donegal (s) 

OPW5 – 5080/33 – 5208/33 

5187/33 government lands and houses let to tenants, management memorandum (s) 

5193/33 Blacklion garda station, Cavan, accommodation/disposal (m) 

OPW5 – 5216/33 – 5280/33 

5216/33 establishment: OPW Four Courts District, carpenter-in-charge (s) 

5279/33 evacuation of Governor-General’s Residence (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 5290/33 – 5471/33 

5339/33 national monuments propaganda: illustrated pamphlet (m) 

5353/33 Government Contracts Committee, recruitment through employment 

exchanges (s) 

5377/33 Government Buildings, preferential rates for electricity (m) 

5379/33 caretaker appointed to Dunbrody Abbey (vs) 

5450/33 Phoenix Park paths (vs) 

5461/33 Charleville garda station, Cork, works (p) (m) 

5468/33 Cashel garda station, Tipperary, installation of electric light (ms) 

OPW5 – 5478/33 – 5564/33 

454

5483/33 Athlone Broadcasting Station, partition and teak boxes (p) (s) 

5501/33 F. J. Connolly, carpenter-in-charge, Dublin District (s) 

5556/33 Bawnboy garda station, Cavan, lease file (m) 

5563/33 works for furnishing of National Health Insurance Commission, Custom 

House, Dublin, (p) (m) 

5564/33 Howth harbour, storm damage 24 th Feb 1933 (vs) 

OPW5 – 5565/33 - 5676/33 

5565/33 Ballyshannon garda station, Donegal, defective drains (p) (m) 

5580/33 courts of justice, refreshment room, lavatory accommodation (s) 

5586/33 Custom House, relief works, laying down grass and garden spaces (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 5681/33 – 5727/33 

5690/33 Dundalk garda station, Anne St, general works, repairs, rent (m) 

5725/33 Arterial Drainage, suggested hiring out of excavating machines (bits) (m) 

OPW5 – 5741/33 – 5840/33 

5741/33 establishment: acting carpenter-in-charge, rates (vs) 

5762/33 Blarney garda station, Cork, rent, repairs (m) 

5784/33 Cloonakilla graveyard, Roscommon (vs) 

5819/33 OPW library (press J, small room adjoining engineering, catalogue mostly 

a list of statutes) (ms) 

5840/33 Garda Siochana – abolition of stations, Dec 1929, general (ms) 

5834/33 Bray garda station, Wicklow, vol 5 (m) 

OPW5 – 5848/33 – 5954/33 

5853/33 OPW drawing office equipment, purchases (m) 

5929/33 Galway Training College, sketch plans, estimates (m) 

OPW5 – 5973/33 – 6123/33 

6008/33 annual estimates, OPW, 1933-34 (m) 

6043/33 Carrickfergus Castle, (vs) 

6075/33 Government Buildings: North Block, Industry & Commerce, decoration of 

minister’s rooms (s) 

455

OPW5 – 6125/33 – 6325/33 

6125/33 annual reports of Board of Works, 1930-31, material for draft report etc 

(m) 

6239/33 age of retirement of unestablished or temporary officials (s) 

6240/33 Rathdowney garda station, Leix, works (ms) 

6255/33 Custom House, Dublin, land to East of Custom House, railings and gate 

(p) (m) 

OPW5 – 6336/33 – 6469/33 

6348/33 exchequer contributions – Labourer’s Acts (m) 

6384/33 National Museum: Far Eastern Collection (& OPW) (vs) 

6386/33 storm damage report, DIVA, 24/25 Feb 1933 (vs) 

6469/33 establishment: temporary architectural staff (vg) (m) 

OPW5 – 6471/33 – 6612/33 

6471/33 annual estimates, OPW, 1933 – 34 (m) 

6476/33 Killeigh garda station, Offaly, general lease (m) 

6495/33 Dublin Castle, St Patrick’s Hall, reproofing and plastering (p) (ms) 

6599/33 Garda Depot, married quarters and electric lighting (ms) 

6612/33 Leopardstown Park Hostel, gas engines, electrical plants (ml) 

OPW5 – 6613/33 – 6738/33 

6693/33 Registry of Deeds, repair of cupola (ms) 

6710/33 Leopardstown Park Hospital, redecoration of wards etc, 1932 (ms) 

OPW5 - 6740/33 – 6885/33 

6780/33 Carrigans garda station, Donegal, adaptation file (m) 

6828/33 Ballyvourney preparatory college, proposals etc (s) 

6829/33 employment on Fergus embankments, reconstruction (vs) 

6834/33 GPO, Dublin, special fittings for public office, 1932 (p) (ms) 

6859/33 History of Dublin Castle, by McInerney of OPW (ms) 

OPW5 – 6886/33 – 6991/33 

6904/33 collection by Board of Works of loans arrears from farmers (vs) 

456

6921/33 establishment: devolution of commissioners to secretaries and heads of 

divisions, Feb 1923 (s) 

6950/33 Moynalty garda station, Meath, purchase file (m) 

6976/33 Castletimon ogham stone, Wicklow, purchase file (ms) 

6991/33 Barrow Drainage, scheme, flooding in general and some reports, 1920-30s 

(ml) 

OPW5 – 7007/33 – 7101/33 

7048/33 establishment: letter of condolence and obituaries incl Michael Carolan 

(IRA Intelligence) (ms) 

7085/33 establishment: accounts branch, HEO vacancy, G.D. Clancy (vs) 

OPW5 – 7117/33 – 7172/33 

7172/33 Tulsk garda station, Roscommon, building file (vg) (p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 7175/33 – 7291/33 

7179/33 Ramelton garda station, Donegal, vol 2 (ms) 

7187/33 Courts Justice, law library, telephone cabinets (ms) 

7207/33 Barrow Drainage, alleged interference with salmon fishing (ms) 

7210/33 Dingle Harbour, improvement scheme, 1929-32 (p) (ml) 

7237/33 establishment: dredger’s crews, overtime (vs) 

7264/33 P Rafter, Dun Laoighaire carpenter, dismissal (vs) 

OPW5 – 7296/33 – 7379/33 

7353/33 Ballyconnell House, supplies (m) 

7374/33 Valentia wireless station, supply girders in engine room (wk) (p) (ms) 

7379/33 Barrow Drainage, provision of cost for maintenance (vs) 

OPW5 – 7383/33 – 7458/33 

7389/33 Defence GHQ, laundry improvements (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 7459/33 – 7523/33 

7486/33 International Eucharistic Congress, letters of appreciation for Pearson and 

others (s) 

457

7498/33 Lagduff Lodge, Mayo, works 1930-3, incl footbridge (p) (m) 

OPW5 7527/33 – 7589/33 

7583/33 Slane Abbey, Meath, 1886-1932 (m) 

7585/33 Charlemont House, adaptations for Municipal Gallery (ms) 

OPW5 – 7606/33 – 7721/33 

7623/33 Convoy garda station, Donegal, temporary premises file (m) 

7701/33 Kilmanagh garda station, Tipperary, proposed site (m) 

7714/33 14-15 Upper O’Connell St, shops (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 7774/33 – 7933/33 

7838/33 Turloughmore garda station, Galway, new site file (m) 

7842/33 Trim garda station, Meath, adaptations of 1930 (p) (m) 

7914/33 headstones contract in Monaghan, Cavan (ms) 

7927/33 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, accommodation for garda tennis club (ms) 

OPW5 – 7957/33 – 8021/33 

8010/33 relief scheme at Mullinahone (drainage scheme, bridge) (p) (m) 

8021/33 Local Loans Fund, position of fund, 1917-34 (m) 

OPW5 – 8038/33 – 8192/33 

8038/33 Courts of Justice heating system and hot water, 1932-37 (p) (m) 

8092/33 Athlone Broadcasting Station, furniture (p) (ms) 

8160/33 establishment: Simon Gaskin, carpenter, dismissed (vs) 

8161/33 P McGivern, temporary clerk of works (s) 

8170/33 Barrow Drainage, lists of plans in storage in Hume St (s) 

OPW5 – 8196/33 – 8317/33 

8196/33 Castlebar military barracks, reconstruction, scrap metal (m) 

8237/33 Cork Bridewell garda station, provision of furniture (ms) 

8249/33 travelling expenses, engineering, CS McNeill (s) 

8310/33 destruction of King James Castle, Finglas (vs) 

8315/33 High Commissioners Office, London, general file including works (m) 

458

OPW5 – 8348/33 – 8395/33 

8358/33 Phoenix Park – aviation demonstrations (ms) 

OPW5 – 8400/33 – 8509/33 

8509/33 Aranmore garda station, Galway, lease file (m) 

OPW5 – 8531/33 – 8620/33 

8539/33 national schools, sunshine through windows (vs) 

8610/33 establishment: deputy secretary, Mr Veale, superintending clerk, Mr 

Luccan HEO (s) 

8620/33 Dublin Castle, Post & Telegraphs – Engineers – Block M, proposed 

centralization of P & T engineers in Leitrim House (m) 

OPW5 – 8625/33 – 8662/33 

8634/33 Post Office stores, Infirmary Road, renewal of electric wiring, 1932 (ms) 

8636/33 GPO, Dublin, Martin’s contract, Block D, (some gd corr.) (m) 

8658/33 Milltown Malbay garda station, Clare, new site (ms) 

8662/33 Strokestown garda station, Roscommon, site file (ms) 

OPW5 8663/33 – 8794/33 

8663/33 Glenbeigh garda station, Kerry, site file (m) 

8726/33 College of Science, utilization of government offices (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 8806/33 – 8861/33 

8808/33 Thorndale Research Laboratory, official residence (ms) 

8818/33 Daingean garda station, Offaly (m) 

8821/33 Currency Commission, presses destroyed (ms) 

8858/33 annual estimates, subhead E, compensation file (interesting) (ms) 

8861/33 Garda Stations, indoor lavatory accommodation (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 8873/33 – 8965/33 

459

8940/33 Oireachtas, furniture (p) (ms) 

8965/33 Muff garda station, Donegal, adaptation and building files (g) (p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 8983/33 – 9212/33 

9184/33 Ballinameen garda station, Roscommon (m) 

OPW5 – 9224/33 – 9330/33 

9224/33 Barrow Drainage, purchase of Fordson Tractor (vs) 

9239/33 Camross garda station, Wexford, tenancy (ms) 

OPW5 – 9331/33 – 9431/33 

9407/33 Bourn Vincent Memorial Park, inspection reports (ms) 

9414/33 Corrinshigagh garda station, Monaghan, vol 2 (m) 

OPW5 – 9437/33 – 9491/33 

9480/33 South Block, Government Buildings, Museum workshop, transfer of 

technical instit. (s) 

9491/33 Beggars Bush barracks, adaptation for Stationary Office (wk) (m) 

OPW5 – 9509/33 – 9659/33 

9612/33 arterial drainage, correspondence with TD over getting work for man as a 

ganger (vs) 

OPW5 – 9706/33 – 9852/33 


OPW5 – 9853/33 – 9977/33 

9961/33 Rathmore garda station, Kerry, temporary premises (m) 

OPW5 – 10010/33 – 10166/33 

460

10067/33 Athlone new public offices, drains and water mains, relief works (m) 

OPW5 – 10175/33 – 10397/33 

10175/33 sewerage works, archaeological finds during excavations (vs) 

10303/33 carns and caves at Knock North, Mayo (vs) 

OPW5 – 10399/33 – 10476/33 


OPW5 – 10478/33 – 10647/33 

10515/33 preparation of state apartments for state receptions, gratuities for overtime 

(vs) 

10526/33 garda stations, four year plan (s) 

10557/33 Ballineen garda station, Cork, rent and repairs (m) 

10605/33 Eucharistic Congress, use of Dun Laoighaire by Cunard Steamship 

Company (gd bits) (ms) 

OPW5 – 10670/33 – 10671/33 


OPW5 – 10672/33 – 10735/33 

10728/33 Currency Commission, steel shelving (p) (s) 

10735/33 Malin Head wireless station, water supply (s) 

OPW5 – 10773/33 – 10898/33 

10815/33 operation of cartels/combines in production of building materials (s) 

10837/33 Athlone new public offices (Revenue, Employment Exchange), general (s) 

10841/33 Longmeadows & Inchicore Estates, steelwork for new bridge (p) (ms) 

10886/33 R Nunan, late land loans inspector (s) 

OPW5 – 10909/33 – 10950/33 

10915/33 Stradbally garda station, Waterford, main file, vol III (m) 

461

10938/33 Four Courts, proposed stamping office etc (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 10964/33 – 11042/33 

11020/33 Louisburgh garda station, Mayo, temporary premises (p) (m) 

11029/33 Saorstat Legations, supplies abroad, general orders (ms) 

11040/33 Stephen’s Green, general maintenance (vs) 

OPW5 – 11048/33 – 11159/33 

11106/33 Vice-Regal Lodge, discussion as to possible future uses for the building 

(m) 

OPW5 – 11163/33 – 11318/33 

11264/33 Phoenix Park – main gates, Eucharistic Congress, decoration etc (ms) 

11312/33 Geological Survey Office, Hume St, fuel supplies (m) 

OPW5 – 11328/33 – 11481/33 


OPW5 – 11493/33 – 11687/33 

11533/33 Muckross/Bourn Vincent Memorial Park, improvement of roadway to 

Abbey (s) 

11589/33 OPW workshop, Griffith Barracks (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 11701/33 – 11790/33 

11701/33 Oireachtas restaurant flooding (vs) 

11734/33 Saorstat Legation, Paris, general file, 1930-33 (m) 

11778/33 Barrow Drainage, correspondence with Pims of Mountmellick (s) 

OPW5 – 11826/33 – 11959/33 

11827/33 Legation to Holy See, acquisition and adaptation costs (s) 

11843/33 Stephen’s Green, condition of park, rough boys, appointments (s) 

462

11845/33 Inchicore North Estate, bridge over railway, compensation to plot-holders 

(ms) 

11938/33 Berlin Legation, building works and maintenance, 1930-33 (m) 

OPW5 – 11971/33 – 11996/33 

11985/33 Dublin Castle, GS Detective Division (plan) (m) 

OPW5 – 12001/33 – 12024/33 

12011/33 OPW architectural staff etc and photography (bits) (m) 

12012/33 32 Upper Merrion St, works file (p) (m) 

12024/33 RIA, electric lighting and other works (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 12099/33 – 12134/33 

12031/33 Botanic Gardens, telephone kiosk (s) 

12041/33 Killala Round Tower, Mayo (1920s) (m) 

OPW5 – 12145/33 – 12476/33 

12324/33 public interest shown in the state apartments, Dublin Castle, 1930-33 (vg) 

(m) 

12334/33 Clontery Bridge, Barrow Drainage (vs) 

12352/33 Vice-Regal Lodge, head gardener’s house (s) 

12419/33 OPW staff reorganization, 1932-33 (ms) 

OPW5 – 12488/33 – 12558/33 


OPW5 12560/33 – 12713/33 

12737/33 assistant architects, rules and conditions of employment, 1932-34 (s) 

12775/33 Corrcullane tower, Cork (vs) 

12892/33 North Block, Government Buildings, passenger lift (file II) (m) 

12946/33 Vice-Regal Lodge, Phoenix Park, garden party (vs) 

463

OPW5 – 12964/33 – 13021/33 

13014/33 Collins Barracks, Cork, completion of reconstruction, sergt’s mess and 

canteen (p) (m) 

13019/33 Barrow Drainage Amendment Act, 1927, correspondence (m) 

OPW5 – 13047/33 – 13158/33 

13047/33 Roosky garda station, Roscommon, works (m) 

13081/33 St Mary’s convent national school, Rosslare, new erection, £1806 (p) (m) 

13157/33 carpenters-in-charge, instructions/duties (ms) 

13158/33 insurance of workers on drainage schemes (vs) 

OPW5 – 13168/33 – 13234/33 

13292/33 Department of Agriculture, showcase for exhibits at Spring Show (ms) 

13204/33 Timoleague Abbey, Cork, 1909-25 (m) 

OPW5 – 13242/33 – 13384/33 


OPW5 – 13390/33 – 13442/33 

13408/33 Athlone new government buildings, relief works, clearing of site (m) 

13410/33 Monaghan egg inspection huts (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 13444/33 – 13586/33 

13495/33 Lusk government farm, works file (m) 

13505/33 College St DMP barracks, works, adaptations (m) 

13515/33 Union Quay, Cork, drying rooms and bathroom (s) 

OPW5 – 13591/33 – 13596/33 

(four schools) 

OPW5 – 13597/33 – 13714/33 

464


OPW5 – 13724/33 – 13796/33 

13760/33 Barrow Drainage, Bert Cutting (g) (s) 

13792/33 dredger, ‘Saxifrage’, retirement of watchman, Pat Sharkey (vs) 

OPW5 13798/33 – 13842/33 

13799/33 Ballyglass garda station, Mayo, building file (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 13843/33 – 13852/33 

(four schools) 

OPW5 – 13856/33 – 13938/33 


OPW5 – 14001/33 – 14043/33 

14017/33 proposed garda station, Drumcondra, building file, no 1 (p) (m) 

14040/33 Glasslough garda station, Monaghan, permanent file (m) 

14033/33 Turloughmore garda station, Galway, works (s) 

OPW5 – 14050/33 – 14111/33 


OPW5 – 14117/33 – 14192/33 


OPW5 – 14215/33 – 14282/33 

14237/33 Creeslough garda station, Donegal, purchase file (m) 

14246/33 Kilkenny, Parliament St garda station, rent and works (m) 

465

OPW5 14283/33 – 14381/33 

14381/33 Tullaroan garda station, Kilkenny, lease file (ms) 

OPW5 - 14383/33 – 14502/33 

14939/33 Bourn Vincent Memorial Park, landing places/piers on lakeshore (s) 

14403/33 collapsible gate for lift, Currency Commission (s) 

14502/33 Ordnance Survey, Phoenix Park, maintenance of grounds, safeguarding of 

premises (ms) 

OPW5 – 14521/33 – 14678/33 

14952/33 explosives for drainage districts (s) 

OPW5 – 14680/33 – 14758/33 

14689/33 Bourn Vincent Memorial Park, salmon fishing (ms) 

14710/33 Tipperary waterworks (19 th century) (gd plan) (ms) 

14743/33 Clonmany garda station, Donegal, water supply (ms) 

OPW5 – 14765/33 – 14844/33 

14765/33 Rock of Cashel, registration of right of internment (ml) 

OPW5 – 14862/33 – 14698/33 

14862/33 Kilmeedy garda station, Limerick, temporary premises file (m) 

14876/33 electricity, gas boiling rings in government offices, Dublin (bits) (ms) 

14907/33 William Veale, graituity for widow (vs) 

14915/33 Dunmanway garda station, rent, repairs (m) 

14967/33 Oriel House, specs etc for office chairs etc (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 14971/33 – 15078/33 

14989/33 royal arms on public buildings, removal (GPO etc) (photo) (ms) 

15012/33 Drumshambo garda station, Leitrim, erection of gate (s) 

15078/33 GPO, Dublin, additional furniture, Block D (wk) (p) (ms) 

466

OPW5 – 15092/33 – 15183/33 

15107/33 Nunciature, gas, water, electricity, charges (bits) (m) 

15132/33 furniture list for state apartments, transfers (ext) (ms) 

OPW5 – 15188/33 – 15285/33 

15256/33 omnibus service being planned through Phoenix Park to the zoo, approved 

(s) 

OPW5 – 15287/33 – 15402/33 

15293/33 workmen’s compensation statistics, lists (g) (s) 

15313/33 Bansha garda station, Tipperary, reconstruction file (p) (m) 

15369/33 retirement of Richard Lawlor, labourer, Phoenix Park (vs) 

OPW5 – 15404/33 – 15465/33 

15463/33 Barrow Drainage, Mill Farm Bridge, rebuilding (vs) 

OPW5 – 15479/33 – 15599/33 

15479/33 Bourn Vincent Memorial Park, fee farm grant of estate in 1855, to A 

Vincent (vs) 

15485/33 TP Walsh, clerical officer, sick leave etc (vs) 

15511/33 Ardee Castle (in hospital grounds), Louth, vs) 

15512/33 Tinahinch Castle, Kilkenny (vs) 

15559/33 Oireachtas, mahogany lockers for deputies (ms) 

15575/33 USA Legation, Phoenix Park, repairs to furniture (ms) 

15587/33 relief grants, 1933-34 (vs) 

OPW5 – 15603/33 – 15721/33 

15605/33 Elly Bay, carrageen store, Mayo (p) (m) 

15669/33 agriculture and state forests, Coole House, Gort, Co Galway, repairs (p) 

(m) 

15701/33 Woodford garda station, Galway, vol 1 (m) 

467

OPW5 – 15724/33 – 15993/33 

15760/33 Limerick old gaol, demolition of Tholsel (vs) 

15810/33 Bourn Vincent Memorial Park, free passes for privileged persons (vs) 

15919/33 Coolderry House, Monaghan, vesting proposal (vs) 

15958/33 American Legation, works file (2) (vs) 

OPW5 – 15994/33 – 16283/33 

15994/33 Portumna garda station, Galway, vol 2, building file (p) (m) 

16146/33 Blackpool garda station, Cork City (m) 

memo on file: ‘this file has been examined and any papers therein which 

can be dispensed with at this stage have been destroyed’, M.C. Division 

D, 14/11/61 

16270/33 retirement of seamstresses, Mary Day and V.H. Doyle and application for 

compensation under article 10 of Anglo-Irish Treaty (s) 

OPW5 – 16294/33 – 16363/33 

16337/33 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, lamplighter’s quarters (s) 

OPW5 – 16365/33 – 16390/33 

(mostly schools) 

OPW5 – 16407/33 – 16533/33 

16407/33 Howth harbour-master and employees, general information, 1904-33 (ml) 

16430/33 head gardener in Phoenix Park and People’s Gardens, appointments (s) 

OPW5 – 16540/33 – 16692/33 

16540/33 Vice-Regal Lodge (Aras an Uachtarain), equipment for chapel (s) 

16642/33 Irish Folklore Institute, 33 Upper Merrion St (m) 

16649/33 Collins Barracks, Cork, single officers’ quarters (m) 

OPW5 – 16711/33 – 16801/33 

16745/33 Barrow Drainage Amendment Act, 1927, memos, Dail debates etc (ms) 

16768/33 Phoenix Park labourers, appointment file, various (m) 

468

16801/33 Laois Co Council seeks extensions to Barrow Drainage (vs) 

OPW5 – 16818/33 – 16955/33 

16923/33 Bourn Vincent Memorial Park, threshing oats and wheat, hire of machine 

(vs) 

16924/33 Enniskillen Castle, military castles (photos), maps (s) 

16938/33 Customs House, Dublin, Dept of Local Government, room 041, Block J, 

storage accommodation (m) 

OPW5 – 16962/33 – 17049/33 

16962/33 Scariff garda station, Clare, building file (g) (p) (m) 

16979/33 F.C. Calvert, land loan inspector, dismissed for invalid expenses claims 

(ms) 

17009/33 museum facilities for preserving wooden articles of archaeological value 

(p) (vs) 

17013/33 ecclesiastical remains, Clonea, Dungarvan (vs) 

OPW5 – 17053/33 – 17242/33 


OPW5 – 17248/33 – 17391/33 

17248/33 Land Commission and national monuments, memos etc (m) 

17283/33 Collins/Griffith/O’Higgins commemoration ceremony, arrangements, 

1932 (p) (s) 

17319/33 storm damage in Dun Laoighaire harbour, 24 th Feb 1933 (ms) 

17366/33 Saorstat Legation, Paris, repairs to furniture (m) 

OPW5 – 17392/33 – 17430/33 

17392/33 Tralee and Fenit harbour (m) 

17418/33 Central Model School, improvements, works (wk) (p) (ms) 

17426/33 compensation claim for damage to premises by Irish Army, M.L Condon, 

Cornmarket, Cork (g) (m) 

OPW5 – 17431/33 – 17508/33 

469

17431/33 Killarney School of Housewifery, reconstruction of laundry (m) 

17432/33 Colaiste Caoimhin, Moibhi Road, works (p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 17519/33 – 17548/33 

17519/33 Dublin Castle: reconstruction of roofs (p) (ml) 

17534/33 national monuments, list of vested monuments, revised (ms) 

17548/33 Ballyfair Estate, history of problems (m) 

OPW5 – 17550/33 – 17641/33 

17581/33 visit of Italian flying fleet, Valentia (ms) 

17609/33 Malahide garda station, Dublin, vol III (p) (m) 

17641/33 Lislaughlin Abbey, Kerry, 1902-33 (usual) (ml) 

OPW5 – 17647/33 – 17729/33 

17647/33 Custom House, Dublin, purchase of reversionary interest (m) 

OPW5 – 17732/33 – 17788/33 

17732/33 establishment; employment applications, overseers, foremen, gangers etc 

(m) 

17737/33 Dublin Castle, accommodation for chief state solicitor, no 2 house (g) (m) 

17788/33 establishment: writing assistants and writing clerks, 1932-33, 

appointments etc (m) 

OPW5 – 17789/33 – 17908/33 

17884/33 archaeological survey, general plans etc (ms) 

OPW5 – 17916/33 – 17986/33 

17982/33 Barrow Drainage coal contract (steam coal), 1930-33 (ml) 

17986/33 Kilmalkedar Church, Friary etc, Kerry, 1914-33 (ms) 

OPW5 – 18008/33 – 18063/33 

18029/33 Inchicore North Estate, new park, gate lodges (p) (ml) 

470

OPW5 – 18072/33 – 18140/33 

18072/33 Revenue Commissioners, estate duty office, Dublin Castle, additional 

accommodation, vol 2 (p) (m) 

18125/33 Pontoon garda boathouse, Mayo, lease file (ms) 

18131/33 Gorey garda station, Wexford, rebuilding file, vol II (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 18145/33 – 18277/33 

18145/33 office of Saorstat representative in Geneva, furniture (s) 

18259/33 Bourn Vincent Memorial Park, extra hand to assist milking in summer (vs) 

18275/33 Housing (Gaeltacht) Amendment Bill, 1931, comments (bits) (m) 

OPW5 – 18289/33 – 18466/33 

18289/33 Bonniconlon garda station, Mayo, vol 2 (m) 

18324/33 Phoenix Park air pageant, 6 th August 1933 (fatality), (lots photos from 

newspapers) (m) 

18383/33 Barrow Drainage, dismissal of three men (ms) 

18426/33 Barrow Drainage, complaint by Chris Behan (g) (vs) 

18430/33 list of S.O. Marine works with details (s) 

OPW5 – 18472/33 – 18529/33 

18476/33 Newtowncashel garda station, Longford, building file (m) 

18483/33 Castlebar garda station, Mayo, temporary premises file (ms) 

18484/33 Emly garda station, Tipperary, works (m) 

18512/33 Rock of Cashel, appointment of caretaker (s) 

OPW5 – 18540/33 – 18544/33 

18540/33 St Mary’s Marino boys national school, new school, £19045 (p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 18546/33 – 18636/33 

18568/33 Bundoran garda station, Donegal, lease file (m) 

18608/33 Athlone Broadcasting Station, vol 2 (wk) (vs) 

471

OPW5 – 18668/33 – 18762/33 

18762/33 transfer of Land Commission examiners to 93 Merrion Square (p) (m) 

18761/33 D.C. Weekes, clerical officer deceased, gratuity (vs) 

OPW5 – 18765/33 – 18885/33 

18768/33 assistant surveyors of buildings, Edward Twist and retirement of J 

Milward, c.1900 (m) 

18846/33 encroachment and rent, general correspondence, memos (ms) 

OPW5 – 18868/33 – 18983/33 

18959/33 Drumconrath garda station, Meath, purchase file (ml) 

OPW5 – 18984/33 – 19108/33 

18986/33 Bourn Vincent Memorial Park, letting of shooting and fishing rights (g) (s) 

18996/33 national schools, dual desks and cast iron standards (p) (m) 

19104/33 minor relief schemes, staff and work reorganization (exct) (ms) 

19055/33 Phoenix Park, death of engine driver, T Molloy, appointment of successor 

(s) 

19075/33 Buncrana harbour, works in general (m) 

19100/33 Mary McDonnell, personnel file (vs) 

OPW5 – 19111/33 – 19312/33 

19120/33 OPW Engineer’s Branch, Hume St, alterations (p) (m) 

19162/33 establishment: application for post of clerk of works (ms) 

19166/33 market cross, Cong, Mayo (4 photos, plans) (s) 

19167/33 Burncourt Castle, Tipperary, vesting (s) 

19303/33 establishment: Miss M.E. Ni Earnain, personnel file (s) 

OPW5 – 19426/33 – 19508/33 

19426/33 Meath Industrial School, Bray, loans, plans etc, 1890-1933 (p) (ml) 

19471/33 Oireachtas, accommodation for 50 uniformed gardai in College of Science 

(m) 

19474/33 Dowra garda station, Cavan, vol 2, works etc (m) 

472

OPW5 – 19510/33 – 19639/33 

19576/33 Cashel post office (new), vol 1, plans, preliminary works etc (m) 

19636/33 Phoenix Park, disposal of storm-blown and other timber (m) 

OPW5 – 19640/33 – 19686/33 

19660/33 Manorhamilton egg inspection hut (g) (m) 

OPW5 19690/33 – 19774/33 

19726/33 Kilkishen garda station, Clare (m) 

19757/33 Hill of Tara, Meath, 1920s, guardianship issue (m) 

OPW5 – 19801/33 – 19956/33 

19801/33 blinds for barracks, garda stations (m) 

19828/33 Barrow Drainage, inspection of works, Grand Canal Company (g) (vs) 

19914/33 Athea garda station, Limerick, building, vol 3 (s) 

OPW5 – 19801/33 – 20031/33 

19986/33 Lusk Government Farm, general administration (m) 

19990/33 OPW accommodation for staff, No. 51, plans (areas named) (s) 

OPW5 – 20032/33 – 20148/33 

20074/33 farm steward’s house, Athenry Agricultural School, repairs (s) 

20115/33 Kevin St garda station, repairs to roofs etc (s) 

OPW5 – 20168/33 – 20266/33 

20246/33 Inagh drainage district scheme, Clare, general strike on works (exct) (m) 

OPW5 – 20273/33 – 20379/33 

20282/33 alterations to Valentia Wireless Station (p) (vs) 

20360/33 Scattery Island Churches, Clare (s) 

473

OPW5 – 20412/33 – 20542/33 

20444/33 Annagry poplin factory, Donegal, improvements (s) 

20473/33 appointment of paper-keeper (ie registry clerk), 1911-33 (50,000 files in 

the OPW office c.1911, growing at rate of c.1000 per year) (exct) (s) 

each year, dockets received:, 1908 29208; 1910 – 31247; 1911 - 33198 

20504/33 OPW district office of works, Castlebar, 1925-33 (m) 

OPW5 – 20546/33 – 20635/33 

20601/33 Dun Laoighaire harbour, Carlisle Pier, customs examination arrangements 

(m) 

OPW5 – 20639/33 – 20784/33 

20779/33 Government Publications Sales Depot, Stationary Office, Nassau St, 

works, no 1 (m) 

OPW5 – 20816/33 – 20886/33 

20824/33 military headstones, Wicklow & Wexford (s) 

20880/33 Colaiste Brighde, Falcarragh, laying land in grass and concrete tennis 

courts (m) 

20886/33 Recess garda station, Galway, purchase file (m) 

OPW5 – 20901/33 – 20995/33 

20923/33 National Education Office, sundry works (m) 

OPW5 – 21004/33 – 21045/33 

21040/33 establishment: employment of professional and technical services (s) 

21041/33 William Bell, HEO, deceased, gratuity for widow (vs) 

OPW5 – 21051/33 – 21152/33 

21055/33 Cork Custom House, works (m) 

21118/33 appointment of private secretary to Minister of Finance (from OPW) (ms) 

474

OPW5 – 21155/33 – 21220/33 

21184/33 Drumlohan souterain/roofed by ogham stones, vested 1930s (5 brilliant 

photos) (s) 

OPW5 – 21223/33 – 21309/33 

21536/33 Currency Commission, furniture, removals and maintenance (m) 

21309/33 Scoil Brighde (practice school) 19 Earlsfort Terrace, sublease to UCD, 

works (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 21318.33 – 21438/33 

21324/33 junior executive officer, promotions (m) 

21406/33 Howth harbour, proposed site for morgue (p) (vs) 

21414/33 James Byrne, labourer in Phoenix Park, retirement (vs) 

21438/33 Film Censor’s Office, Kalee projector (vs) 

OPW5 – 21443/33 – 21486/33 

21486/33 Public Buildings, inspection of plant and machinery (vs) 

OPW5 – 21495/33 – 21559/33 

21495/33 Courts of Justice, parts occupied by non-governmental bodies (s) 

21502/33 proposal for useful legislative measures (s) 

21507/33 Old Blackrock Road garda station, Cork City, lease file (m) 

21527/33 lettering to be put on OPW vehicles, Phoenix Park (vs) 

OPW5 – 21571/33 – 21610/33 

21571/33 furniture clerk’s staff, 1929-33 (g) (m) 

21577/33 establishment: use of A.J. Carroll, clerical officer attached to resident 

engineer of Barrow Drainage (s) 

21610/33 Grangegorman military cemetery, war graves correspondence (m) 

OPW5 – 21614/33 – 21685/33 

21652/33 estimates for garda stations, 1933-34 (s) 

475

21664/33 fisheries, Roundstone knitting class, works and repairs (m) 

OPW5 – 21698/33 – 21781/33 

21706/33 Oireachtas, fire in Leinster House, reports etc (s) 

OPW5 – 21784/33 – 21827/33 

21795/33 smoke nuisances, methods of abatement, Central Heating Station and 

Shelbourne Hotel annoyed by smoke pollution (ms) 

OPW5 – 21831/33 – 21884/33 

21882/33 Dept of Agriculture, Athenry Station, works, painting etc (m) 

21884/33 Barrow Drainage, destruction of deteriorated explosives (vs) 

OPW5 – 21891/33 – 21991/33 

21969/33 Currency Commission, furniture supplies and renewals (m) 

21971/33 excavations at Lough Gur, Limerick (vs) 

OPW5 – 22006/33 – 22091/33 

22023/33 Four Courts, catering arrangements, experimental letting, Mrs Lawlor & 

Son (ms) 

22070/33 temporary draughtsmen, H.A. Croghan (s) 

22084/33 Howth Harbour, electric lighting on West Pier (s) 

OPW5 – 22092/33 – 22304/33 

22163/33 Pettigo garda station, Donegal, maintenance file no. 2 (s) 

22170/33 Hackballscross garda station, Louth, temporary premises (m) 

OPW5 – 22316/33 – 22373/33 

22316/33 proposed use of Kilkenny military barracks by Garda Siochana (m) 

476

OPW5 – 22382/33 – 22525/33 


OPW5 – 22546/33 – 22777/33 

22565/33 Ross Abbey, Galway (p) (s) 

22614/33 Bourn Vincent Memorial Park, duties of supererintendent and assistant 

architect (vs) 

OPW5 – 22784/33 – 22848/33 

22997/33 Killeeneemer Church, Ballindangan, Cork, 1933 (s) 

22798/33 employment of cabinet makers, John Traynor, Dublin Castle stores (vs) 

22833/33 Beggars Bush barracks, gymnasium (p) (vs) 

22839/33 O’Brien’s Bridge garda station, Clare, works (m) 

22848/33 Ballynoe garda station, Cork, building file (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 22850/33 – 22904/33 

22851/33 Broadford garda station, Clare, main file (m) 

OPW5 – 22910/33 – 23011/33 

22957/33 Donnybrook garda station, works file (wk) (vs) 

22983/33 accident to Daniel McAuley, working at Monasterboice (m) 

OPW5 – 23021/33 – 23128/33 

23045/33 Barrow Drainage, additional scheme no 2 (mostly legal information) (m) 

OPW5 – 23130/33 – 23227/33 

23200/33 Goleen garda station, Cork, building file (ms) 

OPW5 – 23234/33 – 23309/33 

23255/33 Coast life saving station, explosives stores (bits) (m) 

477

23298/33 complaints of trade unions re painting at Dun Laoighaire harbour, 1898- 

1933 (ms) 

OPW5 – 23318/33 – 23338/33 

23322/33 Industry and Commerce, proposals to house Employment Branch in house 

no.5, Upper Castle Yard (ms) 

OPW5 23340/33 – 23414/33 

23365/33 Bourn Vincent Memorial Park, stone crushing (g) (vs) 

23383/33 appointment of paper keeper (unestablished) to replace W Brown (retired, 

19/8/33) (s) 

23388/33 Ballinrobe garda station, Galway, main file, vol 2, works etc (p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 23419/33 – 23484/33 

23457/33 general memos on inadequate accommodation in civil service (vs) 

OPW5 – 23498/33 – 23559/33 


OPW5 – 23565/33 – 23762/33 

23586/33 transfer of personnel to and from Saorstat (to UK) (s) 

23669/33 Bruree garda station, Limerick (m) 

23679/33 unauthorised excavations at Emylough, Monaghan (Shane Leslie) (vs) 

23762/33 establishment: application for positions as gangers on Mulkear River 

Drainage scheme (s) 

OPW5 – 23782/33 – 23794/33 

23782/33 district office of works, OPW, Galway (general file) (p) (m) 

23787/33 Irish National War Memorial Park, Inchicore, new railway bridge (wk) (p) 

(m) 

23719/33 question of overhead charges exacted from non-government departments 

(ie Currency Commission or US Ambassador’s residence etc) (m) 

23794/33 Boston garda station hut, Clare, disposal (ms) 

478

OPW5 – 23796/33 – 23903/33 

23811/33 Hibernian Military School, caretaker, 1929-33 (ml) 

OPW5 – 23934/33 – 23970/33 

23934/33 headstones and war graves, Longford & Westmeath (ms) 

23945/33 Marine works, general instructions and general correspondence (exct) (m) 

23970/33 Ballybofey garda station, Donegal, vol 2 (s) 

23971/33 National Museum, reports of Board of Visitors, 1926-32 (m) 

OPW5 – 23981/33 – 24905/33 

24023/33 use of Irish slates, Collins Barracks, Cork (s) 

24079/33 Stephen’s Green, disorderly conduct, attack on constables (s) 

24047/33 Kanturk garda station, Cork (m) 

OPW5 – 24098/33 – 24147/33 

24112/33 state apartments, Dublin Castle, quarters for housekeeper and guide (s) 

24122/33 Templetuohy garda station, Tipperary, building file no. II (g) (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 24168/33 – 24200/33 

24187/33 metropolitan garda barracks, Griffith Avenue, site acquisition (m) 

24189/33 Puckane garda station, Tipperary, vol 1 (m0 

OPW5 – 24202/33 – 24376/33 


OPW5 – 24386/33 – 24436/33 

24392/33 Barrow Drainage, acquisition of water rights (vs) 

24433/33 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, ground at Islandbridge, 1904-33 (pumping 

station) (m) 

24436/33 Vice-Regal Lodge, tennis courts, maintenance (m) 

479

OPW5 – 24438/33 – 24546/33 

24462/33 Duagh Church, Listowel, Kerry (vs) 

24534/33 Courts of Justice, catering arrangements, restaurant equipment etc (p) (ml) 

24546/33 Lusk Government Farm, grazing and tillage, 1933 season (m) 

OPW5 – 24556/33 – 24708/33 

24556/33 G.A. Ruth, junior executive officer (s) 

24614/33 establishment: lease issued (s) 

24683/33 Howth Harbour, property improvements, esplanade, pool (s) 

24690/33 improvements to Kevin St garda station (s) 

24708/33 circular respecting restriction on use of toilet soap (!) (vs) 

OPW5 – 24720/33 – 24818/33 

24736/33 Durrow graveyard, various issues (s) 

24748/33 Inland Revenue Offices, vol 1, new premises in Old Cavalry Barrack (m) 

OPW5 – 24828/33 – 24948/33 

24927/33 information furnished to Dail Committee on drainage (m) 

OPW5 – 24951/33 – 25104/33 

25019/33 payment for overtime, compensatory leave to clerk of works, carpentersin-charge 

(vs) 

25060/33 drainage, import duty on spare parts (ml) 

OPW5 – 25105/33 – 25142/33 


OPW5 – 25144/33 – 25249/33 

25178/33 OPW staff reorganization, 1933 (vs) 

25249/33 Dublin Castle, vacation by General Prisons Board, future use (m) 

480

OPW5 – 25252/33 – 25398/33 

25253/33 shorthand typist, Miss E.J. Mulhall (s) 

25265/33 question of increasing rents on state lettings of property (often to the poor) 

(s) 

25313/33 unauthorised excavation at Lanesboro, Longford (souterain) (vs) 

25341/33 Barrow Drainage, telephone for resident engineer (s) 

OPW5 – 25403/33 – 25509/33 

25403/33 GPO, Dublin, lino contract (wk) (s) 

25445/33 loan to ‘Association for the Housing of the Very Poor’, 1904-33 (ml) 

25493/33 proposed transfer of junior executive officers to Dept of Education (s) 

25496/33 Ballysimon garda station, Limerick, lease file (m) 

OPW5 – 25511/33 – 25593/33 

25511/33 Dooagh fish curing station, Achill, repairs etc (p) (m) 

25515/33 national monuments; issue of excavation licences (m) 

25870/33 Joseph Keeney, establishment, junior executive officer (s) 

25593/33 Land Commission, additional lavatory accommodation (ml) 

OPW5 – 25600/33 – 25750/33 

25677/33 finds of archaeological objects (vs) 

25683/33 Nunciature: alterations, furniture (ml) 

25701/33 GPO, Dublin, revolving door (vs) 

25729/33 Barrow Drainage, purchase of Millgrove Weir (m) 

OPW5 – 25754/33 – 25839/33 


OPW5 – 25857/33 – 25959/33 

25864/33 Four Courts, alterations suggested to Law Library (m) 

25870/33 Roscommon souterains (vs) 

25871/33 Garda Siochana, provision of ladders (ml) 

25907/33 Buncrana and Rathmullen Piers, employment (s) 

25916/33 Ardfert garda station, Kerry, temporary premises file (m) 

25926/33 war graves, Tipperary & Offaly (m) 

481

OPW5 – 25957/33 – 25997/33 

3 schools and 1 garda station 

OPW5 – 26009/33 – 26101/33 

26068/33 Barrow Drainage, flooding at Mountmellick and correspondence (m) 

26101/33 Thurles post office, vol 1 (ml) 

OPW5 – 26103/33 – 26183/33 

26110/33 Kilcooley garda station, Tipperary, rents and works (m) 

26183/33 Glantane garda station, Cork, building file (m0 

OPW5 – 26185/33 – 26249/33 

26210/33 Bridgetown Abbey, Cork, 1920s, meaning of repairs to monument (s) 

OPW5 – 26253/33 – 26373/33 

26266/33 drainage excavation machinery, Prestman ‘level-cut’ (ads, photos) (s) 

25346/33 Dublin Castle, The Pound, use by DMP, Ball Alley and garden (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 26374/33 – 26512/33 

26491/33 Currency Commission, fire escape arrangements (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 26544/33 – 26597/33 

26544/33 National Library, additional shelving (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 26603/33 – 26694/33 

26015/33 civil service representative council meetings, 1930-31 (ml) 

482

OPW5 – 26698/33 – 26779/33 

26742/33 Dept of External Affairs, installation of dictogram (vs) 

26758/33 Lands and Fisheries, knitting centre, Keel, Achill, works (p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 26781/33 – 26887/33 

26814/33 Oireachtas restaurant, cold storage accommodation (s) 

26887/33 Dublin Castle, Revenue Commissioners, additional accommodation, 

Special Commissioners Branch (ms) 

OPW5 – 26889/33 – 26932/33 

26898/33 Kiltormer garda station, Galway, purchase file (m) 

OPW5 - 26933/33 – 26989/33 


OPW5 – 5/34 – 245/34 

5/34 Hill of Tara, acquisition of lands, proposed excavations (s) 

48/34 Office of Parliamentary Secretary, secretaries, Miss K. Wailes, A.F. 

Callan, 1927-37 (s0 

153/34 Barrow Drainage: minor tributaries and drains (general correspondence) 

(bits) (m) 

164/34 Celbridge garda station, Kildare, vol II (ms) 

241/34 Local Loans, unpunctuality of local bodies (vs) 

245/34 establishment: staffing of Press Bureau (Office of the President) (vs) 

OPW5 – 27000/34 – 27097/34 

27000/34 Phoenix Park national school, value of emoluments to teachers (s) 

27073/34 OPW staff, excellent lists of industrial and other staff (s) 

27094/34 F Chadwick, HEO (s) 

OPW5 – 251/34 – 319/34 

(no files selected) 

483

OPW5 – 339/34 – 577/34 

376/34 Grangegorman military cemetery, Dublin (s) 

473/34 preparatory colleges, adaptation of Hibernian (former) Military Military 

School (m) 

482/34 Barrow Drainage, Ballykelly maltings (water supply) (ms) 

OPW5 – 604/34 – 684/34 


OPW5 – 685/34 – 751/34 

709/34 turnstiles at state apartments, Dublin Castle, admission of visitors (p) (s) 

713/34 Imperial Agency Services: Leopardstown Pk Hospital, repair & renewal of 

railings (ms) 

721/34 articles and lectures by National Monuments Inspectors, March 1934 (s) 

OPW5 – 803/34 – 921/34 

873/34 National Monuments: correspondence with Purchase Branch, Irish Land 

Commission (mostly vesting proposals) (vg) (m) 

921/34 Garda Siochana Depot: repairs to chairs, pigeon-hole fittings (s) 

OPW5 – 931/34 – 1027/34 

931/34 Newport garda station, Tipperary, works (p) (ml) 

961/34 Donegal Abbey, 1897-1936 (good deal between 1929-35) (m) 

OPW5 – 1028/34 – 1068/34 

1067/34 Phoenix Park, Vice-Regal Lodge etc, exterior lighting, gas lamps (ms) 

1068/34 Central Heating Station, installation of four super-heaters (exct) (p) (l) 

OPW5 – 1071/34 – 1128/34 

1081/34 Stephen’s Green, boundary chairs (p) (ms) 

1085/34 Lanesborough stores (Shannon Navigation) for Grand Canal Company, 

1913-25 (ms) 

484

OPW5 – 1136/34 – 1242/34 


1247/34 – 1334/34 

1247/34 proposed Town Planning Bill, OPW comments (l) 

1272/34 Maples Hotel site, 23-28 Kildare St, proposals for utilization (Art Gallery, 

ESB offices) (m) 

OPW5 – 1360/34 – 1573/34 

1401/34 Four Courts, electric cable to be built by Corporation and general 

questions of preferential rates for electricity (ms) 

1561/34 Dun Laoighaire post office, fittings (m) 

1563/34 Post & Telegraph Central Sorting Office, vol 2, Sandwith St (m) 

1569/34 Hibernian Military School, cemetery & memorials (ms) 

OPW5 – 1662/344 – 1757/34 

1670/34 garda estimates, 1934-35 (s) 

1677/34 Mooncoin garda station, Kilkenny, purchase site (m) 

1686/34 National Museum extension, correspondence (p)(m) 

OPW5 – 1799/34 – 1957/34 

1921/34 Castlebellingham garda station, Louth (ms) 

OPW5 – 2026/344 – 2196/34 

2175/34 F.J. Reilly, clerical officer, transfer of loan to Quit Rent Office (s) 

2196/34 Castlecomer coal, tests and reports on quality of coal etc, 1928-35 (m) 

OPW5 – 2200/34 – 2373/34 

2345/34 war graves contract no.19, Donegal (m) 

485

OPW5 – 2375/34 – 2640/34 

2459/34 amendments suggested to National Monuments Act by advisory council 

(ms) 

OPW5 – 2724/34 – 2906/34 

2786/34 Donadea garda station, Kildare, rent and repairs (m) 

2192/34 Unemployment Insurance Act, 1933 (ms) 

OPW5 – 2915/34 – 2942/34 


OPW5 – 3043/34 – 3192/34 

3043/34 State Laboratory (College of Science), works (m) 

3103/34 Mountmellick stores, Barrow Drainage, rental (s) 

3187/34 F.W. Taylor, superintending clerk, decease (vs) 

OPW5 – 3208/34 – 3438/34 

3375/34 Lusk Farm, duties of steward, establishment (vs) 

3390/34 Crusheen garda station, Cork, restoration (ml) 

3417/34 Arklow post office (m) 

OPW5 – 3526/34 – 3677/34 

3563/34 Mountcharles garda station, Donegal, vol 2 

3578/34 GPO, Dublin, internal decoration, 1933-34 (wk) (s) 

3677/34 architects’ and engineers’ plans, filing and indexing (s) 

OPW5 3691/34 – 3888/34 

3691/34 Ballyvaughan garda station, Clare, minor works (ms) 

3702/34 Phoenix Park, water supply, provision of meters (s) 

3881/34 national monuments, notice plates 

3888/34 James Brennan, clerical assistant to carpenter-in-charge (death) (vs) 

486

OPW5 – 3890/34 – 4084/34 


OPW5 – 4092/34 – 4209/34 


OPW5 – 4210/34 – 4356/34 

4210/34 Galway Training College, foundation and steelwork contracts (m) 

4247/34 general correspondence on school accommodation in Dublin City (m) 

4261/34 grazing lettings in Bourn Vincent Memorial Park, general rules for state 

administration (ms) 

OPW5 – 4358/34 – 4445/34 

4373/34 Government Buildings, South Block, accumulation of rubbish in basement 

(s) 

4396/34 Kilmeedy garda station, Limerick, building file (p) (ms) 

4403/34 Roundwood garda station, Wicklow, vol III (m) 

4445/34 Haulbowline, arrangements consequent on lease of dockyard, water 

supply, navigation light (m) 

OPW5 – 4447/34 – 4504/34 

4480/34 establishment: Public Services (Temporary Economy) Act, 1933 (ms) 

4499/34 Labourer’s Acts: loan procedures etc (s) 

OPW5 – 4505/34 – 4579/34 

4515/34 Custom House, complaint respecting fumes from chimney (destruction of 

tobacco stalks) (ms) 

4584/34 Haulbowline estimates, notes, 1934-35 (ms) 

4585/34 OPW works, estimates, 1934-35 (m) 

OPW5 – 4613/34 – 4712/34 

4651/34 reception in state apartments, 17 th March 1933, works (housed law courts 

previously) (ms) 

487

4711/34 question of semi-official correspondence (ms) 

4712/34 arterial drainage, scheme for relief works, 1933-34 (s) 

OPW5 – 4731/34 – 4987/34 

4845/34 file on OPW estimates, 1934-35 (works, buildings) (m) 

4940/34 Barrow Drainage, labour troubles at Edenderry (vs) 

4943/34 committee on accommodation for government departments, Sir Philip 

Hanson a committee member (s) 

OPW5 – 5004/34 – 5062/34 

5019/34 GPO, Dublin, savings bank, special ‘card design’, 1930-35 (picture ad) 

(m) 

5032/34 Aclare garda station, Sligo (s) 

5049/34 OPW inspector of accommodation/valuer (for government property 

arrangements) (m) 

OPW5 – 5084/34 – 5206/34 

5166/34 assistant architect’s districts, general file, 1921-25 (ml) 

OPW5 – 5245/34 – 5326/34 

5283/34 Droichead Nua military barracks, demolition of dangerous buildings, 

works (m) 

5304/34 lighting of Customs and Frontier Stations (m) 

5325/34 Saorstat Legation, Berlin, furniture (ml) 

OPW5 – 5327/34 – 5407/34 


OPW5 – 5447/34 – 5562/34 

5466/344 three Tipperary castles proposed for vesting (s) 

5498/34 Kilmichael coast life saving station (m) 

5514/34 establishment: C.W. Pemberton and J.A. Geoghegan, architects (m) 

488

OPW5 – 5583/34 – 5699/34 

5586/34 Gorteen garda station, Galway (ms) 

5593/34 Pembroke House, Ministry of Pensions, artificial limemaker’s huts (m) 

5677/34 Collins Barracks, Cork, single officers quarters, file no III (ms) 

OPW5 – 5700/34 – 5846/34 

5796/34 Dept of External Affairs, permanent delegate to Geneva, 41 Quai Wilson, 

furniture (m) 

5840/34 Kilmacrennan garda station, Donegal (wks) (m) 

5843/34 Barrow Drainage, shift work (s) 

OPW5 – 5848/34 – 5859/34 

5848/34 sale of scrap-metal from Four Courts and Custom House (l) 

5858/34 Athlone Broadcasting Station, bench on castors (vs) 

5859/34 Valentia Wireless Station, repair file (including garda station) (Imperial 

Agency Services) (p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 5875/34 – 5974/34 

5915/34 Baldonnel aerodrome, re-roofing hangers, no 1 file (ms) 

5942/34 Muckross Abbey graveyard, Bourn Vincent Memorial Park (p) (vs) 

5948/34 Barrow Drainage, Edenderry employment complaints (vs) 

OPW5 – 5989/34 – 6148/34 

5989/34 Simon Moynihan, junior executive officer (s) 

5990/34 R Mulcahy, junior executive officer (demoted to clerical officer) (m) 

6075/34 Imperial Agency Services, Malin Head Wireless Station, alterations (s) 

6081/34 Knock of Howth, destruction (monument) (s) 

OPW5 – 6162/34 – 6283/34 

6168/34 questionnaire on public works policy and expenditure in Irish Free State 

(s) 

6217/34 orders for works/supplies, procedures (s) 

6235/34 foreman fitter for Dun Laoighaire harbour, overhaul of Wigham Lights, 

Joseph Fitzgerald and James Kavanagh (s) 

6259/34 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, fuel and light supplies etc (m) 

489

OPW5 – 6298/34 – 6364/34 

6347/34 Ballinure garda station, Tipperary, main file (ml) 

6351/34 Wexford garda station, Wexford, works (m) 

OPW5 – 6365/34 – 6466/34 

6375/34 St Margaret’s Dublin, Abbey in burial ground (vs) 

6432/34 Mountbellew garda station, Galway (m) 

6466/34 Barrow Drainage, claim by J.E. Joly re eel fisheries (s) 

OPW5 – 6477/34 – 6543/34 

6496/34 Carrigallen garda station, Leitrim, temporary premises, repairs etc (m) 

OPW5 – 6546/34 – 6735/34 

6579/34 increment papers, 1933-36 (m) 

6598/34 establishment: promotion procedures, health fitness (vs) 

OPW5 – 6746/34 – 6816/34 

6812/34 Redcross garda station, Wicklow, works (m) 

6816/34 Muinebeag garda station, Carlow, reconstruction file (p) (ms) 

OPW5 – 6834/34 – 6993/34 

6854/34 Miss M.I. de Roiste, typist (vs) 

6909/34 cameras, OPW offices in Portlaoise, examples of prints, 1 man with car, 

other works (exct) (12 negatives, including castle) (s) 

OPW5 – 7003/34 – 7162/34 

7143/34 Miss K.O. Barrett, typist, resignations etc (vs) 

OPW5 – 7175/34 – 7310/34 

490

7228/34 Granard garda station, Longford, vol 2, reconstruction file (p) (ms) 

7234/34 Kilnatura Castle, Cork, vesting orders etc (vs) 

OPW5 – 7311/34 – 7705/34 

7314/34 Buildings Division II, fuel and light section, staffing (vs) 

7332/34 Athy workshops, Barrow Drainage, application from Athy Industrial 

Committee (s) 

7348/34 Saorstat Legation, Barrow, inventory file residence (s) 

7508/34 Gallaunmore standing stone, Kerry (vs) 

OPW5 – 7722/34 – 7869/34 

7794/34 Lough Corrib, vehicular ferry service (ms) 

7798/34 Dept of Defence GHQ, heating system (p) (ml) 

OPW5 – 7870/34 – 8033/34 

7870/34 OPW, demolition of old building at rere of 51 St Stephen’s Green, relief 

works, March-April 1934 (vs) 

7894/34 Lissadell garda station, Sligo, lease file (m) 

7914/34 Phoenix Park, American Legation, grounds and gardens, plants etc (m) 

7916/34 Lagduff Lodge, Mayo, renewal of footbridge (s) 

8033/34 Killenagh garda station, Waterford, rebuilding file no 1 (qg) (p) (m) 

OPW5 – 8054/34 – 8279/34 

8135/34 Rathmullen garda station, Donegal, main file (ml) 

8138/34 Sligo garda station, no 1, file no 2 (ms) 

8202/34 George Wheeler, draughtsman, retirement, pension (vs) 

8213/34 public buildings generally, electric lighting, general correspondence (m) 

OPW5 – 8288/34 – 8363/34 

8307/34 Menlough garda station, Galway (s) 

8310/34 estabt: position of civil servants in relation to army reserve and volunteer 

reserve (m) 

8326/34 Shannon Navigation, Kilteery pier, 1887-1935 (m) 

8348/34 Louisburgh garda station, Mayo, temporary premises ctd (s) 

8363/34 GPO, Dublin, reconstruction of Block D, steelwork (correspondence) (ok) 

(m) 

491

OPW5 – 8377/34 – 8517/34 

8394/34 cement produced in Irish Free State, imports, standard tests (ms) 

8402/34 retirements etc under article 10, OPW (s) 

8410/34 OPW furniture branch, list works, designs, drawings, works, staffing (vg) 

(m) 

8433/34 Haulbowline: friction between Haulbowline Industries Ltd and Cork 

Harbour Commissioners, request by British military to dredge channel by 

Spike Island (ms) 

OPW5 – 8526/34 – 8667/34 

8530/34 Monasterboice Church, works (ms) 

8531/34 Roscrea Castle, Tipperary, inspections etc (ms) 

8538/344 minor relief schemes, overtime, gratuities (ms) 

8578/344 staffing of drainage section (vs) 

8581/34 Kerry war graves, contract for headstones (s) 

8588/34 American Legation, inventories and general interest (g) (m) 

8619/34 Caherally Castle, Limerick (3 nice photos) (vs) 

8667/34 Bandon garda station, Cork, vol III (m) 

OPW5 – 8680/34 – 8769/34 

8680/34 gun salute to United States plenipotentiary from Royal Hospital 

Kilmainham (vs) 

8737/34 Taghmon garda station, Wexford, lease file (m) 

OPW5 – 8770/34 – 8854/34 


OPW5 – 8873/34 – 8964/34 

8964/34 appointment of shorthand and copying typist, 1931-34 (m) 

OPW5 – 9015/34 – 9142/34 

9015/34 dredging crews, nightwatchmen etc, discharge of eight employees after 

sale of ‘Cara na gCuan’ (m) 

492

9032/34 Dundrum Asylum, enlargement of assistant medical officer’s quarters 

(ms) 

9024/34 Four Courts, bencher’s chambers, electric lights etc (m) 

9038/34 Kildysart garda station, Clare (ml) 

9112/34 National Monuments: ‘pamphlet for propaganda purposes’, booklet 

enclosed (ms) 

9115/34 Lawrencetown garda station, Galway, purchase file (m) 

OPW5 – 9172/34 – 9302/34 

9302/34 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, contents inventorised (records etc) and 

general correspondence, transfer c.1933 (m) 

OPW5 – 9303/34 – 9449/34 

9313/34 Dept of External Affairs, Saorstat representative’s residence, Geneva, 

furniture (s) 

9323/34 Revenue Commissioners, Dublin Castle, additional accommodation (ms) 

9325/34 Colaiste Moibhi, residential accommodation for two workmen (m) 

OPW5 – 9455/34 – 9501/34 

9495/34 Haulbowline, water supply (m) 

9498/34 Schull garda station, Cork, vol II (m) 

9501/34 Spiddal garda station, Galway, works, vol II (m) 

OPW5 – 9508/34 – 9581/34 

9508/34 application for more staff for minor relief schemes (vs) 

9537/34 OPW HQ, works file rearrangements (p) (s) 

9581/34 Ship St Buildings, Industry and Commerce, hot water heating (ml) 

OPW5 – 9587/34 – 9652/34 

9591/34 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, garda HQ, outbreak of fire (ms) 

9594/34 Rosses Point garda station, Sligo (coastguard station) (m) 

9623/34 Courts of Justice, electric boiling rings (ms) 

9636/34 arterial drainage scheme for relief works (m) 

493

OPW5 – 9677/34 – 9778/34 

9693/34 Phoenix Park, Vice-Regal Lodge, grounds, misc (ms) 

9697/34 100 th Annual Report, printer’s draft (ms) 

9711/34 Baldonnel Aerodrome, contract works, hangers etc (m) 

9775/34 Land Bill, comments (m) 

OPW5 – 9797/34 – 9926/34 

9889/34 Barrow Drainage, removal of obstructions, Carlow Weir/Shackleton’s 

Mill (m) 

9908/344 Barrow Drainage, Leasing of Monasterevan store from Grand Canal 

Company (s) 

OPW5 – 9928/34 – 9973/34 

9930/34 Oughterard garda station, Galway, vol 2 (m) 

9954/34 Phoenix Park, improvement to drainage (floods etc) (ms) 

OPW5 – 9987/34 – 10098/34 

10053/34 Phoenix Park, lodges, valuations (m) 

10067/34 National Gallery, boiler attendant (s) 

10087/34 Phoenix Park pumping station, new gear wheels for pumps (s) 

OPW5 – 10104/34 – 10184/34 

10104/34 Fore Abbey (s) 

10139/34 Shannon Electricity Scheme, general correspondence (ms) 

10167/34 Local Loans, severe problems with repayments from Bandon Town 

Commissioners, 1922-37 (m) 

OPW5 – 10186/34 – 10248/34 

10193/34 John Curran’s reports on unvested monuments, Kerry (s) 

10194/34 Casino, Marino, vesting file (p) (m) 

10241/34 establishment: arterial drainage assistant, 1930-36 (exct on staffing) (m) 

10244/34 works at Munster Institute (m) 

10248/34 Vice-Regal Lodge, telephone facilities for BOW overseer (ms) 

494

OPW5 – 10250/34 – 10543/34 

10253/34 turf supplied for government departments, general correspondence, 1933- 

34 (g) (m) 

10261/34 Corofin garda station, Galway, vol 2, building file (p) (m) 

10524/34 employment of valuers on arterial drainage, works (m) 

OPW5 – 10550/34 – 10667/34 

10611/34 Muckross Abbey, Kerry (s) 

10618/34 Killakee House, Rathfarnham garda station (m) 

10623/34 Land Commission, examiners of title, additional accommodation (ml) 

OPW5 – 10668/34 – 10699/34 

10684/34 Burnfoot garda station, Donegal (adaptation of rectory) (m) 

10694/34 National Museum, Augusta Bender memorial room of Far Eastern Art 

(ms) 

10699/34 Annagry carpet factory, Donegal, works (ms) 

OPW5 – 10711/34 – 10841/34 

10734/34 Dun Laoighaire, Dunmore East, Shannon Navigation, rainfall statistics, 

from 1932 (ms) 

OPW5 – 10855/34 – 10999/344 

10881/34 use made of Muckross Estate (vs) 

OPW5 – 11039/34 – 11095/34 

11039/34 Barrow Drainage, temporary female clerk in Athy office (vs) 

11093/34 Knocklong garda station, Limerick, leasehold (m) 

OPW5 – 11100/34 – 11216/34 

11117/34 Court Houses Provision and Maintenance Bill, reports, including Four 

Courts (ms) 

11146/34 National schools, architect’s fees (s) 

11195/34 Bourn Vincent Memorial Park, walls and trees, boundary wall (s) 

495

OPW5 – 11217/34 – 11270/34 

11226/34 establishment: C.H. Olley and C.S. McNeill, drainage works (m) 

11232/34 Damage to Property (Compensation) Act 1933 (amendment), staff file 

(exct) (ms) 

OPW5 – 11300/34 – 11342/34 

11320/34 annual report, draft material (ms) 

OPW5 – 11343/34 – 11438/34 

11367/34 Stephen’s Green, light petrol motor roller, ordered (ms) 

OPW5 – 11456/34 – 11592/34 

11528/34 Arklow garda station, Wicklow (s) 

11533/344 Science and Art buildings, presses for storing maps, National Museum (s) 

OPW5 – 11601/34 – 11745/34 

11677/34 Stephen’s Green, telephone kiosk in park, plans etc (p) (m) 

11745/34 Colaiste Caoimhin, grazing, minor works (m) 

OPW5 – 11782/34 – 11864/34 

11853/34 arterial drainage (s) 

OPW5 – 11886/34 – 11999/34 

11886/34 Ballacalla garda station, Laois, works and repairs (ml) 

11933/34 Barrow Drainage, disposal of surplus premises, easements (s) 

11999/34 new work programme for 1934-35 (s) 

OPW5 – 12001/34 – 12123/34 

12005/34 temporary arrangement for working of engineer’s branch (s) 

496

12057/34 Athlone garda station (m) 

12060/34 annuities under 1870 Land Act Purchase Scheme, reductions etc (vs) 

12080/34 cameras, photography encouraged 1907-35, examples (exct) (ms) 

OPW5 – 12131/34 – 12333/34 

12138/34 Baldonnel aerodrome, re-roofing hangers, correspondence (m) 

12274/34 National Monuments, offered by Land Commissioners, 

correspondence/Bills (ms) 

OPW5 – 12336/34 – 12395/34 

12348/34 Roscommon town garda station, electric lighting (m) 

OPW5 – 12418/34 – 12507/34 

12441/34 Arterial Drainage Act, 1925, progress of schemes (mostly stats) (m) 

12445/34 Lusk garda station, Dublin, vol 2, site file and utilization of Lusk Farm 

(m) 

12507/34 Buncrana harbour works, appointment of residential engineer, clerk of 

works (m) 

OPW5 – 12251/34 – 12571/34 

12548/34 Cahirciveen garda station, Kerry, temporary premises (s) 

12571/34 Revenue Commissioners, 14/15 Upper O’Connell St, party wall, with 

Savoy Cinema (l) 

OPW5 – 12574/34 – 12692/34 

12661/34 national schools, general information on costs and procedures (vs) 

12692/34 state symbols for post offices (m) 

OPW5 – 12700/344 – 12793/34 

12704/34 national schools generally, sanitary arrangements (with amusing letter of 

advice on systems in use in Northern Ireland) (ms) 

12785/34 Science and Art museum, installation of basement hoist (m) 

12786/34 Fishery Piers and Harbours, estimates/list (s) 

497

OPW5 – 12802/34 – 12888/34 

12815/34 gardens attached to American Legation, Phoenix Park (ms) 

12818/34 Blacklion frontier post hut, hut and electricity (p) (s) 

OPW5 – 12894/34 – 13020/34 

12955/34 Compensation Act 1933, use of Battersbys, valuers (vs) 

12951/34 appointment of Rahan Church, Offaly (vs) 

13006/34 Lough Cootes Castle, Gort (vs) 

13011/34 Tinahely garda station, Wicklow (m) 

13020/34 OPW HQ 50-51 St Stephen’s Green, changes in accommodation, memos 

and plans (exct) (ml) 

OPW5 – 13021/34 – 13115/34 

13042/34 Kilmallock Abbey, Limerick, 1904-35 (ms) 

13044/34 dredger, ‘Sisyphus’, used to dump unserviceable Garda Siochana arms at 

sea outside Dun Laoighaire (s) 

13102/344 Marine Works, Donegal, report of commission (including representative 

of OPW) (m) 

OPW5 – 13116/34 – 13211/34 


OPW5 – 13223/344 – 13268/34 

13251/34 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Deputy-Master’s Quarters, occupied by Col 

Braseup to 2 nd Jan 1934 (s) 

13256/34 Ballyhaunis garda station, Mayo, vol 2, lease etc (m) 

OPW5 – 13282/34 – 13349/34 

13349/34 Dept of Defence GHQ, protection to buildings (s) 

OPW5 – 13358/34 – 13417/34 

13398/34 Ferns garda station, Wexford, works (m) 

498

13404/34 promotion and certification of architects etc (bits) (m) 

13405/34 return of officers on leave (ms) 

13414/34 Castlebar military barracks, reconstruction, winding up (ms) 

OPW5 – 13439/34 – 13481/34 

13439/34 Rock of Cashel, Tipperary, burials etc, 1930-35 (m) 

13440/34 Gallarus beehive hut, Kerry (s) 

OPW5 – 13507/34 – 13592/34 

13514/34 Monivea garda station, adaptation file (m) 

13584/34 Nobber garda station, Meath (s) 

OPW5 – 13599/34 – 13669/34 

13599/34 Creevelea Abbey, Roscommon, provision of pamphlet, correspondence (s) 

13615/34 Barrow Drainage, hire and disposal of plant, correspondence (g) (m) 

13631/34 Oldcastle garda station, Meath, temporary premises file (ml) 

OPW5 – 13672/34 – 13725/34 

13717/34 Custom House, Dublin, office accommodation, arrangements, memos, 


15418/34 Ballinlough garda station, Roscommon, vol II (s) 

OPW5 – 13734/34 – 13835/34 

13803/34 Paris Legation, supplies etc, fuel (ms) 

OPW5 – 13839/34 – 13988/34 

13863/34 Ballinasloe garda station, Galway, workhouse site (m) 

13871/34 Blanchardstown garda station, purchase file (m) 

13953/344 Saorstat Legation, Holy See, caretaking (s) 

13962/34 restoring connections between Natural History and Science and Art 

Museum (p) (s) 

499

OPW5 – 14010/34 – 14190/34 

14010/34 Carrick-on-Suir, quarry wall, repairs (m) 

OPW5 – 14191/34 – 14307/34 

14231/344 Irish National War Memorial, granite steps (invoices and specs) (wk) (ms) 

14280/34 Raphoe garda station, Donegal, adaptations file, vol II (ms) 

14307/34 GPO shops, Henry St Arcade (magnificent photos/negatives of shops, 

August 1934) (ms) 

OPW5 – 14312/34 – 14362/34 

14362/34 clerk of works, B.J. Stack, dismissal (for drink, unreliability) (m) 

OPW5 – 14487/34 – 14655/34 

14563/34 Barrow Drainage, discussion re minor streams and tributaries (m) 

14577/34 Phoenix Park, gardens of Nunciature (s) 

OPW5 – 14404/34 – 14480/34 

14474/34 Royal Hospital Kilmainham, pumping station at Islandbridge (ms) 

14480/34 tar spraying of Upper Yard and Parade Ground, Dublin Castle (s) 

OPW5 – 14656/34 – 14675/34 

14656/34 Haulbowline advisory committee report (m) 

14657/34 Haulbowline, repairs to various vessels (s) 

14659/34 report on Haulbowline by William Mares, Feb 1928 (ms) 

14662/34 shipbuilding at Haulbowline (s) 

14663/34 Haulbowline, applications for position of resident engineer (m) 

OPW5 – 14705/34 – 14756/34 

14727/34 report on inspections of Scottish schools for design ideas (p) (ms) 

14729/34 Leac-an-Scoil dolmen, Kilkenny (vs) 

14379/34 Kingstown Harbour, storm warning signal station (anemometer), 1861-, 

1911-35 (p) (ms) 

14753/34 Haulbowline, misc correspondence, espec re foundations, 1922- (ms) 

500

OPW5 – 14761/34 – 14847/34 

14813/344 Coolbane Castle, Co Tipperary, vesting (sketch) (vs) 

OPW5 – 14851/34 – 14991/34 

14893/34 Clonegal garda station, Carlow, leasehold (ms) 

14954/34 Shannon Fisheries Bill, 1934, commentary (s) 

14957/34 Vice-Regal Lodge, proposed use as military staff college and reports (ms) 

OPW5 – 15008/34 – 15062/34 

15045/34 kitchen gardener’s cottage, Elizabeth Toole, late scourer, Vice-Regal 

gardens, gratuity (s) 

15048/34 National Museum buildings, fire precautions, reports etc (g) (m) 

15053/34 Dept of Agriculture and Fisheries, Ardara and Kilcar Marts, Donegal, 

repairs etc (p) (ml) 

15062/34 Barrow Drainage, accident to William Browne (fell off plank) (exct) (ms) 

OPW5 – 15069/34 – 15116/34 

15111/34 Munster Institute, Cork, new fowl pens, work for egg laying competition, 

extension of fowl hamper shed (OPW chides Dept Agriculture) (p) (m) 

15116/34 dredger, sale of ‘Cara na gCuan’, 1932 (m) 

Board of Works Railway Files: OPW5RW 

OPW5RW - 25952/53 – 5084/60 

25952/53 Kingstown Railway Company, lease of land for line (vs) 

20118/56 Tralee-Killarney Railway Co (vs) 

20409/56 note on Ballymena-Ballymoney-Portrush Railway (vs) 

21016/56 arbitration, Ulster Railway (s) 

501

2676/57 Londonderry-Enniskillen Railway Company award (vs) 

2928/57 Midland Great Western Railway, extension to Tullamore (p) (s) 

3195/57 North-Western (Ireland) Railway Bill, (s) 

3558/57 Portadown-Dungannon Railway Act (s) 

3748/57 Dundalk-Enniskillen Railway Act (s) 

4061/57 Newry-Enniskillen Railway Bill (s) 

3036/58 Leitrim Railway and Lough Allen Pier Bill (s) 

3465/58 Londonderry-Enniskillen Railway Bill (s) 

3466/58 Dundalk-Enniskillen award (s) 

3874/58 Midland Great Western Railway, minor correspondence, mill at 

Lanesborough (vs) 

4121/58 Waterford-Kilkenny Railway Bill (s) 

4145/58 Midland Great Western Railway, permission to use Cloonahanogue Canal 

(s) 

4422/58 Londonderry-Enniskillen Railway award (s) 

19563/58 Great Southern & Western Railway extension, land (p) (s) 

12459/58 Ulster Railway Act (s) 

19749/59 new line of railway at Kingtstown jetty (vs) 

15262/59 note on Cork-Kinsale Junction Railway (vs) 

16214/59 Limerick-Ennis-Killaloe Junction Railway (Shannon Commissioners’ 

lands) (s) 

18550/59 Limerick-Castleconnell Railway Extension (Killaloe extension), award 

(m) 

17566/59 Ballymena-Ballymoney etc line (award) (ms) 

18923/59 Great Midland & Western Railway arbitration award (ms) 

20112/59 Dublin-Wicklow, arrangements for packet trains (vs) 

20049/59 Cork-Kinsale Railway Junction Co (ms) 

3778/60 arbitration expenses (John Rynd), Sligo extension Railway, list (vg) (vs) 

5084/60 Midland Great Western Railway, arbitration award (ms) 

OPW5RW – 8093/60 – 3939/65 

8093/60 Bagenalstown-Wexford arbitration award (m) 

13112/60 Dublin-Wicklow-Wexford Railway Company arbitration award (m) 

9392/61 Ulster Railway Company, enlargement of stations (p) (forms (ms) 

11092/62 Waterford-Limerick Railway, award, foreshore lands (ms) 

11920/62 Rathkeale-Newcastle Railway Award (m) 

4401/63 Ulster Railway Act, arbitration award (ms) 

502

4606/63 Wexford-Limerick Railway- Limerick railway (s) 

4954/63 Great Midland Western Railway, draft award, Castlebar & Westport (ms) 

6343/63 Belfast-Hollywood-Bangor Railway, award note (vs) 

8740/63 Londonderry-Lough Swilly Railway, Lough Swilly extension, note (1p) 

8913/63 Waterford-Limerick Railway Company (tramway), draft award (ms) 

10657/63 Parsonstown and Portumna Bridge Railway Company, award (m) 

11051/63 Parsonstown and Portumna Bridge Railway Company, lands of Walshpark 

(s) 

11318/63 Kilkenny Junction Railway award (m) 

2042/64 Great Southern Western Railway – award (vs) 

4388/64 Parsonstown and Portumna Bridge Railway Company (bill to extend 

railway across Shannon) (Shannon Navigation lands) (m) 

18143/64 Dublin South Suburban Railway, notice to owners and occupiers (s) 

1387/65 Dublin South Suburban Railway, and Trader’s Wharf, Kingstown (harbour 

changes) (s) 

3939/65 Dublin South Suburban Railway, and plans marked on chart of Kingstown 

Harbour (vs) 

OPW5RW – 808/66 – 37366/82 

808/66 Belfast Central Railway, items (vs) 

2511/66 Kilrush-Kilkee Railway (note) (vs) 

5512/72 employment 

14067/77 Dublin-Kingstown Railway, misc correspondence 1848-77 (mostly re 

Kingstown Harbour) (m) 

1158/78 Navan-Kingscourt Railway Act (award) (m) 

5825/81 Clonakilty extension railway loan (m) 

16033/81 proposed Derry-Moville Railway Act, coastguard station lands and award 

(m) 

OPW5RW – 28812/84 – 15214/86 

28812/84 Clare-Banagher Railway Company, loan £20,000, correspondence etc (vl) 

2926/86 proposed Dromod-Strokestown Railway (lovely plans, fragile tracings, 

water-proof sheets), registered loan application (m) 

15214/86 Tuam-Dunmore Railway proposal, OPW enquiry (newspaper report) (g) 

(p) (m) 

503

OPW5 – 3097/89 – 2896/90 

3097/89 Letterkenny railway, working agreements (l) 

1261/90 West Donegal Railway, progress of loans, 1880-90 (l) 

2628/90 Connemara coast light railway, good OPW engineering enquiry etc (ms) 

2896/90 Donegal Central-Stranorlar-Glenties-Gweedore Light Railway, good 

reports etc (ms) 

OPW5 – 5516/87 – 12050/88 

5516/87 Treasury Act 1883, general correspondence and official notices (bits) (l) 

8005/87 Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford Railway, widening line at Kingstown, dispute 

with OPW (p) (l) 

12050/88 Cavan, Leitrim, Roscommon Railway, loan correspondence (m) 

OPW5 – 3141/90 – 14613/90 

3141/90 Galway-Oughterard-Clifden Light Railway, ground rents (p) (ms) 

3212/90 Tuam-Claremorris Light Railway, reports and public inquiry (p) (exct) 

(ms) 

3288/90 Kenmare Light Railway, reports and inquiry (g) (p) (ms) 

8444/90 Cashel & Goolds Cross Tramway and Light Railway, reports etc (p) (ms) 

13673/90 Donegal Light Railways (North), Milford-Letterkenny etc, lots reports and 

inquiries (m) 

14613/90 Southern Railway (now ‘represented by the OPW’), Thurles station, 

construction (ml) 

OPW5RW – 15093/90 – 1060/96 

15093/90 Donegal-Killybegs Light Railway, deviations suggested at Inver, lot 

reports and enquiries on changes in the route (l) 

15743/90 Westport-Mallaranny-Belmullet Light Railway, reports, plans, inquiry etc 

(vg) (ml) 

15970/90 Transfer of Railways (Ireland) Act, 1890 (comments by OPW) (s) 

16904/94 Collooney-Claremorris and Waterford-Limerick Railways correspondence 

(m) 

16904/94 Donegal-Killybegs Railway, misc correspondence (incl strike on line) (m) 

?/1896 general file on light railways (p) (s) 

2/96 Clare Light Railway System – general (vs) 

1060/96 Cavan, Leitrim, Roscommon Light Railway, Arigna extension (p) (ms) 

504

OPW5RW – 5083/96 – 3219/97 

* 

76/97 Dublin-Wicklow- Wexford Railway, Shillelagh extension railway – misc 

(ms) 

999/97 Burtonport railway, engineer’s correspondence re plans etc (ms) 

1008/97 South Mayo railways, report on condition by County Surveyor (s) 

1014/97 Baltimore extension railway, facility for fisheries (m) 

2969/97 Bray-Glendalough Light Railway, report and inquiry (ms) 

3219/97 Ballina-Belmullet railway promotion (s) 

5083/96 Dublin United Tramways extension order 1885, 1892, 1895, 1896, 

inquiries etc (ml) 

OPW5RW – 3436/97 – 9450/99 

3436/97 Waterford-Dungarvan-Lismore Railway, 1895-97, BOW receivership, 

memos and misc (lots bits) (l) 

4469/97 Tarbert-Kilrush steamer service and Waterford Steamship Company, 

1897-98 (l) 

1925/98 Sutton-Howth Electric Tram – Act (ms) 

9450/99 Carrowmore lake, arterial drainage trustees (near Louisburgh) (s) 

OPW5RW – 2670/1900 – 15469/01 

2670/80 Southern Railway, appointment of three directors (s) 

5255/01 Irish Railways, question of administration and state purchase etc 

(newspaper cuttings) (ms) 

13584/01 proposed railway, Newport-Belmullet, misc correspondence (ms) 

13077/01 Castletown-Berehaven and Kenmare Light Railways, reports and inquiries 

(m) 

13660/01 Letterkenny railway and problems and discussions (ml) 

15469/01 Mitchelstown-Fermoy Railway, investigation of accounts, reports etc (ml) 

OPW5RW – 17462/01 – 596/02 

17492/01 Limerick electric tramway, reports etc (ml) 

60/02 Stranorlar-Glenties Railway, action file II (m) 

225/02 Killaloe water supply (s) 

595/02 Dublin, Scalp, Enniskerry, Tramways, reports, memos, official (l) 

268/02 Carndonagh-Burtonport Railway, land plans (s) 

596/02 Donegal Railways, inspection of rails and sleepers (s) 

505

OPW5RW - 6139/02 – 9388/03 

6139/02 Cavan, Leitrim Light Railway (off) (m) 

15330/02 Tramways (Ireland) Act Amendment Bill, 1900, comments (lots) (m) 

17317/02 GRR note (vs) 

575/03 Railways (Ireland) Act 1896, projects proposed (coach, steamers) (g) (s) 

5923/03 Rosslare-Fishguard Railway Bill, comments (l) 

9388/03 Tralee-Dingle Railway, file II (exct correspondence) (l) 

OPW5RW - 15583/03 – 8823/11 

15583/05 Letterkenny-Burtonport Railway (vs) 

4481/07 Tralee-Dingle Railway, deviations and abandonments (ok) (m) 

11108/08 Letterkenny-Burtonport Railway, accident at Owencarrow Viaduct, 22 nd 

Feb 1908, repairs etc (p, photo) (m) 

9964/10 Tralee-Dingle Railway, deviations and abandonments, smoothing journey 

(ms) 

8823/11 Tralee-Dingle Railway, rolling stock, file no 2 

OPW5RW – 9190/11 – 2009/15 

9190/11 Tralee-Dingle Railway, deviations, works file (vg) (m) 

294/13 Athenry-Tuam Light Railway and Robe drainage (qg) (m) 

1555/13 Athenry-Tuam Light Railway and Robe drainage (s) 

2039/14 Great Southern Railway notes (s) 

1946/15 Burtonport Railway, excessive speed at Owenacarrow etc, reports, 


2009/15 Burtonport Railway, condition and working of locomotives, 


OPW5RW – 5223/15 – 1460/16 

5223/15 Burtonport extension railway, new works, Kilmacrenan and Meenbarid, 

signal cabins etc (p) (l) 

6148/15 Collooney-Swineford-Claremorris-Swineford Railway, investigation of 

accounts, 1909-15 (l) 

13090/15 Burtonport and Carndonagh Railway, timetables, correspondence (m) 

12877/15 Burtonport & Carndonagh Railway, increases in rates and fares, 


160/16 Southern Railways, accounts investigations (m) 

506

OPW5RW – 3205/16 – 3505/17 

3205/16 Letterkenny Railway, revaluations (m) 

3306/16 Burtonport Railway, through bookings, OPW correspondence (l) 

8264/16 Banagher water pipes (s) 

8303/16 Letterkenny Railway, relaying, general (ml) 

510/17 Letterkenny Railway, renewal of working agreements (exct 

correspondence) (m) 

2920/17 Burtonport Railway, parliamentary questions, 1917 (ms) 

3505/17 Letterkenny-Burtonport Railway, memo on difficulties (s) 

OPW5RW – 3580/17 – 112/18 

3580/17 Cork-Blackrock-Passage Railway, proposed postponement of repayments 

(ml) 

5144/17 Clara-Banagher Railway, mortgage (s) 

7033/17 Letterkenny Railway, general relaying, appointment of engineer, works (l) 

42/18 railways, government conveyance, notes (s) 

112/18 Dublin & South-East Railway Bill, 1918 (ms) 

OPW5RW – 826/18 – 5412/18 

826/18 Claremorris-Collooney drainage (m) 

1234/18 Cavan-Leitrim Railway, sale of stock, correspondence (l) 

1929/18 Burtonport Railway, complaints from public, correspondence (m) 

2436/18 grain store at Carndonagh station (s) 

2765/18 Burtonport-Carndonagh Railway, accident1917, 1918 (qg) (m) 

5412/18 Sligo-Belmullet steamer service, working arrangements (qg) (m) 

OPW5RW – 5764/18 – 10470/18 

5764/18 half-yearly reports from Irish railway companies (off) (m) 

9173/18 Dublin-South-Eastern Railway, proposed diversion of line between 

Greystones and Newcastle with issue of coastal protection (good memos) 

(ml) 

10234/18 fencing on Arigna railway (s) 

10402/18 Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway Bill, 1918, comments etc (l) 

10470/18 Cork-Macroom Railway (s) 

507

OPW5RW – 10596/18 – 1766/18 

10596/18 new bridge at Coleraine, arbitration (m) 

11172/18 Dublin-Kingstown Railway, Carlisle Pier, note (vs) 

11444/18 Dublin-South-Eastern Railway, diversion proposed, report of Carey on 

coast erosion (m) 

11537/18 Burtonport Railway, annual leave for OPW agent (ms) 

11680/18 Burtonport Railway, war bonus and other matters, general correspondence 

(l) 

11766/18 Burtonport Railway, receipts and expenses, newspaper cuttings (m) 

OPW5RW – 162/19 – 3308/19 

162/19 Southern Railway, telegraphic communications, payments and agreements 

etc (ml) 

606/19 Arigna Railway, use of motor car for OPW engineer (construction, 1918) 

(vs) 

655/19 Newry-Keady-Tynan Railway, analysis of memo (s) 

1205/19 Arigna works, strike (s) 

3118/19 Arigna works, conveyance of rails and fastenings (m) 

3140/19 Dublin North Wall military siding, deviations (ms) 

3308/19 Arigna works, misc correspondence (ms) 

OPW5RW – 5188/19 – 8027/19 

5188/19 Letterkenny, periodical inspections and reports (ml) 

5873/19 Letterkenny, complaints as to working (ml) 

5875/19 appointments and retirements on Letterkenny Railway (ms) 

5933/19 Burtonport, unauthorized use of engine and carriages by Lough Swilly 

Company (l) 

5934/19 Carndonagh Railway, complaints as to working (m) 

8627/19 Arigna railway, purchase of plant (s) 

OPW5RW – 9202/19 – 949/20 

9202/19 Carndonagh Railway, acquisition of land for stores (s) 

10555/19 Burtonport, time-table arrangements (ml) 

11892/19 Burtonport, appointment of OPW agent, 1903-19 (ml) 

13749/19 Burtonport, reports as to improvements (ms) 

13902/19 Lough Swilly, parliamentary expenses (vs) 

848/20 Arigna, orders for sleepers and fencing posts (m) 

949/20 Arigna, estimates and orders (s) 

508

OPW5RW – 2835/20 – 16430/20 

2835/20 Burtonport miscellaneous (s) 

3490/20 lands at Burtonport station (s) 

3623/20 receipts, Arigna extension (s) 

5992/20 proposed railways, Rosses Point etc (s) 

11430/20 Letterkenny, repair of bridges (p) (s) 

11639/20 technical information on Arigna railway (s) 

12884/20 Letterkenny Railway, re-laying, supplies of material, station works (ml) 

16430/20 Burtonport lands (s) 

OPW5RW – 664/21 – 6375/21 

664/21 cost of re-laying Letterkenny Railway, 1913-19 (g) (s) 

773/21 Arigna Railway, rails and wagons for line construction (m) 

3951/21 Letterkenny, meetings of arbitrators and audits (ml) 

6106/21 meetings to resolve problems between Burtonport Company and OPW (m) 

6375/21 Tralee-Dingle Railway, station improvements, works etc (p) (ml) 

OPW5RW – 11171/22 – 7604/21 

2171/22 Sligo-Belmullet steamship service: general correspondence (ml) 

2222/22 Sligo-Belmullet: proposed weekly service (g) (m) 

7257/22 Amiens St Sorting Office (next to railway station) (3 plans) (s) 

11171/21 Clogher Valley Railway, reports by County Surveyors, Fermanagh and 

Tyrone (m) 

1073/21 Great Southern & Western Railway, misc correspondence (m) 

7604/22 interest on railway expenditure, Irish railways (m) 

OPW5RW – 14062/22 – 21315/23 

14062/22 Letterkenny railway, appointment of arbitrator, O. Braddell (m) 

699/23 Railways (Ireland) Act 1896, charges file, discussion, discs of steamer 

service (ml) 

5928/23 Burtonport Railway, privy council management etc (ml) 

6093/23 River Swilly Bridge, strengthening, post re-laying, Letterkenny Railway 

(m) 

9150/23 * 

21315/23 Amiens St telegraph office (after damage in accident) (p) (ms) 

509

OPW5RW – 22829/23 – 10980/24 

22829/23 Wolfhill collieries, coal orders etc (ml) 

23796/23 Letterkenny re-laying, supply of ballast etc (ml) 

23799/23 Cork-Blackrock-Passage Railway, grouping scheme (s) 

23805/23 Stranorlar-Glenties telegraph (s) 

1985/24 Cork-Blackrock etc, proposed postponement of principal repayments (m) 

9964/24 new road built beside Arigna Railway (vs) 

9970/24 Southern Railway note (vs) 

10980/24 railways and military coal supplies, 1924-25 (s0 

OPW5RW – 18231/24 – 5559/25 

18231/24 Railways Act, 1896 and Southern Railways, routine correspondence (ml) 

2926/25 guaranteed light railways, arbitrators, names listed (m) 

4969/25 maintenance/repairs Pickle Point Pier, Belmullet, 1915-25 (m) 

5559/25 conveyance notes for consignment of government goods, on railways (ml) 

OPW5RW – 5779/25 – 1191/26 

579/25 electric poles on GSWR lands, Fermoy (s) 

12773/25 Burtonport line lands (1p) 

17057/25 Strabane-Letterkenny Railway, acquisition of lands, file 2 (ml) 

1191/26 Collooney-Ballina-Belmullet Railway, proposed government grant (m) 

OPW Engineering Files: Hatch St basement records 

Box 1 

Shannon survey notebook: Lanesboro-Tarmonbarry (levels etc), 1959 

Shannon Navigation: traffic reports (completed forms), July-Dec 1963 

H17/40 Haulbowline: transfer of tools etc to defence forces, 1940-42 (lists of 

equipment, some correspondence, BOW irritation) (s) 

H21/42 Haulbowline, general, 1942-March 1944 (routine supplies & orders, lists, 

Irish Steel) (s) 

a Haulbowline: SO file (general), room 55, 1924-32 (list of maintenance 

staff etc, inventory and sale of equipment, control of leased shops, 

510

valuation of property, agreements between OPW and Petersen & Albeck 

Shipbreakers, water supply & submarine main, fire extinguishers, ferry 

service, Hulk ‘Colleen’, damage to water barge, plant returned by Petersen 

& Albeck, damage and repairs to submarine water main, staff wages, 

electricity supply, visit of min of finance Oct 1932) (m)* 

b Haulbowline: houses – SO, 1933-38 (residential tenancies, house 

maintenance, dredger insurance, inspections, repairs to submarine water 

main) (s) 

c Haulbowline: general file – SO, 1937-38 (replacing coaling jetty, 

dockyard lettings listed, renewal of water main, staff holidays under 1936 

Act, parts requisitions, working of 10 ton crane, labourer’s pay, 

rehabilitation of water barge, patent slip, painting coal bunkers, draft 

estimates for Haulbowline for 1938-39, discharge of Eugene O’Callaghan, 

photo of water barge, staff lists etc, leave applications, technical 

description of ‘Colleen’, policing dockyard) (m 

d Haulbowline general, 1937-39 (list residential tenants, OPW launch & 

repair specifications, jurisdiction of Cork Harbour Board, water supplies, 

fire in premises of oil company in Dec 1938, officers in charge, pay rates, 

reconditioning of dockyard, water turbines, agreements with oil company, 

ordinary work of OPW launch, ESB cables to Haulbowline, steam 

capstan, estimates for 1939-40, Dockyard inspection of October 1938, 

inception of Irish Steel, Island Garda station, annual costs of launch, 

reconstruction of coaling jetty and Cork Oil Wharves Ltd, lease of 

canteen, transfer of the state ports in 1938: advice of OPW, list of shops in 

Haulbowline, accident to crane) (m)* 

e Chairman’s visit to Haulbowline, 26 th Nov 1936 (account of inspection, 

residential tenancies, dilapidation report of 27 th Aug 1936) (s)* 

f Haulbowline 1937 (repair of quay wall, coaling jetty & hulk ‘Colleen’, 

employment of superintendent, appt of engineers & site responsibilities, 

rushbrook dockyard, naval jetty) (s)* 

g Haulbowline: apportionment of wages & materials, 1932-33 (forms, 

weekly labour & material costs, subheadings) (s) 

? Haulbowline: apportionment of wages & salaries, 1931-32 (weekly formal 

breakdown of costs as above) (s) 

? Haulbowline: apportionment of wages & stores, 1930-31 (weekly 

breakdown of costs as above) (s) 

Box 2 

a Haulbowline: apportionment of wages sheets, 1935-37 (weekly 

breakdown of costs) (s) 

b Haulbowline: apportionment of wages sheets, 1933-35 (weekly 

breakdown of wages and materials) (s) 

511

A23/42 Haulbowline: apportionment of wages etc, 1942-44 (weekly breakdown of 

costs) (s) 

c Engineer’s branch, Haulbowline, 1935-37 (list artesian well boring tools 

lent to MJ Burke at Ballyvourney College; list of diving gear held at 

Haulbowline in May 1935; plan for siting of water meters, Oct 1935; 

wonderful HM Naval map of Haulbowline, 1932; renovation of residence 

of M. Leahy on island, 1936; breach in sea wall, May 1936; pilfering 

timbers, Aug 1936; progress of various approved works at dockyard, Jan 

1937; maintenance costs for dockyard, early 1937; establishment of 

galvanizing business at dockyard, March 1937; various repair works 

detailed, Feb 1937; leave issues, Feb 1937; disciplinary action taken on 

slack workmen, feb 1937; Haulbowline estimates 1937-38; renewal of 

submarine water main, Jan 1937; tenancies – households & industries; 

lease of boathouse, Aug 1938; nice envelope addressed to JP Doyle, 

Engineers Branch, OPW etc, 1936; report on state of Haulbowline island, 

Aug 1936) (m)* 

6 Haulbowline: repairs to dockyard premises, Jan 1937 (diving suit sent to 

Shannon Navigation, Jan 1937) (s)* 

d Haulbowline: repairs to motor launch, Mar 1936 (s) 

e Haulbowline: submarine water main survey, April 1936; loan of water 

barge; damage to sea wall & slopes, Sept 1936; renewal of docks, July 

1936; taking possession from Haulbowline Industries, Aug 1936: 

examination of works; storm damage & repairs, July 1937; sanction for 

expenses to foremen, gangers, drivers on engineering works, May 1936; 

transfer of equipment from H. Industries to OPW, April 1936; report on 

Pumping Station, Air Compressing station, plant & cranes, slipways etc 

after use by Petersen & Albeck, March 1936; work on SS Bosworth at 

Haulbowline, Aug 1925 – various management issues etc) 

H16/40 Haulbowline: waste of water by Irish Steel, 1940-41 (account of 

consumption of fresh water by Irish Steel, Jan 1941 and measures taken by 

OPW to prevent recurrence) (s)* 

f Haulbowline; apportionment of wages & stores, 1928-1930 (weekly 

breakdown) (s) 

g List of Haulbowline files (from Jan 1936 to Jan 1938) (s) 

H32/47 Haulbowline: annual estimates, 1937/38 to 1947/48 (incl staff wages) 

(m)* 

h Haulbowline: renewal of crane trackways & misc, 1934 

i Haulbowline: monthly maintenance reports, May-Nov 1934 (costs) (s)* 

j Haulbowline: machinery – task of putting 30 ton crane under steam, July 

1937 (s)* 

H35/46 Haulbowline: Cork dockyard company (terms and conditions of licence, 

1946) (s) 

H28/44 Haulbowline: houses and gardens (commercial and residential tenancies, 

maintenance, 1943-46) (s) 

H30/44 Haulbowline: apportionment of wages, 1944-47 (breakdown weekly of 

costs) (s) 

512

H25/42 Haulbowline: Irish Steel Ltd, 1942-47 (use & maintenance of dockyard 

cranes, supply of cooling water) (s)* 

H24/42 Haulbowline; dept of defence, 1940-44 (defence looking to create 

permanent marine depot on the island, Dec 1946; occupation of part of 

island by defence in early 1940s; valuation of plant in Defence hands, Jan 

1943; some Shannon navigation letters on dredging round Killaloe in 

1942; programme of dredging on behalf of Dept of Defence, March 1942) 

(s)* 

H26/43 Haulbowline: services to airport (repair & maintenance of aircraft 

moorings at Cobh, March 1943, nice drawings of moorings and cables) 

(s)* 

H36/46 Haulbowline: weekly & quarterly reports, July 1946-June 1947 (detailed 

work activities of carpenters etc at Haulbowline in period; quarterly 

reports providing routine duties of OPW staff, April-June 1946) (m)* 

H29/44 Haulbowline: general file, 1944-47 (proposed jetties at Haulbowline, Mar 

1947; mooring corvettes at Haulbowline, Jan 1946; inspection of buoys, 

Oct 1946; demolition of Pickle Point pier in Mayo in mid-1946 and 

planned removal of wooden pier at Haulbowline; decoration of RC 

Church, Sept 1946; repairs to crane, July 1946; sale of hulk, ‘Colleen’, 

‘HMS Royalist’, July 1946 (with drawings etc); hiring out diving gear to 

Hammond Lane Metal Co Ltd, June 1946; electric lights for island 

residents, June 1946; purchase of Stanley Range, April 1946; list of 

tenancies on island (71), June 1946; dispatch of reinforced glass to Dun 

Laoighaire, May 1946; list of emergency stock held on island, March 

1946; orders and receipts: headed shop notepaper, 1944-47; works 

schedule, Dec 1945; requisitions for materials, 1945; repairs to naval jetty, 

1936-45; examination of aircraft mooring cables, Nov 1945; sale of logs in 

Rushbrooke Dockyard, June 1945; lighting of RC Church, Dec 1944; 

Diving dress sent to Foynes, Oct 1944; Brooks Thomas receipt, Sept 1944; 

engineering inspection of Haulbowline plant: railway lines, bridges, jetty, 

slipway, capstan, winding house, cranes, buoys, etc, May 1940; traffic on 

naval jetty, Aug 1944; plan of jetty, 1935; sketch of Black Prince wooden 

pier, May 1944) (m)* 

H39/49 Haulbowline: ferry service company (removal of shed attached to cement 

store, July 1944; business of ferry company c. March 1940 related to Irish 

Steel: issue of rent increases) (s)* 

H34/47 Haulbowline: Cobh naval jetty (two receipts) (s) 

H41/47 Haulbowline; Spy Hill reservoir & water supplies, 1941-46 (posts and 

fencing; cleaning of reservoirs; quantities of water consumed at Spike 

Island, Haulbowline, Cork Harbour Oil Wharves, 1938-42; new road 

boundaries, July 1942; Smith & Pearson tender (& others) for fencing 

material – with ‘War Emergency’ sticker, Jan 1941; dangers of inspecting 

the Spy Hill reservoir tanks, Jan 1941) (s)* 

k Shannon embankments: general, 1963 (notes on costs; requisitions for 

CEW stores during Erne survey, 1960 & Shannon embankment survey, 

513

Box 3 

May 1963; notes on survey of River Maigue; ‘The River Crossens 

Drainage Scheme’, The Engineer, 28 th July 1961) (s) 

(note JP Doyle seems to have been in charge of most of the small piers and harbours) 

a River Shannon embankments, south bank: Ballynaclough River, details of 

estimate incl quantities, 1963 (costs of excavation, shaping, fencing, 

bushes, sluices, travel by section; estimate machine weeks; machine 

traveling costs; 

b list of civil engineers by section, OPW, Aug 1982 (118 in total, post 

embargo) 

c Ardglass Harbour: dredging for NI govt, by ‘Saxifrage’, 1927 (repairs by 

NI authorities: Min of Finance – works and public buildings; coal receipts; 

passage costs etc listed) (s) 

? Works at Cape Clear Harbour, 1912-24 (repairs to Duffy’s pier under 

harbour constable, March 1912; supply of oil to harbour constable, Cotter, 

for lights, delays in OPW office, Oct 1912; instructions on repairs to 

Duffy’s pier, March 1913; Board of Public Works certificate of test on 

cement at Kingstown harbour yard, 1913; sketches of pier by working 

diver, Forsyth of Kingstown, April 1913; orders for cement, 1913, dispute 

with providers over ‘useless’ bags; whalebone scrubbers, booms lost in 

harbour, supplies transferred from Kingstown to Cape Clear, annual 

repairs: 1914-19; pier inspection, c.Aug 1919; repair instructions to fitter, 

Aug-Sept 1919; sketch of hook; removal of wreck ‘Welcome Home’, Nov 

1919; Diver Forsyth active in Dec 1919; annual repairs to early 

1920s/transport problems to the island/new crane in 1922/economizing 

evident in 1923 at end of file) (ml)* 

d Kilronan pier: maintenance file, 1909-30 (lifebuoys ordered 1912, 1921; 

harbour constable Costello complains about ‘chasms’ in BOW protection 

walls in 1924; small repairs done) (s) 

e Minor relief works, Innishirrir, Donegal, 1934 (repairing damage to 

slipway, sketch, worksheets from Sept to Nov) (s) 

f Dooagh slip, Achill, Mayo, 1925-30 (nice problems getting tools from 

Clare Island & Achill Sound, nice sketch and instructions/reports; most 

work done in 1927) (s)* 

g Portaleen harbour, Carndonagh, Donegal, 1923-33 (retailers in 

Carndonagh etc; railway strike; usual instructions and bits and pieces) 

(sm) 

h Minor relief scheme: Pollawaddy, Aranmore Island (improvts to 

harbours), 1933 (usual reports etc) (s) 

i Tory Island national monuments protection, 1929 (plans, sea wall to 

protect round tower etc), (s) 

514

j Sligo harbour (dredging 1904-1919; reconstruction plans for Sligo jetties, 

1927) (s)* 

k Trabaun, Coulagh Bay, Cork, repairs to boat slip (CDB pier), 1932 (s) 

l Reen jetty, Cork – fishery piers and harbours (injured by fire in 1922 

troubles, repaired by Haulbowline men in 1929) (t) 

m Counalahee harbour, Glenbeigh, Kerry, improvts 1925-26 (lots blasting, 

explosives in rocks) (s)* 

n Portacloy pier (late CDB), Mayo & reconstruction of bridge to pier, 1931 

(usual repts etc), (m) 

o Mace pier, Galway (late CDB), repairs 1927-28 (nice example, ponies & 

hookers, lists etc) (sm)* 

p Trafrask pier, Cork (late CDB), report of caretaker, 1930 (t) 

q Ballyglass slip, Mayo, repairs 1929 (ok) (vs) 

r Passage East, Waterford, dredging by Saxifrage (dissatisfaction with selfindulgence 

of captain and crew) (s)* 

s Coney Island, Sligo, landing slip, 1932 (usual stuff) (sm) 

t Inishirrer Island, Donegal, slip improvts, 1935 (t) 

u Marine Works, Limerick harbour development, proposed emergency 

employt schemes, 1941 (report on planned work and estimates of costs 

etc) (s) 

v Minor relief schemes, Lower Rath, landing place, 1933 (usual) (s) 

w tabulated analysis of works proposed in 1830s for Shannon Navigation & 

deviations in carrying out scheme and later changes up to Lynam (1880s?) 

(s)* 

x Ballydonnegan (Castletownbere), fishery piers etc transferred from 

M/Fisheries, 1923-33 (vs) 

y Minor relief scheme, Cape Clear, Cork, 1933 (steps and repair to quay: 

works supervised by Cotter, harbour constable pre-independence) (s)*? 

Box 4 

a Minor relief schemes, Sheep Island, Bere Island, Cork, construction of 

slip, 1933-34 (nice plans, job applications incl one from carpenter on 

Naval Base in Bere Island, usual reports and instructions) (sm)*? 

M32/41 Marine works, Mace, Galway, 1941 (requisitions, tools, forms, plan of a 

beacon, repair to breakwater, specs & instructions to OPW foreman) (sm)* 

b Clogher Head, engineer’s report on necessary improvts, Dec 1933 (t)* 

c Clogher Head, specs for improvements, 1935 (with pencil notes) (s)* 

d Clogher Head papers (shop headed papers: requisitions and purchases, 

nice) (s)* 

e Clogher Head harbour, minor marine works, 1936-37 (usual reports etc) 

(m)* 

f Clogher Head: question of payment of traveling expenses to foreman (t)* 

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g Clogher Head harbour works: supplies of petrol on recommencement of 

work, April 1936 (t) 

h Clogher Head: steel supplies: purchases, tenders, shop headed paper (s)* 

i Marine works; Corragh, Downings, Co Donegal (t) 

j Marine works; Castlepoint, Co Cork, 1940-42 (D Nyland foreman of 

Mayo: usual reports, plans, etc) (s)* 

? Cuaisin Cove, Co Kerry (usual reports, sketch) 

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Files copied (15 th Aug 2008) 

1849.59 done 

1860.69 to do 

1871-81 done 

1882 ? 

1883 to do 

1884 done 

1885-87 to do 

(except have done 5348-9643/85) 

1888-89 done 

1890-93 to do 

1894-95 done 

1896-99 to do 

1900-03 recalls done, small files to do 

1904 not yet listed (6 boxes) 

1905-08 done, perhaps some recalls to do (?) 

1909 not yet listed (5 boxes) 

1910-14 apparently done (perhaps some recalls to be done?) 

1915-34 to do 

Eamonn photography lists 

(mid-April 2008) 

(late April 2008) 

517

6961/01 Galway harbour (plans property) 

7269/01 Barronstown dispensary residence (plans) 

1213/03 Blackrock Presbyterian glebe (plans) 

3931/03 St Anne’s convent national school (plan heating apparatus) 

12933/03 Donoughmore glebe (plans) 

13074/03 Cootehill teacher’s residence (plans) 

3353/05 Naas working class houses (plans) 

3690/05 Burt manse/glebe (plans) 

3705/05 Seskin Avenue dispensary residence (plans) 

3805/05 Gortmore national school (plans) 

4076/05 Clifden pier (plans) 

14889/05 Phoenix Park (plans) 

15690/05 Eel tanks, Shannon (map) 

5252/05 Shannon bridge (plans) 

518

Files recalled: calendared as ordered and photographed 

OPWnewfiles1 

OPW5/6540/98 

OPW5/2289/98 

OPW5/7726/98 

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