1909 – Post Office, Tullamore, Co. Offaly
Architect: J. Howard Pentland, Board of Public Works
An unusual Post Office building on O’Connor Square,
An unusual Post Office building on O’Connor Square,
Nicely sited on the bank of a small river,
Built by T. F. McNamara for Malachy Scally as a drapery emporium between 1911-14 at a cost of £5,000,
After the second Durrow Abbey House was gutted by fire during the Civil War in 1923.
Scott’s hospital at Tullamore, although faced with traditional limestone masonry,
In 1974, the Irish Department of Education organised an open architectural ideas competition for the design of a new type of building – a ‘community school’.
Occupying the site of a Victorian house in the main affluent area of the town,
Now home to Birr Civic Offices and Library,