Cyril Farey
Proposed Limerick Buildings
1939-1941
2015/106.1-2
Watercolour prepared by Cyril A. Farey for Limerick architect Patrick J. Sheahan. An architect by training, Farey was one of the best-known and most sought-after architectural draughtsmen of his day, charging one shilling per square inch for colour perspectives and reputedly earning an enormous £5,000 per annum at the height of his career. Aside from Sheahan, it would appear that his only other Irish client was Rudolf Maximilian Butler.
This drawing dated 1939 and shows proposed new river-side civic offices and a court house. This Governmental complex designed by Sheahan was intended for a site on the Ennis Road, Limerick. The scheme was not proceeded with.
