Davis Ducart

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Davis Ducart
Born1699
Piedmont, Italy
Died1781
Drumrea, County Tyrone
OccupationArchitect
Buildings Castletown Cox
Custom House, Limerick

Davis Ducart (active from c. 1761, died 1780/81), was an architect and engineer in Ireland in the 1760s and 1770s. He designed several large buildings and engineering projects. He had associations with the canal builders of the time and the mining industry and worked on many projects in the County Tyrone coalfield. [1] [2]

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Early life and identity

His origins are uncertain, but thought to be Piedmontese and/or Sardinian his original name was Daviso de Arcort. [3] No relatives were mentioned in his will. [4]

Richard Killeen (2012) states that Ducart was an architect from Sardinia. [5]

Major projects in Ireland

In the mid 1700s Ducart worked as an engineer on the Coalisland Canal (known as Dukart's Canal) and the Newry Canal which linked County Tyrone coalfields to further navigation at Coalisland. [6] In Limerick Ducart produced the plan of plots to be leased in the Georgian extension of the city known as Newtown Pery and also those of the Custom House (1769), now home to the Hunt Museum. [7] [8]

Other buildings

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  3. ↑ De Breffny, Brian (1983). Ireland: A Cultural Encyclopedia. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 77.
  4. ↑ "Davis Ducart > Lifetime Lab". lifetimelab.ie. Archived from the original on 2 June 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
  5. ↑ Richard Killeen, Ireland in Brick and Stone: The Island's History in Its Buildings (2012), p. 120
  6. ↑ De Breffny, pg. 77
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  8. ↑ "Hunt Museum | About Us | The Building". huntmuseum.com. Archived from the original on 2 June 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
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