John McCurdy received his professional training in the office of Frederick Darley, architect to Trinity College, Dublin. He succeeded Benjamin Holebrook as clerk of works at Trinity College in 1850. Shortly afterwards he became the official college architect, a post which he retained until his death. In 1872 he formed an architectural partnership with William Mansfield Mitchell, which was dissolved in 1882.
He was a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and was president for the last ten years of his life of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland.
The Royal Schools were ‘free schools’ created by James I in 1608 to provide an education to the sons of local merchants and farmers during the plantation of Ulster.
Founded in the late 1780s, built by Peter La Touche at a cost of £5,000 and possibly designed by Whitmore Davis,
The chapel was designed by Sir William Chambers in 1798 to match his Examination Hall across the quadrangle.
Originally built in 1789, but re-modelled in 1830 by John Semple, the Church of Ireland in Monkstown is an extravagant piece of 19th century church architecture.
Designed by J.S. Mulvany for the Dublin & Kingstown Railway Co., around 1836 but not constructed until 1843.
Design for a proposed building at St. Columba’s College, Co. Dublin by Philip Charles Hardwick –
Richard Morrison’s original building of 1807 stood well back from the pavement on a site which had been chosen in 1797 for a Sessions House to replace the decayed 17th Century building further up the main street.
A curiously domestic top floor, almost bungalow-looking, has been added to this warehouse and office building by McCurdy.
Castellated entrance on Mullingar side of Knockdrin demesne, for Sir Richard Levinge, Bt.
Unsuccessful entrant in competition to design a new College of Physicians on Kildare Street. McCurdy was awarded the sum of fifty pounds for his efforts.
