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Fever Hospital, Naas, Co. Kildare, 1938

Grain Silo at Barrow St, Dublin, 1941
The medical advisers of the Department
Collen Brothers undertook its first project of Local Government condemned the
for the flour milling industry in 1941, existing fever hospital in Naas as unfit
building a new grain silo in Barrow Street.
for purpose. Kildare County Council was
The project involved the construction of a obliged to seek tenders to replace the
reinforced concrete silo, containing twelve
existing structure. Collen was awarded
storage bins with a capacity to hold about the contract in May 1935 to build ‘a new
70 tons of grain each. The job presented hospital for communicable diseases’.
some technical difficulty, as a very smooth The design of the hospital, by Dublin
surface finish was required to the concrete architect Vincent Kelly, incorporated
in the silos. Harky’s younger son, Lyal, who separate accommodation and facilities
had recently graduated from Trinity College for patients with different illnesses,
Dublin with a degree in civil engineering, along with isolation rooms to facilitate
took the opportunity to experiment with his the observation of patients where a
own system for achieving a high quality diagnosis of their condition was unclear.
finish. He evolved a new method of The new hospital was formally opened
vibrating the concrete, which later became by Seán T. O’Kelly, the Tánaiste and
a well-known technique and was highly Minister for Local Government, on 21
innovative in the early 1940s. July 1938.

Stand and Tote at Fairyhouse Racecourse

Collen Brothers provided a new stand and
Tote for Fairyhouse racecourse in 1947;
the new stand was designed and built
within eight weeks. The company
provided Tote facilities for race meetings
throughout the country, including
traditional venues such as the Curragh,

Punchestown and the Phoenix Park.

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