1595
Flood states (without source) that 'We meet with the name of Henry Nugent as organ-maker in Dublin in 1595'.
Flood, W.H. Grattan, 'Irish Organ-Builders from the Eighth to the Close of the Eighteenth Century', The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 5th ser., 40.3 (30 September 1910), 229–34 (p. 232)
Freeman, Andrew, 'Records of British Organ Builders, 940–1660', in Dictionary of Organs and Organists, ed. by Frederick W. Thornsby, 2nd edn. (London: Geo. Aug. Mate & Son, 1921), pp. 7–72 (p. 45)