Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Architect, of London, for whom see Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 (RIBA 2001), I, 99-100. In Ireland Balfour designed Hollybrook House, near Skibbereen, for Lt. Col. A.H. Morgan, circa 1905.(1) His designs for a proposed rectory for the parish of St Nicholas, Galway, on paper watermarked 1893, are in the RIBA drawings collection.(2)

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(1) RA 1902, No. 1516; B 61, 25 Apr 1903; Mark Bence-Jones,  Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978),  154(illus.).
(2) For biographical details and description of drawings, see Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects: A (1969), 13.


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Building: CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, RECTORY
Date: 1895
Nature: Proposal for  new rectory for Select Vestry of Parish of St Nicholas  (presumably submitted in competition announced in Irish Times, 5 Sep 1895).
Refs: Plans, elevations, perspective views in Victoria & Albert Museum, RIBA drawings collection, PB133/4,  see British Architectural Library Catalogue, http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/D2CHF7ylCJ/MAIN_CAT/268790059/9 (last visited May 2009) and Margaret Richardson, ed., Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects B (RIBA, 1972), 13.

Building: CO. CORK, HOLLYBROOK HOUSE (SKIBBEREEN)
Date: 1902-1903
Nature: New house, for Lt. Col. A.H. Morgan.
Refs: William Fullerton, Architectural Examples in Brick, Stone, Wood and Iron (3rd edition [1914]), 42, Pl.243); RA 1902, No. 1516; B 61, 25 Apr 1903, 436; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 154(illus.)

Building: CO. CORK, HOLLYBROOK HOUSE (SKIBBEREEN)
Date: 1905
Nature: Gate lodge.
Refs: RA 1905, No. 1470