Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WICKLOW, GLENART CASTLE (FORMERLY KILCARRA CASTLE)

Name: NEVILLE, PARKE
Building: CO. WICKLOW, GLENART CASTLE (FORMERLY KILCARRA CASTLE)
Date: 1846-47
Nature: Designs for new drawing room and other alts. For Hon. Granville Leveson Proby (later 3rd Earl of Carysfort). Contractor: John Butler.
Refs: 9 drawings, s. & d. 1846-47, and estimate by John Butler, in NLI, old ref. AD 1469-1477

Name: MCCURDY, JOHN
Building: CO. WICKLOW, GLENART CASTLE (FORMERLY KILCARRA CASTLE)
Date: 1869
Nature: Extensive works involving demolition and restoration commenced for Hon. William Proby. Contractor: S.H. Bolton. Estimated cost: £15,000.
Refs: Drawings, 1869, in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell collection, Acc. 79/17;  IB 11, 15 Oct 1869, 237; Architect 2, 23 Oct 1869, 206.

Name: SHEPPARD, WILLIAM
Building: CO. WICKLOW, GLENART CASTLE (FORMERLY KILCARRA CASTLE)
Date: 1872-74ca
Nature: Employed by 5th Earl of Carysfort to make new gardens.
Refs: Irish Times, 14 Sep 1874; Thom's Official Directory (1883), advertisement supplement, 76; E. Malins & P. Bowe, Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830 (1980), 60(illus.),61.

Name: BIRCH, JOHN #
Building: CO. WICKLOW, GLENART CASTLE (FORMERLY KILCARRA CASTLE)
Date: 1879a
Nature: Bridge, for 5th Earl of Carysfort.
Refs: John Birch, Picturesque Lodges (1879), Pl.15

Name: BIRCH, JOHN #
Building: CO. WICKLOW, GLENART CASTLE (FORMERLY KILCARRA CASTLE)
Date: 1879a
Nature: Two gate lodges, for 5th Earl of Carysfort.
Refs: John Birch, Picturesque Lodges (1879), Pls. 13,14

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WICKLOW, GLENART CASTLE (FORMERLY KILCARRA CASTLE)
Date: 1889
Nature: New entrance for 5th Earl of Carysfort.. 'Mr Throe', engineer, 'carried out his lordship's plans and surveys'.
Refs: Wicklow Newsletter, 22 Jun 1889

Name: BIRCH, JOHN #
Building: CO. WICKLOW, GLENART CASTLE (FORMERLY KILCARRA CASTLE)
Date: ?
Nature: Labourers' cottages for 5th Earl of Carysfort.
Refs: John Birch, Concrete buildings for landed estates in Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1881), ?

Name: JONES & KELLY
Building: CO. WICKLOW, GLENART CASTLE (FORMERLY KILCARRA CASTLE)
Date: ?
Nature: ?Works at.
Refs: Information from Felix A. Jones in letter to A.M. Rowan, March 1998

Name: MITCHELL, WILLIAM MANSFIELD
Building: CO. WICKLOW, GLENART CASTLE (FORMERLY KILCARRA CASTLE)
Date: ?
Nature: 'important additions', for 5th  Earl of Carysfort (d. 1909).
Refs: Obituary of Mitchell by R.M. Butler in IB 52, 19 Mar 1910, 173