Selected: CO. MAYO, ASHFORD CASTLE (CONG)
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. MAYO, ASHFORD CASTLE (CONG) |
Date: | 1862 |
Nature: | New cottages and farmers' houses (costing from £2120 to £150 each), new roads, land reclamation and afforestation being carried out by Benjamin Lee Guinness. |
Refs: | DB 4, 15 Aug 1862, 213 |
Name: | ROBERTS, SAMUEL USSHER |
Building: | CO. MAYO, ASHFORD CASTLE (CONG) |
Date: | 1872-74 |
Nature: | Works at same. Builder: John Semple. |
Refs: | IAA, PKS 0627, B06/26 |
Name: | FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN |
Building: | CO. MAYO, ASHFORD CASTLE (CONG) |
Date: | 1875-1881 |
Nature: | Large additions for Lord Ardilaun. Builder: Henry Sharpe. £41,343. Clerk of works: Thomas Hamilton. |
Refs: | IAA, PKS B06a/50, B07/14, B08/05, B9/03, B10/03, A/06 (Sep 1875); J.F. Fuller, 'Reminiscences of Fifty Years', IB Jubilee Number 1909, 24; J.F. Fuller, Omniana (1916), 169,184; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 12-13(illus.) |
Name: | HOGAN, JAMES, & SONS * |
Building: | CO. MAYO, ASHFORD CASTLE (CONG) |
Date: | 1875a |
Nature: | Work recently completed at same for Sir Arthur Guinness. |
Refs: | Advertisements by JH & Sons in Irish Times, 29 Oct,1,15,17,22 Nov 1875 and Freeman's Journal, 6 Nov 1875. |
Name: | FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN |
Building: | CO. MAYO, ASHFORD CASTLE (CONG) |
Date: | 1881 |
Nature: | Wrought iron gates, for Lord Ardilaun. Executed by Fagan & Sons, Gt Brunswick St. |
Refs: | IB 23, 15 May 1881, 159 |
Name: | ASHLIN, GEORGE COPPINGER |
Building: | CO. MAYO, ASHFORD CASTLE (CONG) |
Date: | 1884-6 |
Nature: | 3 gateways, 1 lodge, drawbridge, rampart & river walls, garden steps &c. Builder: J. & W. Beckett. |
Refs: | IAA, PKS 0627, 0628, B12/04, B13/23, A07, pp.137,229 (Aug 1884, Sep 1885); design for bridge exh. RHA 1886, no. 552 |
Name: | STRYPE, WILLIAM GEORGE |
Building: | CO. MAYO, ASHFORD CASTLE (CONG) |
Date: | 1888a |
Nature: | Large pumping plant.for water supply. and patent slip. For Lord Ardilaun. |
Refs: | Min.Proc.Inst.CE 134 (1897-8, Pt. IV), 413, IB 30, 15 Jun 1888, 163 |
Name: | DIXON, EDWARD KEVILLE |
Building: | CO. MAYO, ASHFORD CASTLE (CONG) |
Date: | 1918 |
Nature: | Extensive improvements, for 1st Viscount Iveagh. |
Refs: | IB 60, 12 Oct 1918, 394 |