Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILDARE, JIGGINSTOWN HOUSE

Name: ALLEN, JOHN*# [1]
Building: CO. KILDARE, JIGGINSTOWN HOUSE
Date: ca 1636
Nature: For Sir Thomas Wentworth (later Earl of Strafford), Lord Deputy of Ireland. Attributed to Allen possibly with some involvement by Wentworth. Described as a 'princely mansion', built of stone from foundation to the first floor, the rest of brick (said to have been brought from Holland), 360 feet in length to the front with 24 windows on the ground floor, and with a square pavilion to each side, higher than the front.
Refs: R. Loeber, Architects in Ireland 1600 - 1720 (London, 1981), 13
Description of building from Thomas J. Mulvany The Life of James Gandon (Dublin, 1846), 255-56