Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILDARE, DONADEA CASTLE

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. KILDARE, DONADEA CASTLE
Date: 1773
Nature: 'Elizabethan front' erected in 1773. For Sir Fitzgerald Aylmer (who, according to William Wenman Seward, |Topographia Hibernica| (1795), ?, repaired ruined castle 'at considerable expense')
Refs: J.B. Burke, Visitation of Seats and Arms (2nd ser., 1855), I, 80-81

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. KILDARE, DONADEA CASTLE
Date: 1812
Nature: 'handsome porch'. For Sir Fenton Aylmer. (Is this Richard Morrison's work?, see Bence-Jones)
Refs: J.B. Burke, Visitation of Seats and Arms (2nd ser., 1855), I, 80-81

Name: AYLMER, GERALD GEORGE (SIR)
Building: CO. KILDARE, DONADEA CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: Cottages on estate.
Refs: Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 3 (1899-1902), 177

Name: AYLMER, GERALD GEORGE (SIR)
Building: CO. KILDARE, DONADEA CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: Alterations
Refs: W. Sherlock, ed., 'Donadea and the Aylmer family', Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 3 (1899-1902), 177.

Name: MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR)
Building: CO. KILDARE, DONADEA CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: 'bowed centre of ca 1800' attr. to Richard Morrison' by Bence Jones (but cf. Burke). ?For Sir Fenton Aylmer, Bt., who married a da. of Sir John Evans Freke, 2nd Bt., in 1795 (see Castle Freke, Co. Cork). (House demolished, 1940)
Refs: Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 104

Name: WILKINSON, GEORGE
Building: CO. KILDARE, DONADEA CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: Proposal for gate lodge and gate for Sir Gerald Aylmer (succ. 1816; d. 1878) may have been designed by GW.
Refs: Unsigned elevation and ground plan in collection of drawings, chiefly of antiquities, which formerly belonged to GW, now in NLI (George Wilkinson collection, AD 3588).