Selected: CO. DOWN, KILLYLEAGH CASTLE
Name: | DUFF & JACKSON |
Building: | CO. DOWN, KILLYLEAGH CASTLE |
Date: | 1830-31 |
Nature: | Additions to Georgian house at gates. Replaced ca1860 with gatehouse designed by Benjamin Ferrey. |
Refs: | Dublin Penny Journal II (1833), 201; Alistair Rowan, 'Killyleagh Castle, Co. Down - I', Country Life 147, 19 Mar 1970, 693; H. Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1972), 7. |
Name: | LANYON, CHARLES (SIR) |
Building: | CO. DOWN, KILLYLEAGH CASTLE |
Date: | 1849-51 |
Nature: | Designs for castle 'as lately restored' exh. RHA 1861. Cost: £8,000. Builders: D. & J. Fulton. Stonework: Kelly & McCready. For Archibald Rowan Hamilton. |
Refs: | RHA 1861, no. 613; DB 3, 15 May 1861, 508; 6, 15 Jan 1863 ,6(illus.); Alistair Rowan, 'Killyleagh Castle, Co. Down - II', Country Life 147, 26 Mar 1970, 776-777(illus.) |
Name: | FERREY, BENJAMIN # |
Building: | CO. DOWN, KILLYLEAGH CASTLE |
Date: | 1861 |
Nature: | Rebuilding of gateway and outworks. For 5th Baron Dufferin. Design exh. at RA, 1861; '...in spite of its battering walls, and unorthodox looking gateway, lacks much of the nerve and feeling of that genuine ancient work which it too feebly imitaties' (Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal) |
Refs: | Plan and elevation in collection of Marquess of Dufferin & Ava, see Hugh Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1972), 16, no. 53(illus.); RA 1861, no. 661( 'Restoration of the gateway and outworks of Killyleagh Castle'); Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 24 (Jun 1861), 156; Alistair Rowan, 'Killyleagh Castle, Co. Down - II', Country Life 147, 26 Mar 1970, 774(illus.),775(illus.),777. |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. DOWN, KILLYLEAGH CASTLE |
Date: | 1865 |
Nature: | Proposed works to entrance of same. For Frederick Temple, 5th Baron Dufferin. Contractor: James Henry. |
Refs: | IAA, PKS B03/19, A03 (May 1865, p.62v), L1 (pp. 823-4) |