Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROCKINGHAM (BOYLE)

Name: NASH, JOHN
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROCKINGHAM (BOYLE)
Date: 1809-1810;1822
Nature: Classical, for 1st Viscount Lorton. Added extra storey 1822.  Gothic chapel, lakeside gazebo, Castle Island folly 'locally attributed to Nash' (Mansbridge). (House destroyed by fire, 1957; ruin demolished Sep 1971.)
Refs: Elevations and plans by John Nash in collection of Lady Joan Dunn, 2009 (photographs in IAA);  Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn, 2008), 735-6, citing building accounts in NLI, MS 3755 (or 3775?) and James Bettley, 'Vignettes of a vanished house', Country Life 184, 17 Nov 1988, 116-117; NLI, MS 3776 for payment to Nash of £5,706-12s in period 1809-1812 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Michael Mansbridge, John Nash (1991), 164-5(illus.); F. O'Dwyer, '"A Noble Pile in the late Tudor Style": Mitchelstown Castle', Irish Arts Review 18 (2002), 32

Name: LYNN, JOHN [1]
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROCKINGHAM (BOYLE)
Date: 1810
Nature: JL clerk of works.
Refs: NLI, MSS 3775, 8810, MS. Joly 12, p. 72 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: SUTHERLAND, JOHN
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROCKINGHAM (BOYLE)
Date: 1810p
Nature: Design of demesne, for Robert King, 1st Viscount Lorton. Works included tunnel from house to stable block, follies, castles, lodges. For 1st Viscount Lorton.
Refs: Keith Lamb & Patrick Bowe, A History of Gardening in Ireland (National Botanic Gardens, 1995), 46

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROCKINGHAM (BOYLE)
Date: 1832
Nature: Abbey Gate and keeper's cottage for Viscount Lorton, built 1832 for £1,168.4d.
Refs: NLI, repotrts on private collections, No. 105.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROCKINGHAM (BOYLE)
Date: 1863
Nature: Restoration after fire, using contractor from London. For 2nd Viscount Lorton.
Refs: DB 5, 15 Sep 1863, 158, quoting 'Correspondent of Irish Times'

Name: TILDEN, PHILIP #
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROCKINGHAM (BOYLE)
Date: 1940s?
Nature: Reduction of accommodation by sealing off basement and upper floors, leaving exterior intact. Changes took 'three years of hard work'.
Refs: Philip Tilden, True Remembrances: the memoirs of an architect (Country Life, 1954), 170-171.

Name: LILLY, CHARLES
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROCKINGHAM (BOYLE)
Date: ?
Nature: CL works at same.
Refs: NLI, MSS 3775, 8810 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: PAIN, JAMES
Building: CO. ROSCOMMON, ROCKINGHAM (BOYLE)
Date: ?
Nature: Work for Nash.
Refs: NLI, MS. 8810 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)