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) |