Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WICKLOW, CHARLEVILLE (OLD HOUSE)

Name: DAVIS, WHITMORE [2]
Building: CO. WICKLOW, CHARLEVILLE (OLD HOUSE)
Date: 1789a
Nature: Work on old house (destroyed by fire in 1792), for ?Henry Monck.. (Bence Jones says new house also designed by Davis, 1797)
Refs: Introduction by Knight of Glin to catalogue of Christie's sale at Charleville, 23-24 Jan 1978, citing list of houses 'chiefly built under his [Davis's] immediate direction' in Dublin Evening Post 1789; Elisabeth Batt, The Moncks and Charleville (1979), 23,27(illus.); Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 82