Selected: CO. MEATH, HARTLANDS (CLONMELLON)
| Name: | SYMES, SANDHAM |
| Building: | CO. MEATH, HARTLANDS (CLONMELLON) |
| Date: | 1861 |
| Nature: | New house to be erected for Capt. Richard Donaldson. Italianate, with campanile and bold projecting eaves; 'evidently reflecting Symes's interest in the Clydside villas of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson'(Rowan & Casey). Tenders invited Mar 1861. |
| Refs: | DB 23, 15 Mar,1 Apr 1861, 460,472; Irish Times, 16 Mar 1861; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 213-4; Orla McShane, 'The Life and Times of Sandham Symes, Jr', unpublished thesis submitted to Trinity College, Dublin, for Moderatorship Part II Examination, 1988, 24-26, Pls. 58-64 |