Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DONEGAL, ARDS HOUSE

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DONEGAL, ARDS HOUSE
Date: 1802a
Nature: 'splendid mansion' described by McParland: 'consists in front of two principal rooms, 40 feet by 30 each, brilliantly lighted by lofty and bowed windows; the middle compartment between those two rooms is a very fine hall…lighted at the top by a large glass dome; this opens into a light handsome staircase, which leads to two stories of suitable sleeping rooms'. Wing, consisting of breakfast room, &c.
Refs: McParlan, Statistcal Survey of Co. Donegal (1802), 12

Name: HARGRAVE, JOHN
Building: CO. DONEGAL, ARDS HOUSE
Date: 1830
Nature: New front?, for Alexander Stewart.
Refs: APSD, H 23

Name: LANYON, JOHN
Building: CO. DONEGAL, ARDS HOUSE
Date: 1874-1875
Nature: Proposed repairs to house and alts. to stables. Also proposed alterations to grounds. For Alexander Stewart. (House demolished 1965)
Refs: MS correspondence between JL, ? Murphy and A.J. R. Stewart, 1874-75, in IAA, Acc.2007/47.1; undated (and unexecuted) designs by JL for remodelling house in private collection, Sep 2003

Name: NIVEN, NINIAN
Building: CO. DONEGAL, ARDS HOUSE
Date: ?
Nature: Garden terraces 'designed by Mr Nevin[sic]'..
Refs: Ms letter from ? Murphy, Dunfanaghy, to A.J.R. Stewart, 28 Aug 1874, in IAA, Acc. 2007/47.1/2