Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILDARE, CURRAGH, RACECOURSE, STAND HOUSE (NEW)

Name: WOOD, SANCTON #
Building: CO. KILDARE, CURRAGH, RACECOURSE, STAND HOUSE (NEW)
Date: 1852-53
Nature: New stand house, for Great Southern & Western Railway. Symmetrical, 2-storey. FS laid May 1852 by Earl of Eglinton. Inaugurated by Earl of St Germain's Summer 1853. Cost: £3,000. (Partially demolished).
Refs: B 9, 18 Jan 1851, 46; 10, 15 May 1852, 312; 11, 30 Jul 1853, 484; Gordon Biddle, 'Sancton Wood - Railway Architect', II, BackTrack 21, no. 11 (Nov 2007), 699