Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CASTLEMARTYR, CASTLE MARTYR

Name: MORRISON, JOHN [1]
Building: CO. CORK, CASTLEMARTYR, CASTLE MARTYR
Date: 1762
Nature: Drawings and suggestions for gates, for 2nd Earl of Shannon. (Gateway from town described by Beaufort, 1788, as 'lately built in a very bad stile in imitation of Gothick'.)
Refs: Letter from JM to Lord Shannon, Midleton, 16 Nov 1762, in NLI, MS 13300 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, CASTLEMARTYR, CASTLE MARTYR
Date: 1764p
Nature: Additions, by 2nd Earl of Shannon (succ. 1764) including dining room (32 x 22ft and drawing room, a double cube 50 x 25 x 25ft., which was much admired by Young in Sep 1776.
Refs: Arthur Young, Tour in Ireland (1780), II, 46

Name: FARQUHARSON, HORACE COWLEY NESHAM #
Building: CO. CORK, CASTLEMARTYR, CASTLE MARTYR
Date: 1922a
Nature: Renovation 'including a new roof and cornice carried right round the building, as well as the pediment and new entrance'
Refs: Building News 125, 23 Nov 1923, 578(illus.)

Name: FRASER, JAMES
Building: CO. CORK, CASTLEMARTYR, CASTLE MARTYR
Date: ?
Nature: Garden designed by Fraser for 4th Earl of Shannon.
Refs: Edward Malins & Patrick Bowe, Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830(1980), 28