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 |