Selected: CO. KILDARE, KILLADOON
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, KILLADOON |
Date: | 1776 |
Nature: | Although Clements was an amateur architect house 'lacks the characteristics of the houses known to be by him or convincingly attributed to him' (Bence-Jones) |
Refs: | Arthur Young, A Tour in Ireland…Selected & edited by Constantia Maxwell (1925), 7; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 169(illus.) |
Name: | CLEMENTS, NATHANIEL |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, KILLADOON |
Date: | 1776a |
Nature: | New house, built by Robert Clements, son of Nathaniel Clements. Visited by Arthur Young, 25 Jun 1776: 'to Mr Clements' at Killadoon, who has lately built an excellent house…' NC tentatively suggested as its architect, but according to Bence-Jones, 'apart from having the "pattern-book" tripartite doorway with a fanlight, a baseless pediment and engaged columns, which he [Nathaniel Clements] seems to have favoured, it lacks the characteristics of the houses known to be by him or convincingly attributed to him' (Bence-Jones). Attribution also questioned by Malcomson. |
Refs: |
Arthur Young, A Tour in Ireland…Selected & edited by Constantia Maxwell (1925), 7; Desmond FitzGerald, 'Nathaniel Clements and some eighteenth-century Irish Houses' in Apollo 84, Oct 1966, 321, n.23; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 169(illus.); A.P.W. Malcomson, Nathaniel Clements, 1705-77. Politics, fashion and architecture in mid-eighteenth-century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2015), 146-150. |
Name: | MURRAY, WILLIAM [1] |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, KILLADOON |
Date: | 1832 |
Nature: | Works at same (dressing room, bedroom?), for 2nd Earl of Leitrim. |
Refs: |
A.P.W. Malcomson, The Clements Archive (Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2010), 332. |
Name: | DREW, THOMAS (SIR) |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, KILLADOON |
Date: | 1880-82;1885 |
Nature: | Alterations, for Col. Henry Theophilus Clements. Builder: Joseph Pemberton. Also proposed pair of cottages and proposed steward's house. |
Refs: | IAA, PKS B11/05, B12/42, A07, pp.178,189 (Aug 1880, Aug 1885) |