Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILDARE, HARRISTOWN HOUSE (KILCULLEN)

Name: BAKER, HENRY AARON
Building: CO. KILDARE, HARRISTOWN HOUSE (KILCULLEN)
Date: 1809
Nature: Mausoleum, for John Latouche
Refs: Design exhibited Society of Artists of Ireland 1800, no. 180

Name: MCCURDY, JOHN
Building: CO. KILDARE, HARRISTOWN HOUSE (KILCULLEN)
Date: 1860;1864
Nature: Extensive alts., for John La Touche. Contractor: Beardwood.
Refs: DB 2, 1 Dec 1860, 380; Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (1997), 369

Name: MCCURDY, JOHN
Building: CO. KILDARE, HARRISTOWN HOUSE (KILCULLEN)
Date: 1864
Nature: Grand entrance and gate lodge in Byzantine style 'lately finished' for John La Touche. Local green stone with granite dressings and brick bands; ornamental slate roofs with turrets. Contractor: Joseph Lynch, Carlow.
Refs: DB 6, 1 Aug 1864, 153

Name: DAVIS, WHITMORE [2]
Building: CO. KILDARE, HARRISTOWN HOUSE (KILCULLEN)
Date: ?
Nature: New house, for John La Touche.
Refs: IB 22, 15 Jun 1880, 166; introduction by Knight of Glin to catalogue of Christie's sale at Charleville, 23-24 Jan 1978, citing list of houses 'chiefly built under his[Davis's] immediate direction' in Dublin Evening Post 1789; E.McParland, 'The papers of Bryan Bolger, measurer', Dublin Historical Record XXV, no. 4 (Sept. 1972), 124; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 149

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. KILDARE, HARRISTOWN HOUSE (KILCULLEN)
Date: ?
Nature: Restoration after fire of 1900ca, for John La Touche.
Refs: J.F. Fuller, 'Reminiscences of Fifty Years', IB Jubilee Number 1909, 25; J.F. Fuller, Omniana (1916), 184; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 149(illus.)