Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ARMAGH, TANDRAGEE CASTLE

Name: FARRELL, ISAAC
Building: CO. ARMAGH, TANDRAGEE CASTLE
Date: 1830-1838
Nature: Baronial residence for Viscount Mandeville, eldest son of Duke of Manchester; contains large handsome chapel.
Refs: Draft memoir by J. Hill Williams, Jan 1838, in Angélique Day & Patrick McWilliams, Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol. 1: Parishes of Co. Armagh, 1835-9, 3; Jones files citing unnamed guide book of the 1840s (J.P. Lawson, Gazetteer of Ireland (1842), 756, gives information but does not name architect);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 542-544.


Name: SEAVER, HENRY
Building: CO. ARMAGH, TANDRAGEE CASTLE
Date: 1922a
Nature: HS said to have 'waved his Prospero's wand' over Tandragee Castle.
Refs: Reports on castle by HS, 1912-14, in PRONI, D2223/15/37 (see PRONI e-catalogue); IB 64, 2 Dec 1922, 809

Name: COLLMANN, LEONARD WILLIAM #
Building: CO. ARMAGH, TANDRAGEE CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: Design for decoration of ceiling.
Refs: V & A drawings collection, Q.11.A;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 543.

Name: GABRIELLI, GASPARE *#
Building: CO. ARMAGH, TANDRAGEE CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: Decoration of room with views of Herculaneum for William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester probably at some point between 1808 and 1814. House demolished 1836.
Refs: Patricia Cashen, 'Valentine Lord Cloncurry and his collection at Lyons House', unpublished M.A. thesis, Department of the History of Art, University College, Dublin, 1986, 99

Name: MILLAR, JOHN
Building: CO. ARMAGH, TANDRAGEE CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: Proposed additions in Renaissance style for Duke of Manchester.
Refs: C.E. B. Brett, 'Brett on John Millar, Architect, of Belfast', Ulster Architect, Sep/Oct 1994, 6;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 543.