Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILDARE, LYONS

Name: GRACE, OLIVER
Building: CO. KILDARE, LYONS
Date: 1797?
Nature: New house 'erected after designs by Mr. Grace'.(Brewer)
Refs: J.N. Brewer, The Beauties of Ireland (1825 & 1826), II, ?; Georgian Society Records V (1913), 93

Name: LAING, DAVID #
Building: CO. KILDARE, LYONS
Date: 1800
Nature: Proposed design for new house, probably Lyons, for 'a nobleman', probably 2nd Baron Cloncurry, who was a subscriber to Laing's Hints for Dwellings;  '...a neo-classical version of the "Villa Rotonda"' (Colvin).
Refs: Plan and elvation of house for a nobleman 'intended to be built' on the banks of the Liffey in Co. Kildare published in Hints for Dwellings (1800), pls. 29,30;  Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 626n.

Name: MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR)
Building: CO. KILDARE, LYONS
Date: 1802-1805
Nature: Classical adds. & alts., for Valentine Browne Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry.
Refs: E. McParland, 'Building in the grand manner', Country Life 153, 31 May 1973, 1538-1541(illus.); A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 120-122(illus.)

Name: GABRIELLI, GASPARE *#
Building: CO. KILDARE, LYONS
Date: 1805-1808
Nature: Decoration of hall, music room, dining room and drawing room for Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry.
Refs: J. P. Neale, Views of Seats (2nd ser.), II (VIII) (1825), no. 61; J.B. Burke, Visitation of Seats and Arms (2nd ser., 1855), I, 81-2; June Eiffe, 'Lyons, Co. Kildare', Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society 27 (1984), 20-23 (illustrated with colour plates of the drawing room murals); see also Patricia Cashen, 'Valentine Lord Cloncurry and his collection at Lyons House', unpublished M.A. thesis, Department of the History of Art, University College, Dublin, 1986, Chapter 2.

Name: BUTLER, WILLIAM DEANE
Building: CO. KILDARE, LYONS
Date: 1845
Nature: Proposed piazza, terrace, portico
Refs: Signed & dated drawings for piazza and terrace and undated elevation of proposed portico in NLI, A.D. 2060-2062

Name: SMYTH, EDWARD *
Building: CO. KILDARE, LYONS
Date: ?
Nature: 'At each side of the portico are lions in Irish granite, by Smyth.' (Burke) These were probably made for 2nd Baron Cloncurry and could be by either Edward Smyth or his son John Smyth.
Refs: J.B. Burke, Visitation of Seats and Arms (2nd ser., 1855), I, 81-2

Name: ACQUISTI, LUIGI *#
Building: CO. KILDARE, LYONS
Date: ?
Nature: Bas-reliefs of the story of Daedalus over dining-room doors.
Refs: J.B. Burke, Visitation of Seats and Arms (2nd ser., 1855), I, 81-2