Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KERRY, KILLARNEY, KILLARNEY HOUSE

Name: DEVEY, GEORGE #
Building: CO. KERRY, KILLARNEY, KILLARNEY HOUSE
Date: 1877-78
Nature: New house on site of earlier building, for 4th Earl of Kenmare. Work 'seems to have been carried out by W.H. Lynn'. Destroyed by fire, 1913.
Refs: Preliminary designs & contract & detail drawings for a new mansion house & chapel, preliminary drawings for a lodge, fishing pavilion, entrance gateway & presbyter's housee, 1877-83, in Victoria & Albert Museum, RIBA Drawings Collection, PB812/DEV[74](1-57), see British Architectural Library Catalogue,  http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/iGVRGH9SKz/MAIN_CAT/4480107/13 (last visited apr 2009); 46th Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1877), 15; IB 20, 15 Aug 1878, 235; 61, 27 Sep 1919, 433-434; M. Bence-Jones, '"A suitably Celtic twilight"', Country Life, 23 May 1974, 1262-1264(illus.)

Name: LYNN, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. KERRY, KILLARNEY, KILLARNEY HOUSE
Date: 1877-78
Nature: For 4th Earl of Kenmare. Devey's design 'seems to have been carried out by W.H. Lynn'.
Refs: Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 162

Name: WORNELL, JOHN #
Building: CO. KERRY, KILLARNEY, KILLARNEY HOUSE
Date: 1910
Nature: 2 gate lodges to be built for 5th Earl of Kenmare 'from the designs of Mr. J. Wornell, architect, London'.. Tender of Hearne & Sons, Waterford accepted.
Refs: IB 52, 11 Jun 1910, 378

Name: WRATTEN & GODFREY #
Building: CO. KERRY, KILLARNEY, KILLARNEY HOUSE
Date: 1910ca
Nature: Proposed alterations, for 5th Earl of Kenmare.
Refs: Drawings in Victoria & Albert Museum, RIBA Drawings Collection, see British Architectural Library Catalogue, http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/H8yt0UAeFU/MAIN_CAT/181820013/13 (last visited Apr 2009).