Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WICKLOW, CLONMANNON

Name: WILLS, MICHAEL
Building: CO. WICKLOW, CLONMANNON
Date: 1755?
Nature: 3-bay, 2-storey pedimented building which formed centrepiece of former Clonmannon House 'deserves consideration as a Wills design'. For MW's cousins the Truell family.
Refs: MS. cash book of Michael Wills, Acc. 81/88, 46,48 records payments to George Faulkner for 'advertising Clonmanen' (i.e. for tenders?); Christine Casey, '"De architectura": an Irish eighteenth-century gloss', Architectural History 37 (1994), 93(illus.)

Name: MCLEISH, ALEXANDER
Building: CO. WICKLOW, CLONMANNON
Date: ?
Nature: Cast-iron hothouses (the first in Ireland), for Rev. Dr. Truell.
Refs: E. Malins & P. Bowe, Irish Gardens & Demesnes from 1830 (1980), 19