Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, ROSTREVOR, ROSS MONUMENT

Name: DUFF, THOMAS J. [1]
Building: CO. DOWN, ROSTREVOR, ROSS MONUMENT
Date: 1826
Nature: Execution of William Morrison's design supervised by TD, according to Dean. (Given to TD by |Archaeological Survey|.)
Refs: Archaeological Survey of Co. Down (1966), 435; J.A.K. Dean, The Gate Lodges of Ulster (UAHS, 1994), 303 (no.92)

Name: MORRISON, WILLIAM VITRUVIUS
Building: CO. DOWN, ROSTREVOR, ROSS MONUMENT
Date: 1826
Nature: Obelisk in memory of Maj. Gen. Robert Ross (d. 1814). For his widow, Elizabeth Catherine Ross. Tenders invited Jan 1821.
Refs: Microfilm of correspondence of Richard Morrison and others with Roger Hall about monument, 1815-18, in PRONI, MIC498/1;  extract from Newry Telegraph, 2 Jan 1821 (in Crossle MSS, NLI 2205); John Morrison, 'Life of the late William Vitruvius Morrison' in John Weale, ed., Quarterly Papers on Architecture I (1843-44), 7; A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 154(illus.),155