Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KERRY, MILLTOWN, MILTOWN HOUSE

Name: MORRISON, WILLIAM VITRUVIUS
Building: CO. KERRY, MILLTOWN, MILTOWN HOUSE
Date: 1819
Nature: Proposed Elizabethan-style remodelling, for Sir John Godfrey, 2nd Bt. Only partly carried out. Letter from Richard Morrison's lawyers, Robert Reeves & Son, to Godfrey, 25 Feb 1823, requests payment of his account 'for building your House and Offices'; forwarding this to his lawyer, Matthew Franks, 28 Feb 1823, Godfrey complains, 'Never have I got so little value for my money...'. 
Refs: Drawings, inscr. Richd & Willm Morrison, in collection of Mrs Valerie Bary, Milltown (2011), but attributed to William Morrison only  by J.P. Neale,Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland (London, 1818-23), Vol. 3, No. 69; letter from John Godfrey to Matthew Franks in UCD Archives Department, S6/22/193(129 & 130);  DB 1, 1 Jun 1859, 73;  A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 123-125(illus.).