Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, BALLYGIBLIN

Name: MORRISON, WILLIAM VITRUVIUS
Building: CO. CORK, BALLYGIBLIN
Date: 1837a
Nature: Remodelling in gabled Elizabethan style, for Sir William Wrixon-Becher, 1st Bt.
Refs: Plans in NLI, MS 4824; John Morrison, 'Life of the late William Vitruvius Morrison' in John Weale, ed., Quarterly Papers on Architecture I (1843-44), 6; A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 19-20(illus.); Anna-Maria Hajba, Houses of Cork I (2002), 52(illus.)

Name: ANDERSON, CHARLES FREDERICK
Building: CO. CORK, BALLYGIBLIN
Date: ?
Nature: CFA 'extensively employed' ante 1849 on estates of Sir William Wrixon Becher. (Sir William also had an estate at Creagh, near Skibbereen, Co. Cork.)
Refs: Daniel Wilson Randle, A Question of Style: the Architectural Compeitition for the Central Building for the University of the South (MA thesis, University of Texas, 1978), 243