Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WATERFORD, PORTLAW, CLODIAGH

Name: MULVANY, JOHN SKIPTON
Building: CO. WATERFORD, PORTLAW, CLODIAGH
Date: 1861-1863
Nature: Tenders invited for erecting same, Mar 1861;  Design for mansion 'now erecting' for Frederick Malcomson, Esq. exh. RHA 1862. Cost: £7,900. Decoration: Sibthorpe. Design for conservatory & hothouse 'to be erected' exh. RHA 1864. Fine Grecian mansion with extensive and elegant conservatory completed 1864. Builder: Cockburn, Gt. Brunswick St.
Refs: Irish Times, 11 Mar 1861;   IAA, PKS B02/15, A03 (Mar 1861, p.40v), L1 (pp.99-102,105,108,114,120,473 &c.); DB 3, 15 May 1861, 519; 4, 15 Jul 1862, 175; 6, 15 Mar 1864, 44;  RHA 1862, no. 454; 1864, no. 410; Frederick O'Dwyer, 'The architecture of John Skipton Mulvany', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 3 (2000), 61,Pl.59