Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MONAGHAN, CASTLE LESLIE (GLASLOUGH)

Name: NIVEN, NINIAN
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, CASTLE LESLIE (GLASLOUGH)
Date: 1843;1854
Nature: Designs for kitchen and fruit garden for Charles Powell Leslie III 1843 (unexecuted), and designs for pinetum and for conservatory in kitchen garden, 1854.
Refs: Leslie MSS (PRONI microfilm MIC.606/G/2/4,2/5,2/6)

Name: JONES, ALFRED GRESHAM
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, CASTLE LESLIE (GLASLOUGH)
Date: 1854
Nature: Proposed castellated entrance complex.
Refs: Signed and dated design (also signed by Ninian Niven) in collection of Leslie family (PRONI microfilm MIC.606/G/4/3), cited by J.A.K.. Dean, The Gate Lodges of Ulster (UAHS, 1994), 125(illus.)

Name: LANYON & LYNN
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, CASTLE LESLIE (GLASLOUGH)
Date: 1859
Nature: Proposed new baronial mansion (exh. (as 'Glasslough Castle') at RHA 1864 under name of Charles Lanyon, 1864). For Colonel John Leslie.
Refs: Plans & elevations in collection of Leslie family (photographs in IAA; PRONI microfilm MIC.606/G/2/4/3A); perspective view by W.H. Lynn in Ulster Museum, no. 1085, see H. Dixon, William Henry Lynn (Ulster Museum, 1878), no. 11; RHA 1864, no. 406; IB 16, 15 Jan 1874, 17; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 71(illus.);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 339,  Pl.100.

Name: HOWE, JAMES #
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, CASTLE LESLIE (GLASLOUGH)
Date: 1866
Nature: Garden improvements, for Col Charles Leslie.
Refs: Leslie MSS (PRONI microfilm MIC.606/G/2/6A); Keith Lamb & Patrick Bowe, A History of gardening in Ireland (1995), 128

Name: LYNN, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, CASTLE LESLIE (GLASLOUGH)
Date: 1872-1879
Nature: Designed by WHL for Sir John Leslie, 1st Bt.. Contractor: James Henry, Belfast (£19,043). Also designed gate lodges.
Refs: Drawings, contract and accounts in collection of Leslie family (photographs in IAA; PRONI microfilms MIC 606/G/4/4, G/4/5 and 606/K/1/3, K/1/7, K/3/8);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 339-343.

Name: LESLIE, JOHN (SIR)
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, CASTLE LESLIE (GLASLOUGH)
Date: 1874p
Nature: Decorated walls of Long Gallery with his allegorical paintings.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 342.

Name: NASH, JOHN
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, CASTLE LESLIE (GLASLOUGH)
Date: ?
Nature: Gateway and lodge 'considered to have been designed by Nash'.(Mansbridge).  According to Mulligan, both cottage orné gate lodge and Gothic gate lodge are by JN.  fOR cHARLES pOWELL lESLIE.
Refs: Michael Mansbridge, John Nash (1991), 314(illus.);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 342-3.

Name: SHEKLETON, ALEXANDER & JAMES *
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, CASTLE LESLIE (GLASLOUGH)
Date: ?
Nature: Cast iron entrance gates at Cottage Orné gate lodge and Gothic gate lodge.   For Charles Powell Leslie.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 342,343.