Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LAOIS, EMO COURT

Name: GANDON, JAMES
Building: CO. LAOIS, EMO COURT
Date: 1780
Nature: 3 designs for gates, probably for Emo.
Refs: Drawings, signed and dated 1780, in IAA, Emo Court Collection, 91/101.55-59; see E. McParland, James Gandon: Vitruvius Hibernicus (1985), refs. as in index; see also E.McParland, 'Emo Court, Co. Leix', Country Life 155, 23,30 May 1974, 1274-77,1346-49.

Name: GANDON, JAMES
Building: CO. LAOIS, EMO COURT
Date: 1790-96
Nature: New mansion for John Dawson, lst Earl of Portarlington (formerly 2nd Viscount Carlow).
Refs: Drawings by and attributed to Gandon in IAA, Emo Court Collection, 91/101.60-71,73; see E. McParland, James Gandon: Vitruvius Hibernicus (1985), refs. as in index; see also E.McParland, 'Emo Court, Co. Leix', Country Life 155, 23,30 May 1974, 1274-77,1346-49.; Mary Cecilia Lyons, Illustrated Incumbered Estates Ireland, 1850-1905 (1993), 23(illus.)

Name: WILLIAMSON, MATTHEW
Building: CO. LAOIS, EMO COURT
Date: 1812
Nature: Section of rotunda inscr. in a contemporary hand 'by M. Williamson 1812'.
Refs: Drawing in Emo Court collection (photograph in IAA).

Name: WILLIAMSON, ARTHUR
Building: CO. LAOIS, EMO COURT
Date: 1822-
Nature: Designs for works at same by A. & J. Williamson, including: north and south porticos, north front, drawing room ceiling, out-offices, ice-house, sluice..
Refs: Signed and dated drawings in IAA, Emo Court Collection, Acc. 91/101.41-52

Name: WILLIAMSON, JOHN [1]
Building: CO. LAOIS, EMO COURT
Date: 1822-
Nature: Designs for works at same by A. & J. Williamson, including: north and south porticos, north front, drawing room ceiling, out-offices, ice-house, sluice..
Refs: Signed and dated drawings in IAA, Emo Court Collection, Acc. 91/101.41-52

Name: VULLIAMY, LEWIS #
Building: CO. LAOIS, EMO COURT
Date: 1832-33
Nature: Alts. & adds. (kitchen wing, carriage gates, north front portico) for John Dawson, 2nd Earl of Portarlington.
Refs: Drawings (2 signed, 6 bearing office address and probably others) in IAA, Emo Court collection, Acc. 91/101; RA 1834, no. 913; E. McParland, 'Emo Court - II', 1846,1847(illus.)

Name: CALDBECK, WILLIAM FRANCIS
Building: CO. LAOIS, EMO COURT
Date: 1857-61
Nature: New wing. Builder: Thos. Connolly, Rathmines
Refs: DB 1, 1 Jun 1859, 75; 3, 15 Aug 1861, 605; M. Craig, 'The account-book of William Caldbeck, architect', Architectural History 27 (1984), 425

Name: PATTERSON, BENJAMIN THOMAS
Building: CO. LAOIS, EMO COURT
Date: 1889
Nature: BTP provides specifications for improvement of sanitary appliances and drains. For Viscount Carlow.
Refs: IAA, PKS B14/46

Name: SCOTT, MICHAEL JOHN
Building: CO. LAOIS, EMO COURT
Date: 1942
Nature: Refurbishment of chapel.
Refs: John O'Regan & Nicola Dearey, eds., Michael Scott Architect in (casual) conversation with Dorothy Walker (1995), 233

Name: GANDON, JAMES
Building: CO. LAOIS, EMO COURT
Date: ?
Nature: Design for rustic bridge attr. to JG.
Refs: Unsigned, undated design attr. to JG in IAA, Emo Court Collection, 91/101.74; see See E. McParland, James Gandon: Vitruvius Hibernicus (1985), refs. as in index; D.J. Griffin & S. Lincoln, Drawings from the Irish Architectural Archive (IAA, 1993), 39 (no. 12, illus.)

Name: SANDBY, THOMAS #
Building: CO. LAOIS, EMO COURT
Date: ?
Nature: Proposed design for gates (and house?)
Refs: E. McParland, 'Emo Court, Co. Leix', Country Life 155, 23 May 1974, 1277; E.Mc P files also have ref. to design for 'Lord Portarlington's house in Ireland' in Royal Collection, Windsor.

Name: SCOTT, MICHAEL JOHN
Building: CO. LAOIS, EMO COURT
Date: ?
Nature: Removal of old roof and insertion of long room behind parapet.Stabilizing of plaster ceiling.
Refs: E.McParland, 'Emo Court, Co. Leix', Country Life 155, 30 May 1974, 1346-49; John O'Regan & Nicola Dearey, eds., Michael Scott Architect in (casual) conversation with Dorothy Walker (1995), 110

Name: LOUCH, JOHN HOWARD
Building: CO. LAOIS, EMO COURT
Date: ?
Nature: Works at same, for Lord Portarlington.
Refs: 'Statement of the Louch family from their transplanting to Ireland in 17--' by Fitzgibbon Louch, Jun 1894 (copy in IAA)