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) |