Selected: CO. MEATH, SUMMERHILL
Name: | PEARCE, EDWARD LOVETT (SIR) |
Building: | CO. MEATH, SUMMERHILL |
Date: | 1730ca |
Nature: | Probably designed by ELP and completed by Richard Castle. For Hercules Langford Rowley. |
Refs: | Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 491; listed as 'less than completely authenticated' work by Maurice Craig, 'The quest for Sir Edward Lovett Pearce', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 12 (1996), 34 |
Name: | CASTLE, RICHARD |
Building: | CO. MEATH, SUMMERHILL |
Date: | 1731 |
Nature: | New house, probably designed by Sir Edward Lovett Pearce, completed by RC. For Hercules Rowley, M.P. (Burnt out, 4 Feb 1921, and demolished 1959.) |
Refs: | The Knight of Glin, 'Richard Castle, architect, his biography and works' in BIGS 7, no. 1 (Jan-Mar 1964), 32-38; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 491-2; Mary Cecilia Lyons, Illustrated Incumbered Estates Ireland, 1850-1905 (1993), 20 (illus.) |
Name: | PEARCE, EDWARD LOVETT (SIR) |
Building: | CO. MEATH, SUMMERHILL |
Date: | 1731 |
Nature: | Probably in collaboration with Castle. For Hercules Rowley, M.P. |
Refs: | The Knight of Glin, 'Richard Castle, architect, his biography and works' in BIGS 7, no. 1 (Jan - Mar 1964), 32-38; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 491-2 |
Name: | MCCURDY, JOHN |
Building: | CO. MEATH, SUMMERHILL |
Date: | 1869-70 |
Nature: | Restoration of house burned in 1798 Rebellion, for 4th Baron Langford. Contractor: S.H. Bolton. |
Refs: | Drawings, &c., 1869, in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, Bin VII, Rolls 38a-d; IB 12, 1 Mar 1870, 57; Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (Cork University Press, 1997), 407 |
Name: | ORPEN, RICHARD FRANCIS CAULFEILD |
Building: | CO. MEATH, SUMMERHILL |
Date: | 1921 |
Nature: | Proposed rebuilding, for Col. William Rowley. Estimated sum £72,540. Not executed. |
Refs: | Mark Bence Jones, Twilight of the Ascendacy (1987), 237-8 |
Name: | LAFRANCHINI, PAOLO * |
Building: | CO. MEATH, SUMMERHILL |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | 2 ceilings attr. to Paolo and Filippo Lafranchini by McDonnell. |
Refs: | Joseph McDonnell, Irish Eighteenth-Century Stuccowork and its European sources (National Gallery of Ireland, 1991), 18, Pls. 38-39 |
Name: | ADAM, ROBERT # |
Building: | CO. MEATH, SUMMERHILL |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Proposed alts. |
Refs: | Drawing in Soane Museum, Adam vol. 50 (no. 90) (photocopies in IAA, RP.B.50.5) |