Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KERRY, KENMARE HOUSE

Name: KENMARE, VALENTINE BROWNE, 3RD VISCOUNT
Building: CO. KERRY, KENMARE HOUSE
Date: 1726ca
Nature: 13-bay, 2-storey house with high pitched roof designed by 3rd Viscount Kenmare, built from local materials using labour from the estate.
Refs: Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 162(illus.)

Name: SHEEHAN, DAVID *
Building: CO. KERRY, KENMARE HOUSE
Date: 1754
Nature: 'most magnificent and superb chimney piece of white Italian marble..now finished for that most excellent young Nobleman Lord Kenmare, to be erected at his seat in the county of Kerry,...from the Design of Inigo Jones...the carving by the great Mr Houghton'
Refs: Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 19-22 Jan 1754

Name: HUNT, THOMAS FREDERICK #
Building: CO. KERRY, KENMARE HOUSE
Date: 1834
Nature: Drenagh Lodge design shown in Hunt's Half-a-dozen Hints on Picturesque Domestic Architecture in a series of designs for Gate Lodges, Gamekeepers' Cottages, and other rural residences (1825), Plate 2. Datestone on porch. For 2nd Earl of Kenmare.
Refs: Information from J.A.K. Dean

Name: HANSOM, CHARLES FRANCIS #
Building: CO. KERRY, KENMARE HOUSE
Date: 1858
Nature: Private chapel for Lord Castlerosse.
Refs: B 16, 2 Oct 1858, 665