Selected: CO. LIMERICK, ASH HILL TOWERS (KILMALLOCK)
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, ASH HILL TOWERS (KILMALLOCK) |
Date: | 1781 |
Nature: | Old mansion taken down. New house built 1781. |
Refs: | J.B. Burke, A Visitation of the seats and arms of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland (2nd ser., 1855), 231 |
Name: | ANDERSON, CHARLES FREDERICK |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, ASH HILL TOWERS (KILMALLOCK) |
Date: | 1830? |
Nature: | CFA directs rebuilding of 18th century house in castellated form for Eyre Evans; 'a large castellated mansion now in progress of erection in the ancient baronial style, consisting of a centre flanked by lofty circular towers and two extensive wings, of which one on the west is connected with a noble gateway leading to the offices, which orrupy the sides of a quadrangualr area; the whole is of hewn limestone…' (Lewis). |
Refs: | List of works in undated engraved 'Architectural Circular' of CFA; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 13(illus.); Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 172-3; J.B. Burke, A Visitation of the seats and arms of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland (2nd ser., 1855), I, 231 (gives date as 1830); Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 13 (illus.) (gives date as 1833). |
Name: | PAIN, JAMES |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, ASH HILL TOWERS (KILMALLOCK) |
Date: | 1837ca |
Nature: | Castellation and Gothicization of house of 1781 for Eyre Evans; 'probably' by Pain brothers. |
Refs: | North Munster Antiquarian Journal (1949), 18; Maurice Craig & the Knight of Glin, Ireland Observed (1970), 12; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 13 (illus.) (gives date as 1833). |