Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MONAGHAN, ROSSMORE PARK

Name: MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR)
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, ROSSMORE PARK
Date: 1824
Nature: Proposed rebuilding and gate lodge for Warner William Westenra, 2nd Baron Rossmore.
Refs: A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 149-53(illus.);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 482-484.

Name: MORRISON, WILLIAM VITRUVIUS
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, ROSSMORE PARK
Date: 1829a-1830
Nature: Remodelling for Warner William Westenra, 2nd Baron Rossmore. Plasterwork by Francis Donnelly, Monaghan.
Refs: 3 designs in  PRONI (photographs in IAA box files, 7/71 R1, R7,R14;  originals stated wrongly to have been destroyed by fire in Rowan, op. cit., below, 152);  letters to 2nd and 3rd Barons Rossmore, 1820-1857, in PRONI, Rossmore Papers, T2929/24A (see PRONI e-catalogue);  A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 149-53(illus.) ;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 482-484.

Name: BUTLER, WILLIAM DEANE
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, ROSSMORE PARK
Date: 1854
Nature: Designs for remodelling, for Lord Rossmore.  (According to Rowan, these designs were unexecuted, but Mulligan suggests that they were.)
Refs: Drawings among Rossmore MSS, PRONI, T.2929 (photographs in IAA box files);  A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 152;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 483.

Name: LANYON & LYNN
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, ROSSMORE PARK
Date: 1858
Nature: Remodelling, for Henry Robert, 3rd Baron Rossmore. Contractors: James Connor, Henry McLaughlin & William Harvey. To cost: £5,945.5s.
Refs: Contract drawings, dated 9 Jan 1858, among Rossmore MSS, PRONI T.2929);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 483.