Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LAOIS, SHAEN HOUSE

Name: BUTLER, WILLIAM DEANE
Building: CO. LAOIS, SHAEN HOUSE
Date: 1831
Nature: 'Design for Castle Shane in the Queen's Co., now erecting for Thomas Kemmis, Esq.' exh. RHA 1831.
Refs: RHA 1831, no. 243

Name: FARRELL, WILLIAM
Building: CO. LAOIS, SHAEN HOUSE
Date: ?
Nature: Drawings by WF for 'house for Thomas Kemmis', 5-bay, 2-storey, pedimented central bay (and 3-bay wings?)
Refs: Plans and elevations in William Farrell album, Houghton Library, Harvard University (ref: RAN 1/N/4) nos. 38-42; see John Harris, A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture and Landscape Gardening 1550-1900 in American Collections (1971), 96.