Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. GALWAY, SPIDDAL HOUSE

Name: SCOTT, WILLIAM ALPHONSUS
Building: CO. GALWAY, SPIDDAL HOUSE
Date: 1908-09
Nature: Alts & extension, including open loggias and tower, for 2nd Baron Killanin. New entrance gateway and lodge, 1908. contractor: O'Flaherty & Son, Galway. (Burned down, May 1923.)
Refs: Drawings, 1908, in W.H. Byrne drawings collection; RHA 1909, nos. 291,298; IB 50, 27 Jun 1908, 405; 57, 24 Jul 1909, 469; 52, 6 Aug 1910, [illus. in suppl.]; Tuam Herald, 28 Oct 1922, 5 May 1923;  Paul Larmour, '"The Drunken Man of Genius": William A. Scott (1871-1921)', Irish Architectural Review 3 (2001), 36(illus.)

Name: BYRNE, RALPH HENRY
Building: CO. GALWAY, SPIDDAL HOUSE
Date: 1928-30;1939-40
Nature: Alterations to house originally designed by W.A. Scott; additional wing
Refs: Designs, dated 1928-30,1939-40, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142