Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 045 (DONERAILE HOUSE)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: ENSOR, JOHN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 045 (DONERAILE HOUSE)
Date: 1748-53
Nature: JE paid for 'Directing & Drawing Different Designs for finishing the New House in Kildare Street' ?as per agreement of 25 Mar 1748. For Hon. Hayes St Leger (succ. as Viscount Doneraile, 1750).
Refs: 2 ground-floor plans of house as executed, probably by JE, in IAA, Guinness Collection, Acc. 96/068.4/4-5;  signed receipt dated 25 Jun 1753 among unsorted Doneraile MSS in NLI.

Name: CASTLE, RICHARD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 045 (DONERAILE HOUSE)
Date: 1752
Nature: Set of alternative plans for same for Hon. Hayes St Leger (succ. as 4th Viscount Doneraile, 1750).  (House built to designs by John Ensor, 1746-50.)
Refs: Unsigned and undated street elevation and floor plans in  IAA, Guinness Collection, Acc. 96/68.4/1-3; The Knight of Glin, 'Richard Castle, architect, his biography and works' in BIGS 7, no. 1 (Jan - Mar 1964), 32-38; David Griffin, 'Richard Castle's designs for Doneraile House, Kildare Street, Dublin' in Martello, Spring 1990, 1-6;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 530; 

Name: KELLY, JOHN [1]*
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 045 (DONERAILE HOUSE)
Date: 1753
Nature: Corninthian doorcase in rear ground-floor dining room.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 530.

Name: SHEEHAN, DAVID *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 045 (DONERAILE HOUSE)
Date: 1753
Nature: DS carver of Doric doorcase on Kildare St.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 530.