Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, FARMLEIGH HOUSE (CASTLEKNOCK)

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, FARMLEIGH HOUSE (CASTLEKNOCK)
Date: 1874;1879-1884
Nature: Adds & alts., 1874, and under-gardener's lodge, &c., 1879-1880. Contractor: Thomas Millard. Alts. & adds., farm buildings, conservatory, Liffey Rd lodge, dairy &c. 1881-1884. Contractor: Henry Sharpe, Kells. For Edward Cecil Guinness.
Refs: Unsigned undated proposed elevation (presumably by Fuller) and basement plan in collection of Earl of Iveagh; IAA, PKS 0629, 0643, B06/35, B09/13, B10/09, B11/57, B12/01, A06 (Jul 1880, Mar, Sep, Dec 1881), A07, pp.128,153-4 (1883-84); DB 22, 1 Aug 1880, 224; Jeremy Musson, 'Farmleigh, Co. Dublin - I', Country Life, 2 Dec 1999, 92-99;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 297-8.

Name: MELLIER, CHARLES, & CO. *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, FARMLEIGH HOUSE (CASTLEKNOCK)
Date: 1892ca
Nature: Interior decoration, for Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Viscount Iveagh..
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 297-298.


Name: YOUNG, WILLIAM #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, FARMLEIGH HOUSE (CASTLEKNOCK)
Date: 1896-97;1901
Nature: Alts. & adds. (ballroom, 1897, & conservatory, 1901) for E.C. Guinness (cr. 1st Viscount Iveagh, 1891). Estimated cost: £9,619.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0763, B17/19, A07 (Aug 1896); Building News 73, 1 Oct 1897, 492; RIBAJ 8 (1901), 45;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 297-8.

Name: MACKENZIE & MONCUR *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, FARMLEIGH HOUSE (CASTLEKNOCK)
Date: 1901
Nature: Conservatory adjoining ballroom, for 1st Viscount Iveagh.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 298.