Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LOUTH, TOWNLEY HALL

Name: BALFOUR, BLAYNEY TOWNLEY
Building: CO. LOUTH, TOWNLEY HALL
Date: 1790-1794
Nature: Interested himself in design of house (by F.Johnston)
Refs: Frank Mitchell, 'The Evolution of Townley Hall', BIGS 30 (1987)

Name: PLAYFAIR, JAMES #
Building: CO. LOUTH, TOWNLEY HALL
Date: 1792
Nature: Unexecuted design for house prepared in Rome for Blayney Townley Balfour, Apr 1792.
Refs: Plans and sections in IAA, Townley Hall Collection, Acc. 85/156 (repr. D.J. Griffin and S. Lincoln, Drawings from the Irish Architectural Archive (1993), 40-41); drawings, one dated 13 Apr 1792, in NLI, Townley Hall papers, MS 9593; duplicate set in National Monuments Record Scotland, Edinburgh (with original sketch designs that JP made for Townley in Rome tipped in); E & W elevations in RIBA Drawings Collection (see Jill Lever, ed., Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects O-R (1974), 78); John Ingamells, ed., A Dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy 1701-1800 (1997), 44,775.

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. LOUTH, TOWNLEY HALL
Date: 1794-1802
Nature: New classical house, for Blayney Townley Balfour.
Refs: Elevation of principal front and plan and elevation of unexecuted entrance gates and railing, dated 1802, in IAA, Murray Collection, 1172,1173 (see Murray Collection catalogue, pp. 333-334); drawings by FJ dated 1794-1797 in IAA, Townley Hall Collection, Acc. 85/156;  elevation of gate lodge in NLI MS 46,593;  photostats of plans & estimates in NLI, AD 1951-2027; C. Hussey, 'Townley Hall', Country Life 104, 23,30 Jul 1948, 178-81,228-31'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 2; E. McParland, 'Francis Johnston, Architect', BIGS 12 , nos. 3 & 4 (Jul-Dec 1969), 64-73(illus.); Frank Mitchell, 'The evolution of Townley Hall', BIGS 30 (1987), 3-61; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 503-508 (Pls. 81,82)

Name: DARLEY, HUGH *
Building: CO. LOUTH, TOWNLEY HALL
Date: ?
Nature: HD had some connection with Townley Hall.
Refs: E.McP files, citing TCD MS 3771 (information given to him by R. Loeber)