Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, MITCHELSTOWN CASTLE

Name: PAIN, JAMES
Building: CO. CORK, MITCHELSTOWN CASTLE
Date: 1823-25
Nature: New Gothic castle (incorporating 18th cent. house) for Earl of Kingston. Said by Pückler-Muskau (who thought it in bad taste) to have cost £50,000 and by Lewis £100,000. With G.R. Pain. (Burnt out, 1922; ruin almost completely demolished.)
Refs: Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau, Tour in England, Ireland, and France: in the years 1828, and 1829 (1832), II, 21-2; Dublin Penny Journal 2, 22 Mar 1834, 300(illus.); J.P. Neale, Views of Seats VIII (2nd series. II, 1825), nos. 58 & 59; Dublin Penny Journal 2, 22 Mar 1834, 300; APSD VI, P,6-7; Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 373; Mark Bence-Jones, 'A Vanished Gothic Castle in Ireland', Country Life 133, 18 Apr 1963, 841; D. Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (New York, 1983), I, 147; David Lee, 'James and George Pain - Gothic Architects' in David Lee & Christine Gonzalez, eds., Georgian Limerick 1714-1845, II (Limerick Civic Trust, 2000), 239-145(illus.); F. O'Dwyer, '"A Noble Pile in the late Tudor Style": Mitchelstown Castle', Irish Arts Review 18 (2002), 31-43; David Lee & Debbie Jacobs, James Pain, architect (Limerick Civic Trust, 2005), 115-117(illus.)

Name: WEBB, JOHN #
Building: CO. CORK, MITCHELSTOWN CASTLE
Date: 1823p?
Nature: Design of grounds (for George, 3rd Earl of Kingston?). 'It [Mitchelstown Castle] stands…on the bare turf, without the lightest picturesque break, which castles in the Gothic or kindred styles peculiarly need; and the inconsiderable park possessed neither a handsome group of trees nor a prospect worth describing.'(Pückler Muskau)
Refs: Keith Lamb & Patrick Bowe, A History of Gardening in Ireland (National Botanic Gardens, 1995), 40 (citing NLI MS 3275); Tour by a German Prince (1832), II, 22).

Name: ANDERSON, CHARLES FREDERICK
Building: CO. CORK, MITCHELSTOWN CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: CFA employed as architect and chief engineer of estates of Earl of Kingston and 'built a great deal for him'.
Refs: Daniel Wilson Randle, A Question of Style: the Architectural Compeitition for the Central Building for the University of the South (MA thesis, University of Texas, 1978), 242

Name: SUTHERLAND, JOHN
Building: CO. CORK, MITCHELSTOWN CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: JS advises Dowager Countess of Kingstown on improvements to park.
Refs: Keith Lamb & Patrick Bowe, A History of Gardening in Ireland (National Botanic Gardens, 1995), 48