Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MONAGHAN, DAWSON GROVE

Name: WYATT, JAMES #
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, DAWSON GROVE
Date: 1770
Nature: Mausoleum to Lady Anne Dawson for Thomas Dawson, lst Viscount Cremorne, attr. to JW.
Refs: Unsigned drawings in IAA, Murray Collection, nos. 296-299 (see B. Goslin, 'History and descriptive catalogue of the Murray Collection', MA thesis submitted to NUI, Jan 1990, 121-122); The Architecture of Ireland in drawings & paintings(NGI, 1975), no. 15; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 1189;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 312, Pl.51.

Name: TAYLOR, ROBERT (SIR) #
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, DAWSON GROVE
Date: 1770ca
Nature: New 7-bay 3-storey house for 1st Baron Dartrey attr. to RT by John Harris but  not listed among attributions to Taylor in Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008)
Refs: IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44, citing letter from John Harris

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, DAWSON GROVE
Date: 1803
Nature: FJ consulted about improvements to same by Lady Anne Dawson.
Refs: Frank Mitchell, 'The evolution of Townley Hall', BIGS 30 (1987), 18

Name: WYATT, JAMES #
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, DAWSON GROVE
Date: 1807p
Nature: Doric column commemorating Richard Dawson (d. 1807), MP for Monaghan,erected by electorate;  'attributed to James Wyatt' (Mulligan).
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 314; Pl.50.