Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MAYO, CASTLEMACGARRETT (CLAREMORRIS)

Name: FAHY (OR FAY), OWEN
Building: CO. MAYO, CASTLEMACGARRETT (CLAREMORRIS)
Date: 1811p
Nature: Unexecuted Gothic designs for same signed by OF (but really by Richard Morrison?) for Dominick Browne, 1st Baron Oranmore & Browne
Refs: Signed, undated elevations in collection of Hon. Garrett Browne, Luggala, Co. Wicklow (one repr. in R. MacDonnell, The Lost Houses of Ireland (2002), 51, who attributes it to Morrison); Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 72.

Name: MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR)
Building: CO. MAYO, CASTLEMACGARRETT (CLAREMORRIS)
Date: 1811P
Nature: Unexecuted Gothic designs for same signed by Owen Fahy (but really by Richard Morrison?) for Dominick Browne, 1st Baron Oranmore & Browne
Refs: Undated elevations signed by OF in collection of Hon. Garrett Browne, Luggala, Co. Wicklow (one repr. in R. MacDonnell, The Lost Houses of Ireland (2002), 51, who attributes it to Morrison), 50,51(illus.)

Name: ORPEN, RICHARD FRANCIS CAULFEILD
Building: CO. MAYO, CASTLEMACGARRETT (CLAREMORRIS)
Date: 1906-07
Nature: Remodelling, for Lord Oranmore & Browne. Contractor: William Beckett, Percy Pl, Dublin. Clerk of works for building of first section: Charles Goodwin. Heating and plumbing by Maguire & Gatchell.
Refs: Design exh. RHA 1909, no. 299 ?and Irish International Exhibition, Dublin, 1907, No. 381 ('Design for a residence, Co. Mayo'); IB 48, 24 Mar 1906, 239; 49, 6 Apr 1907, 254; 51, 23 Jan 1909, 37,41(illus.; another illus. in supplement)

Name: MURPHY, THOMAS
Building: CO. MAYO, CASTLEMACGARRETT (CLAREMORRIS)
Date: ?
Nature: TM works for Dominick Browne (cr. Baron Oranmore & Browne, 1836) at same before 1837.
Refs: Letter from Thomas Murphy to Martin Blake, MP, Brooklodge, Galway, 26 Aug 1837, in NA, Blake of Ballyglunin papers M6936/38/293 (information from Kevin Mulligan).