Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, ROSTELLAN CASTLE

Name: NOST, JOHN (VAN) [2]*
Building: CO. CORK, ROSTELLAN CASTLE
Date: 1766
Nature: 'Mr Van Nost has now finished a very grand statue of Sir Edward Hawke, at the command and the sole expense of the Earl of Inchiquin, to be erected at his lordship's seat in the harbor of Cork.'
Refs: Faulkner's Duiblin Journal, 26-29 Jul 1766

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, ROSTELLAN CASTLE
Date: 1776a
Nature: 'The view [over Cork harbour] is seen in great perfection from the windos of two very good rooms, 25 by 35, which his Lordship [William, 4th Earl of Inchiquin] has built in addition to the old castle.' (Arthur Young, 21 Sep 1776)
Refs: Arthur Young, Tour in Ireland (Dublin, 1780), 64; Mary Cecilia Lyons, Illustrated Incumbered Estates Ireland, 1850-1905 (1993), 197(illus.)

Name: MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR)
Building: CO. CORK, ROSTELLAN CASTLE
Date: 1835a
Nature: Proposed Gothicization, for 2nd Marquess of Thomond. 'But he tired of the expense and stopped short, after very little was done except to a wing, which contains the offices andwhich has been finished off to have something like the appearance of a chapel' (Graham)
Refs: NLI, MS. 1657; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 248(illus.); Henry Heaney, ed., A Scottish Whig in Ireland, 1835-1838: the Irish Journals of Robert Graham of Redgorton (Dublin, 1999), 155;

Name: MCNAB, -
Building: CO. CORK, ROSTELLAN CASTLE
Date: 1835ca
Nature: In charge of park and estate, for 2nd Marquess of Thomond.
Refs: Henry Heaney, ed., A Scottish Whig in Ireland, 1835-1838: the Irish Journals of Robert Graham of Redgorton (Dublin, 1999), 155-6

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, ROSTELLAN CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: 'Close to the sea is a tower, said to have been erected to commemorate a visit to this seat by the celebrated Siddons.' For 1st Marquess of Thomond (d.1808)
Refs: J.B. Burke, Vistiation of Seats and Arms (2nd ser., 1855), II, 30; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 248