Selected: CO. LIMERICK, MOUNT SHANNON
Name: | WYATT, LEWIS WILLIAM # |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, MOUNT SHANNON |
Date: | 1813 |
Nature: | Alts. including addition of portico, perhaps carried out by James Pain. For John Fitzgibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare. |
Refs: | Perspective view, signed and dated May 1813, in posession of Constantine FitzGibbon, 1976; see Constantine FitzGibbon, 'The Mount Shannon Catalogue, 1888', BIGS 19 (Nos. 1 & 2, Jan-Jun 1976), 14,18(illus.); Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 216(illus.). |
Name: | SUTHERLAND, JOHN |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, MOUNT SHANNON |
Date: | 1826a |
Nature: | Plans for approach to house , incomplete at time of JS's death. |
Refs: | E. Malins & the Knight of Glin, Lost Demesnes: Irish landscape gardening, 1660-1845 (1976), 74; Keith Lamb & Patrick Bowe, A History of Gardening in Ireland (National Botanic Gardens, 1995), 48 |
Name: | MCCONNELL, JAMES EDWARD # |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, MOUNT SHANNON |
Date: | 1840ca |
Nature: | JEM, on behalf of Vernon & Co, Liverpool, 'superintended the erection of several horticultural buildings, and a great deal of machinery, for the late Earl of Clare at Mountshannon.' |
Refs: | Min.Proc.Inst.CE 74 (1882-83), Pt. 4, pp. 285-6 |
Name: | PAIN, JAMES |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, MOUNT SHANNON |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Work for 2nd Earl of Clare, either supervising remodelling to designs of Lewis Wyatt or carrying out subsequent alts. |
Refs: | NLI MS. 1757 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc. 2008/44); Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 216(illus.); David Lee & Debbie Jacobs, James Pain, architect (Limerick Civic Trust, 2005), 31-32(illus.) |
Name: | WOODGATE, ROBERT |
Building: | CO. LIMERICK, MOUNT SHANNON |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Visits same. |
Refs: | E.McP files, citing PRONI Mic 18, Reel 7 |