Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, BROWNLOW HOUSE

Name: PLAYFAIR, WILLIAM HENRY #
Building: CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, BROWNLOW HOUSE
Date: 1833-1842
Nature: Elizabethan Revival house for Charles Brownlow, later 1st Baron Lurgan. (who had known Playfair as a student at Edinburgh). Built of Scotch freestone.  Builder: Charles MacGibbon, Edinburgh.
Refs: Drawings and other documentation re building of house in PRONI D1928/P/8/A1-286, D1928/W/5, VAL 1B/22B,p.62; drawings, letterbooks and letters in Edinburgh University Library; Country Life 149, 29 Apr 1971, 1038; Ian Gow, '"An Architect's Melancholy": furniture by W.H. Playfair for an Irish House', Irish Arts Review 14 (1998), 58; C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of Co. Armagh (1999), 100-102(illus.);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 435-438, Pl. 93.

Name: YOUNG & MACKENZIE
Building: CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, BROWNLOW HOUSE
Date: 1868-1870;1872
Nature: Roof & chimney repairs, works (sewers?) at stable and bachelor wing, alsowall & railing at church wall, imps. to Mr Well's cottage
Refs: PRONI D.2194/2/1

Name: LYNN, SAMUEL FERRES *
Building: CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, BROWNLOW HOUSE
Date: 1871
Nature: Statue of Master McGrath, Lord Lurgan's greyhound, erected in demesne. Pedestal with sculptured groups on all 4 sides representing principal events of dog's life. (Statue stolen ; pedestal taken to Philip Bell's garden at Solitude, Lurgan)
Refs: IB 13, 15 Nov 1871, 300; RA 1875, no. 1388