Selected: CO. CORK, BLACKROCK CASTLE
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. CORK, BLACKROCK CASTLE |
Date: | 1720;1723 |
Nature: | 'Built [i.e. restored and remodelled?]' 1720 (Tuckey). Lead cupola proposed, 1723. (Castle became property of Cork Corporation in 1717.) |
Refs: | Francis H. Tuckey, The County and City of Cork Remembrancer (Cork, 1837), 127; R. Caulfield (ed.) The Council Book of the Corporation of the City of Cork (1876), 343,431 |
Name: | KENT, SOBER |
Building: | CO. CORK, BLACKROCK CASTLE |
Date: | 1773 |
Nature: | Minor repairs. |
Refs: | R. Caulfield (ed.) The Council Book of the Corporation of the City of Cork (1876), 882 |
Name: | PAIN, JAMES |
Building: | CO. CORK, BLACKROCK CASTLE |
Date: | 1828-29 |
Nature: | New castle built on foundations of Jacobean one. With G.R. Pain, for Cork Corporation. |
Refs: | Architects named in inscription on gate; Dublin Penny Journal I, 11 Aug 1832, 147; J. Windele, Historical and descriptive notices of the City of Cork (1849), ?; APSD VI, P, 6-7; D. Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (New York, 1983), I, 147-8; David Lee & Debbie Jacobs, James Pain, architect (Limerick Civic Trust, 2005), 191-195(illus.) |
Name: | HILL, HENRY |
Building: | CO. CORK, BLACKROCK CASTLE |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | 2 alternative schemes for adaptation to place of resort for Cork Corporation. |
Refs: | Unsigned, undated drawings (plans) in collection of Myrtle Allen, Ballymaloe, Co. Cork (photographed by IAA, neg. no. S/2312/2,14) |