Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. SLIGO, MARKREE CASTLE

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. SLIGO, MARKREE CASTLE
Date: 1802-05
Nature: Gothicization and enlargement, for Joshua Edward Cooper. Also Gothic gateway.
Refs: Drawings, two dated 1802 and 1803, in IAA, Murray Collection, nos. 943-950 (see Murray Collection catalogue, pp. 283-4); 'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 4;

Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 164a (note 26)

 

Name: GOODWIN, FRANCIS #
Building: CO. SLIGO, MARKREE CASTLE
Date: 1832
Nature: Gothic gate lodge on Dublin road, for Edward Joshua Cooper, M.P.
Refs: 2 elevations of lodge from road and from park (former as engraved in Goodwin's Domestic Architecture Vol. I (1833), design no. 14) sold Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 12 Jun 1980 (Lot 128); drawings for Markree Castle (including ones by FG?) in possession of present owners

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. SLIGO, MARKREE CASTLE
Date: 1832
Nature: Observatory, for Edward Joshua Cooper
Refs: Terence O'Rorke, History of Sligo (1889), 352.

Name: MACDOWELL, PATRICK *
Building: CO. SLIGO, MARKREE CASTLE
Date: 1834
Nature: Marble group of Procris and Cephalus, for Captain Cooper.
Refs: W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II, 62

Name: ATKINSON, THOMAS WITLAM #
Building: CO. SLIGO, MARKREE CASTLE
Date: 1838ca
Nature: Proposed alterations? For Edward Joshua Cooper.
Refs: Undated sheet of rough sketches, possibly for proposed alterations, in Victoria & Albert Museum, RIBA Drawings Collection, SB66/2, see Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects A (1968), 39, and British Architectural Library Catalogue, http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/1Huer6Lx38/MAIN_CAT/158920097/13 (last visited May 2009).

Name: GWILT, JOSEPH #
Building: CO. SLIGO, MARKREE CASTLE
Date: 1841-3
Nature: Adds. including interiors of drawing room, boudoir, ante-room and chapel executed in carton pierre by Wallet & Hubert, Paris. With his son John Sebastian Gwilt, for E.J. Cooper. ('Beautiful and costly' fittings of chapel presented to diocese by the Misses Cooper in 1882. To be installed in synod hall.)
Refs: Drawings dated 1842 in RIBA drawings collection, see Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects G-K (1973), 78, no. 18; design 'as now completing' exh. by J.S. Gwilt at RA, 1843, no. 1214;  Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette 24, no. 145, 7 Oct 1882, 708.
p.708!

Name: BENSON, JOHN (SIR)
Building: CO. SLIGO, MARKREE CASTLE
Date: 1843?
Nature: Superintends works.  For Edward Joshua Cooper.
Refs: Terence O'Rorke, History of Sligo (1889), 531

Name: WARDROP, JAMES MAITLAND #
Building: CO. SLIGO, MARKREE CASTLE
Date: 1866
Nature: 'Extensive' works for Edward Henry Cooper in progress.  (According to O'Rorke, EHC 'encompassed it with battlemented walls' giving it the 'apperance of a fortress quite as much as a private mansion'.)
Refs: DB 8, 15 Aug 1866, 209;  Terence O'Rorke, History of the parishes of Ballysadare & Kilvarnet (Dublin, 1878), 159;  Dictionary of Scottish Architects, www.scottisharchitects.org.uk (last visited 2 Oct 2008)

Name: MONRO, JAMES MILNE #
Building: CO. SLIGO, MARKREE CASTLE
Date: 1890-1900
Nature: Alterations for Edward Henry Cooper.
Refs: www.scottisharchitects.org.uk, citing Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 201-2, and Monro & Partners collection in Glasgow City Archives, MON 1890/14