Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ARMAGH, THE ARGORY

Name: WILLIAMSON, JOHN [1]
Building: CO. ARMAGH, THE ARGORY
Date: 1819-24?
Nature: Designed by Arthur and John Williamson, for William McGeough.
Refs: Design for house 'now erecting' exh. RHA 1826, No. 250; Gervase Jackson-Stops, 'The Argory, Co. Armagh', Country Life 173, 30 Jun 1983, 1768-1771; 174, 7 Jul 1983, 20-24, and The Argory (National Trust, 1984);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 85-7.

Name: WILLIAMSON, ARTHUR
Building: CO. ARMAGH, THE ARGORY
Date: 1819-24?
Nature: Designed by Arthur and John Williamson, for William McGeough.
Refs: Gervase Jackson-Stops, 'The Argory, Co. Armagh', Country Life 173, 30 Jun 1983, 1768-1771; 174, 7 Jul 1983, 20-24, and The Argory (National Trust, 1984); ;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 85-7.

Name: BROWNLEES, H.?
Building: CO. ARMAGH, THE ARGORY
Date: 1820s
Nature: Design for offices.
Refs: The Argory (National Trust, 1984), 32; photograph of signed, undated drawing in collection of National Trust, The Argory, in IAA.

Name: DWYER, JOHN [1]*
Building: CO. ARMAGH, THE ARGORY
Date: 1821;1823-1827
Nature: Works at same, including 'a Portland Stone Geometrical bracketted Stair Case'(1821)
Refs: Bill for £64.2.6 dated 10 Dec 1821 in collection of The National Trust, The Argory;  bills and letter sent by JD to Walter MacGeough, 1821, 1823-27, in PRONI, D288/E, see PRONI E-catalogue, http://applications.proni.gov.uk/LL_DCAL_PRONI_ECATNI/ResultDetails.aspx (last visited, Nov 2011);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 86.

Name: DUFF, THOMAS J. [1]
Building: CO. ARMAGH, THE ARGORY
Date: 1821ca;1835
Nature: TD oversees construction of house designed by John and Arthur Williamson for Walter McGeough (who assumed additional name of Bond, Nov 1824) . 2 gate lodges, 1835.
Refs: G. Jackson-Stops, 'The Argory, Co. Armagh', Country Life 173, 30 Jun 1983, 1769 & 174, 7 Jul 1983, 24;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 85,87.

Name: ANESFREE, - *
Building: CO. ARMAGH, THE ARGORY
Date: 1822ca
Nature: Organ gallery decorative plasterwork probably by Anesfree, for Walter McGeough.
Refs: G. Jackson-Stops, 'The Argory, Co. Armagh', Country Life 173, 30 Jun 1983, 1771

Name: BALLANTINE, ROBERT [1]*
Building: CO. ARMAGH, THE ARGORY
Date: 1823
Nature: RB 'senior' (father of RB [1]?) employed as mason at Argory ca 1823 when he was involved in a dispute with client, Walter MacGeough, in which Francis Johnston acted as arbitrator..
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 85.

Name: DUFF, THOMAS J. [1]
Building: CO. ARMAGH, THE ARGORY
Date: 1835
Nature: Proposed Greek revival chapel, for Walter McGeough Bond.
Refs: Undated plan and elevation in collection of National Trust, Northern Ireland, at The Argory (front elevation repr. in The Argory, Co. Armagh (The National Trust, 1984), 28G). Jackson-Stops, 'The Argory, Co. Armagh', Country Life 174, 7 Jul 1983, 24; Paul Larmour, 'That eminent and tasteful architect', Perspective7, No. 1 (Sep/Oct 1998), 61

Name: DUFF, THOMAS J. [1]
Building: CO. ARMAGH, THE ARGORY
Date: 1835ca
Nature: Gate lodges for Walter McGeough Bond.
Refs: G. Jackson-Stops, 'The Argory, Co. Armagh', Country Life 174, 7 Jul 1983, 24; J.A.K. Dean, The Gate Lodges of Ulster (UAHS, 1994), 33 (no. 11, illus.)

Name: TURNER, THOMAS
Building: CO. ARMAGH, THE ARGORY
Date: 1856
Nature: Proposals for enlargement of house for Walter McGeough Bond.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 86.

Name: DUFF, THOMAS J. [1]
Building: CO. ARMAGH, THE ARGORY
Date: ?
Nature: Woodman's cottage, for Walter McGeough Bond.
Refs: Undated elevations & plan in collection of National Trust, Northern Ireland, at The Argory.