Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WESTMEATH, KILLUA CASTLE

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, KILLUA CASTLE
Date: 1784ca
Nature: New house built by Sir Benjamin Chapman, consisting of hall, dining room, oval drawing room, breakfast parlour, front and back stairs. Also new stable yard, barn and haggard.
Refs: MS notes by Lady Chapman, 1930s?, in possession of Eugene Sheridan, Killua (photocopy in IAA, RPD 141.10)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, KILLUA CASTLE
Date: 1800
Nature: Ruin in shrubbery built using stones from Multyfarnham Abbey. For Sir Benjamin Chapman.
Refs: MS notes by Lady Chapman, 1930s?, in possession of Eugene Sheridan, Killua (photocopy in IAA, RPD 141.10)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, KILLUA CASTLE
Date: 1800
Nature: Temple Lodge and gates and new approach to house from Clonmellon. For Sir Benjamin Chapman. (Gates moved to market square, Clonmellon, 1845.)
Refs: MS notes by Lady Chapman, 1930s?, in possession of Eugene Sheridan, Killua (photocopy in IAA, RPD 141.10)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, KILLUA CASTLE
Date: 1806-7
Nature: Obelisk to Lord Nelson..
Refs: MS notes by Lady Chapman, 1930s?, in possession of Eugene Sheridan, Killua (photocopy in IAA, RPD 141.10)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, KILLUA CASTLE
Date: 1814
Nature: Alts. to dining room, including dome, with pantries and greenhouse adjoining. For Sir Thomas Chapman (who also enlarged lake in grounds, 1812-13 and 1818-19).
Refs: MS notes by Lady Chapman, 1930s?, in possession of Eugene Sheridan, Killua (photocopy in IAA, RPD 141.10)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, KILLUA CASTLE
Date: 1821-1826
Nature: Addition of large round tower, 1821, and another tower, 1823. Library tower, staircase tower, back door tower added and castellation completed, 1825-26. For Sir Thomas Chapmanl  'very probably to designs by James Shiel, whose coarse but not ineffective Gothic castle manner is documented in the additions of 1840 at Killeen, which Killua resembles' (Casey & Rowan).
Refs: MS notes by Lady Chapman, 1930s?, in possession of Eugene Sheridan, Killua (photocopy in IAA, RPD 141.10);  Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 212-3.


Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, KILLUA CASTLE
Date: 1828
Nature: Gothic lodge and new approach, 1828. For Sir Thomas Chapman.
Refs: MS notes by Lady Chapman, 1930s?, in possession of Eugene Sheridan, Killua (photocopy in IAA, RPD 141.10)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, KILLUA CASTLE
Date: 1834
Nature: Obelisk to Sir Walter Raleigh. For Sir Thomas Chapman. (Date 1810 on it is year Sir Thomas Chapman succeeded his brother)
Refs: MS notes by Lady Chapman, 1930s?, in posession of Eugene Sheridan, Killua (photocopy in IAA, RPD 141.10)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, KILLUA CASTLE
Date: 1854
Nature: Rebuilding of dining room, replacement of pantries by communication with first floor, building of SE tower and small adjoining tower. New kitchen yard, underground passage to same removed. For Sir Benjamin Chapman.
Refs: MS notes by Lady Chapman, 1930s?, in possession of Eugene Sheridan, Killua (photocopy in IAA, RPD 141.10)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, KILLUA CASTLE
Date: 1856
Nature: New approach from Kells with lodge and gate. For Sir Benjamin Chapman.
Refs: MS notes by Lady Chapman, 1930s?, in possession of Eugene Sheridan, Killua (photocopy in IAA, RPD 141.10)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, KILLUA CASTLE
Date: 1857
Nature: Gardener's house. For Sir Benjamin Chapman.
Refs: MS notes by Lady Chapman, 1930s?, in possession of Eugene Sheridan, Killua (photocopy in IAA, RPD 141.10)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, KILLUA CASTLE
Date: 1858
Nature: Glass passage bridge and postern door in small tower, refitting of rooms for use of Dowager Lady Chapman (mother of Sir Benjamin)
Refs: MS notes by Lady Chapman, 1930s?, in possession of Eugene Sheridan, Killua (photocopy in IAA, RPD 141.10)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, KILLUA CASTLE
Date: 1863
Nature: Boat house. For Sir Benjamin Chapman.
Refs: MS notes by Lady Chapman, 1930s?, in possession of Eugene Sheridan, Killua (photocopy in IAA, RPD 141.10)