Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, KILSHANNIG

Name: DUCART, DAVIS
Building: CO. CORK, KILSHANNIG
Date: 1765-6
Nature: New 7-bay, 3-storey over basement house house, for Abraham Devonsher.
Refs: Mentioned in Ducart's will (see summary in Georgian Society Records 5 (1913), 72); Desmond Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin, 'The architecture of Davis Duckart', Country Life 142, 28 Sep 1967, 736-8(illus.); Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 176(illus.); John Logan, 'Dropped into this Kingdom from the clouds': The Irish career of Davis Dukart, architect and engineer, 1761-1781', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 10 (2007), 48-49.

Name: LAFRANCHINI, FILIPPO *
Building: CO. CORK, KILSHANNIG
Date: 1765-66ca
Nature: By Filippo Lafranchini ( with help from Pietro Natale?) for Abraham Devonsher.
Refs: C.P. Curran, C.P. Curran, Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1967), ?; Carlo Palumbo-Fossati, Gli Stuccatori Ticinesi Lafranchini in Inghilterra e in Irlanda nel Secolo XVIII (Fondazione Ticino Nostro, Lugano, 1982), 79-81, Pls. 67-70; Joseph McDonnell, Irish Eighteenth-Century Stuccowork and its European sources (National Gallery of Ireland, 1991), 19-20, Pls. 59-63