Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KERRY, OAKPARK HOUSE (TRALEE)

Name: ATKINS, WILLIAM
Building: CO. KERRY, OAKPARK HOUSE (TRALEE)
Date: 1857-1860
Nature: Northern Italian Gothic, for Maurice Fitzgerald Sandes. Builder: R. Evans. Chimneypieces: Hardman, Birmingham. Staircase brasswork: Skidmore, Coventry. Carving & decoration: Dixon & Taylor, Tralee.
Refs: Kerry Evening Post, 22 Dec 1860; DB 3, 1 Jan 1861, 387;  Irish Times, 28 Dec 1860;  Jeremy Williams, 'William Atkins 1812-1887, a forgotten Cork Pre-Raphaelite' in A. Bernelle (ed.), Decantations: a tribute to Maurice Craig (1992), 244-5,249; Michael McCarthy, 'Oakpark, Tralee: an Irish jewel of the Gothic Revival', Irish Arts Review 14 (1998), 125-133(illus.)

Name: BUTLER, RUDOLF MAXIMILIAN
Building: CO. KERRY, OAKPARK HOUSE (TRALEE)
Date: 1926
Nature: New chapel for Presentation Order Central Novitiate built on foundations of former conservatory
Refs: Bernadette Walsh, A History of Collis-Sandes House (Tony Walsh: Castleisland, 1997), 23(illus.),24

Name: CLARKE, HARRY *
Building: CO. KERRY, OAKPARK HOUSE (TRALEE)
Date: 1932
Nature: 5 windows in chapel sanctuary.(Moved c 1974(? )to Glenflesk, Killarney).
Refs: Bernadette Walsh, A History of Collis-Sandes House (Tony Walsh: Castleisland, 1997), 25

Name: WINTERS, JOHN JOSEPH
Building: CO. KERRY, OAKPARK HOUSE (TRALEE)
Date: 1934
Nature: Sewerage improvements at Oakpark, Castleisland & Knocknagashel, Co. Kerry.
Refs: IB 76, 16 Jun 1934, 520