Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILKENNY, WELLINGTON HOUSE (CAHIRLESKE)

Name: ROBERTSON, WILLIAM
Building: CO. KILKENNY, WELLINGTON HOUSE (CAHIRLESKE)
Date: 1811
Nature: New Classical 3-bay, 2-storey-over-basement house, with advanced, pedimented centray bay, for Wiliiam Pitt Blunden. Carpentry by Charles Reilly, masonry by Walter Dwyer and slating by Patrick Smyth.
Refs: Building agreements, 11 Jun 1811, at Castle Blunden, Co. Kilkenny, published by John Kirwan, 'Under Hand' in Short Schrift:  an offering to Frank McEvoy on the occasion of his 80th birthday (Kilkenny, n.d.), 19-22(illus.).