Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MONAGHAN, DARTREY

Name: BURN, WILLIAM #
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, DARTREY
Date: 1844a-1846
Nature: Jacobethan house, for Lord Cremorne, later cr. 1st Earl of Dartrey. According to Northern Standard, 23 Nov 1839, Lord Cremorne was 'expending £40,000 on the erection of a castle as a residence at  Dawson Grove, Co. Monaghan'.  Demolished; Tudor Revival balustrades removed to garden of Kilnacloy, Monaghan Town.  Mulligan suggests that Tudor Gothic gate lodge may also be by WB.
Refs: F.O. Morris, Picturesque Views of Seats [n.d.], III, 57;  Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 189; Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects B (RIBA, 1972), 125,145;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 311-2,476; information from Prof. Kevin Whelan, Dublin, Sep 2021.

Name: ROOS, ALEXANDER #
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, DARTREY
Date: 1848
Nature: AR may have made proposals for house for Richard Dawson, Baron Cremorne.
Refs: Dictionary of Scottish Architects, www.http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=203164 , last visited May 2009 (reference from Frank Keohane).

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, DARTREY
Date: 1867
Nature: Proposed entrance and lodge, for Richard Dawson, 1st Earl of Dartrey. Estimated cost of Dwyer's tender, £850.
Refs: IAA, PKS A03 (Jun 1867, p.64v)