Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WICKLOW, KILRUDDERY

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. WICKLOW, KILRUDDERY
Date: 1814
Nature: Proposed Gothicization for John Chambré Brabazon, 10th Earl of Meath, attr. to FJ.
Refs: Unsigned plan and elevations dated 1814 in IAA, Murray Collection, nos. 933-935 (see Murray collection catalogue, pp. 279-280)

Name: MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR)
Building: CO. WICKLOW, KILRUDDERY
Date: 1820-1829
Nature: Tudor-style adds. & alts. With William Morrison, for John Chambré Brabazon, 10th Earl of Meath. Also Greek revival gates and lodge, and octagonal dairy in garden. (House reduced in size by Phillimore & James, 1952-54, see drawings in RIBA Drawings Collection.)
Refs: John Cornforth & the Knight of Glin, 'Kilruddery, Co. Wicklow', Country Life 162 (14,21 Jul 1977, 78-81,146-9; A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 113-116(illus.)

Name: MORRISON, WILLIAM VITRUVIUS
Building: CO. WICKLOW, KILRUDDERY
Date: 1820-1829
Nature: Tudor-style adds. & alts. With Richard Morrison, for John Chambré Brabazon, 10th Earl of Meath. Also Greek revival gates and lodge, and octagonal dairy in garden.
Refs: John Cornforth & the Knight of Glin, 'Kilruddery, Co. Wicklow', Country Life 162 (14,21 Jul 1977, 78-81,146-9; A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 113-116(illus.)

Name: POBJE, HENRY *
Building: CO. WICKLOW, KILRUDDERY
Date: 1820s
Nature: Ornamental plasterwork in principal rooms and hall.
Refs: John Cornforth & the Knight of Glin, 'Kilruddery, Co. Wicklow - II', Country Life 162, 14 Jul 1977, 147-148(illus.).

Name: FLEURY, - *
Building: CO. WICKLOW, KILRUDDERY
Date: 1820s
Nature: Carpenter employed on remodelling of Kilruddery to designs by Richard and William Vitruvius Morrison.
Refs: John Cornforth & the Knight of Glin, 'Kilruddery, Co. Wicklow - II', Country Life 162, 14 Jul 1977, 147.

Name: BOYLAN, PATRICK *
Building: CO. WICKLOW, KILRUDDERY
Date: 1820s
Nature: Painting and paperhanging in house remodelled by Richard and William Vitruvius Morrison.
Refs: John Cornforth & the Knight of Glin, 'Kilruddery, Co. Wicklow - II', Country Life 162, 14 Jul 1977, 147.

Name: GILLIGAN, SIMON *
Building: CO. WICKLOW, KILRUDDERY
Date: 1824
Nature: Plaster decoration in great drawing room, completed 24 Apr 1824.
Refs: John Cornforth & the Knight of Glin, 'Kilruddery, Co. Wicklow - II', Country Life 162, 14 Jul 1977, 148.

Name: WYATT, MATTHEW COTES *#
Building: CO. WICKLOW, KILRUDDERY
Date: 1827ca
Nature: Panelled walls and pelmet cornices in drawing room in a Louix XV revival style. For 10th Earl of Meath.
Refs: Designs signed Matt. Wyatt, Junr, in collection of Earl of Meath, Kilruddery.

Name: ROBERTSON, DANIEL
Building: CO. WICKLOW, KILRUDDERY
Date: 1845
Nature: Designs for gardens (balustrades, fountains, &c.). For 10th Earl of Meath.
Refs: Signed, dated drawings at Kilruddery (photographs in IAA, Reading Room box files); Frederick O'Dwyer, '"Modelled Muscularity": Daniel Robertson's Tudor mansions', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 15 (1999), 96.

Name: BURN, WILLIAM #
Building: CO. WICKLOW, KILRUDDERY
Date: 1852
Nature: Conservatory and gate lodge, for 11th Earl of Meath
Refs: Drawings for gate lodge, 1852, and conservatory, 1852-53, in collection of Earl of Meath, Kilruddery;  Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn, 2008), 193

Name: HODSON, GEORGE FREDERICK JOHN (SIR)
Building: CO. WICKLOW, KILRUDDERY
Date: 1854
Nature: Design for aviary.  For William Brabazon, 11th Earl of Meath.
Refs: Plan & elevation in IAA, Hollybrooke Drawings collection, Acc.87/55.26/1-2.

Name: SLATER, WILLIAM #
Building: CO. WICKLOW, KILRUDDERY
Date: 1861-62
Nature: Alts. including Dutch gable and oriel window on S front. For 11th Earl of Meath.
Refs: Detail drawing of window, 11 Nov 1861, in collection of Earl of Meath, Kilruddery (photograph in IAA, Reading Room box files).

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. WICKLOW, KILRUDDERY
Date: ?
Nature: 4 labourers' cottages for Earl of Meath.  Entrance gate, for Lady Meath (post 1887, because gate bears initials R[eginald] M[eath] with Earl's cornonet).
Refs: Undated drawings in collection of Earl of Meath, Kilruddery (photograph of design for gate in IAA, Reading Room box files).