Selected: CO. MEATH, ARDBRACCAN
Name: | CASTLE, RICHARD |
Building: | CO. MEATH, ARDBRACCAN |
Date: | 1734p |
Nature: | Proposed new house. Wings only completed |
Refs: | Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 113. |
Name: | BEAUFORT, DANIEL AUGUSTUS (REV.) |
Building: | CO. MEATH, ARDBRACCAN |
Date: | 1772-1775 |
Nature: | DAB and Thomas Cooley involved in design, James Wyatt having provided preliminary design in 1773. DAB supervises erection of house. For Henry Maxwell, Bishop of Meath. |
Refs: | Signed elevation of gates,1772, front and rear elevations and plans (see The Architecture of Ireland in Drawings and Paintings, (NGI, 1975), nos. 9,10) in collection of David Maher, Ardbraccan (formerly in Farnham Collection, NLI); Georgian Society Records V, 98; J.N. Brewer, The Beauties of Ireland (1825 & 1826), II, 189; C. C. Ellison, 'Remembering Dr Beaufort', BIGS 18 (Jan-Mar 1975), 13-14; C.C. Ellison, The Hopeful Traveller (1987), 90; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 113-4. |
Name: | COOLEY, THOMAS |
Building: | CO. MEATH, ARDBRACCAN |
Date: | 1772-1775 |
Nature: | TC and Rev. Daniel Beaufort involved in design, James Wyatt having provided preliminary design in 1773 |
Refs: | Drawings (formerly in Farnham Collection, NLI) in collection of David Maher, Ardbraccan (see The Architecture of Ireland in Drawings and Paintings, (NGI, 1975), nos. 11,12); details of vestibule and study in Cooley sketchbook in collection of Earl of Caledon; Architecture in Ireland (Catalogue, 1975), nos. 4,5,11,12; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 113-114 |
Name: | WYATT, JAMES # |
Building: | CO. MEATH, ARDBRACCAN |
Date: | 1773-1776 |
Nature: | Design of central block, for Henry Maxwell, Bishop of Meath. Erected in simpler form under supervision of Rev. Daniel Beaufort. |
Refs: |
Signed elevation dated 1773 (repr. in The Architecture of Ireland in drawings & paintings (NGI, 1975), no. 6) and plan of principal floor, (rept. loc. cit., no. 8) in collection of David Maher, Ardbraccan (formerly in Farnham Collection, NLI); J.N. Brewer, The Beauties of Ireland II (1826), 189; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 113-4; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 1183; John Martin Robinson, James Wyatt: architect to George III (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012),116. |
Name: | BOGGS, ALEXANDER |
Building: | CO. MEATH, ARDBRACCAN |
Date: | 1776 |
Nature: | AB engaged as clerk of works by Henry Maxwell, Bishop of Meath, on recommendation of Sir James Caldwell. |
Refs: |
John Rylands Library, Manchester, Bagshawe MSS B 3/10/426-481 |
Name: | BROWNRIGG, JAMES |
Building: | CO. MEATH, ARDBRACCAN |
Date: | 1800 |
Nature: | Survey of stable yards and kitchen offices and farm yards in wings showing proposed alterations. Perhaps by JB. For Thomas Lewis O'Beirne, Bishop of Meath. |
Refs: |
2 plans, signed Js:[?] Brownrigg/1800 in IAA, Guinness collection, Acc. 96/068. |
Name: | HENRY, DAVID |
Building: | CO. MEATH, ARDBRACCAN |
Date: | 1824 |
Nature: | DH designs? and executes work at same. |
Refs: | NA/SPO CSORP 1825/12,887 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44). (Application by DH to succeed Johnston as architect to Board of Works); detail drawing of ceiling rose at Ardbraccan, signed and dated 'H,M & MacM', June 1824, in IAA, Guinness Collection, Acc. 96/68.5/4/3. |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. MEATH, ARDBRACCAN |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Elevation and plan of 3-bay Adamesque design (unexecuted) with enfilade of square entrance hall, elliptacal stairhall and circular saloon on central axis. Thought by Rowan & Casey to be a proposal for Ardbraccan for Henry Maxwell, Bishop of Meath. |
Refs: | Unsigned, undated drawing from Farnham Collection, NLI, sold at auction by HOK Fine Art, 17 Jun 2004, Lot 275 (now in collection of David Maher, Ardbraccan?); Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 114. |