Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ARMAGH, ARDRESS HOUSE

Name: ENSOR, GEORGE
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARDRESS HOUSE
Date: 1780ca
Nature: Added portico to east front, erected rectangular block behind existing one, containing new drawing room, decorated by Michael Stapleton. For himself.
Refs: Ardress House (National Trust, 1990), 9 4(illus.),12(illus.),15(illus.),20(illus.);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 83-4,Pl.47.


Name: STAPLETON, MICHAEL *
Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARDRESS HOUSE
Date: ?
Nature: Drawing room ceiling possibly by MS.
Refs: Design for drawing room ceiling at Ardress (or Lucan House ?) in NLI, Stapleton Collection, see Ardress House (National Trust, 1990), 9, 15-17(illus.); C.P. Curran, Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1967), ?; Eugenie Carr, 'A catalogue of the Stapleton family collection of Drawings in the National Library of Ireland', unpublished MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1985, 100-101,117-118,235;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 84, Pl.48..