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?; Eugenie Carr, 'A catalogue of the Stapleton family collection of Drawings in the National Library of Ireland', unpublished MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1985, 100-101,117-118,235; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 84, Pl.48.. |