Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILKENNY, CASTLECOMER HOUSE

Name: JOHNSTON, JOHN [1]
Building: CO. KILKENNY, CASTLECOMER HOUSE
Date: 1800ca
Nature: 'Lady Ormonde has in a spirited manner completed and fixed her residence in a new and hansome mansion, on the site of that destroyed in the late rebellion: Johnson was the architect'.
Refs: William Tighe, Statistical Observations relative to the County of Kilkenny made in the years 1800 and 1801 (1802), 588 (identified as John Johnston by Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 64, but why not Richard Johnston?)

Name: COBDEN, THOMAS ALFRED
Building: CO. KILKENNY, CASTLECOMER HOUSE
Date: 1825
Nature: TC paid about £2 for work on 'Lady Ormonde's house' (presumably Castlecomer House).
Refs: Prior-Wandesforde Papers in collection of Kilkenny Archives Ltd, St Keiran's Colleghe, Kilkenny, File 130 (information from John Kirwan, May 2011).

Name: BECKETT, GEORGE FRANCIS
Building: CO. KILKENNY, CASTLECOMER HOUSE
Date: 1912-13
Nature: Reconstruction; new entrance and gate lodge nearing completion, for R.H. Prior-Wandesford, DL. Contractor: James Mulhall, Castlecomer. Cost 'some £1,600'.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0951, B21/80, A09 (Jul 1912); IB 54, 6 Jan 1912, 17