Selected: CO. MEATH, OLDBRIDGE HOUSE
Name: | DARLEY, GEORGE [1]* |
Building: | CO. MEATH, OLDBRIDGE HOUSE |
Date: | 1750ca |
Nature: | New house for Dixie Coddington. Attribution to GD suggested by Casey & Rowan. Date of building of house recorded in following inscription on piece of baseboard of stair (removed during repairs carried out in 1960s): ' December 1836 Patrick Kelly of the City of Dublin / Put up these Staircases. / I worked at this building from April / till now. / 86 years from the first / Building of this house/ till now as we see by a stick like this found.' |
Refs: | Inscription on piece of baseboard of stair (removed during repairs carried out in 1960s) in the possession (2013) of Nicholas Coddington, Toronto, Canada, formerly of Oldbridge House; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 447. |
Name: | DARLEY, FREDERICK [2] |
Building: | CO. MEATH, OLDBRIDGE HOUSE |
Date: | 1832-1836ca |
Nature: | Addition of extra floor to each wing and major internal alterations. New stair built by Patrick Kelly, Dublin, Apr-Dec 1836, '86 years from the first building of this house'. |
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Drawings on paper watermarked 1832 and inscription by Patrick Kelly on piece of baseboard of stair (removed during repairs carried out in 1960s) in the possession (2013) of Nicholas Coddington, Toronto, Canada, formerly of Oldbridge House; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 228 (illus.); Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 447. |