Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MEATH, GIBBSTOWN HOUSE

Name: LYNN, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. MEATH, GIBBSTOWN HOUSE
Date: 1871-72
Nature: 7-bay, 3-storey Italianate house with campanile,built of Ardbraccan limestone. Cost over £70,000. Contractor: James Henry, Belfast. For Thomas Gerrard, DL. House badly damaged by fire in 1912 & rebuilt under supervision of J.F. Fuller.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0959, 1229, also album of photographs taken after fire for fire damage purposes; IB 16, 15 Jan 1874, 17; 53, 15 Apr 1911, 234; 54, 13,27 Apr 1912, 213,266; 67, 12 Dec 1925, 1020; Kevin Mulligan, Buildings of Meath (2001), 126-7(illus.).

Name: LYNN, SAMUEL FERRES *
Building: CO. MEATH, GIBBSTOWN HOUSE
Date: 1874
Nature: Panels representing the Seasons on main staircase. (Staircase later demolished.)
Refs: W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II, 35;  photographs in IAA.

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. MEATH, GIBBSTOWN HOUSE
Date: 1912-14
Nature: Rebuilding after fire in April 1912, for Thomas Gerrard, DL. Builder: G. & T. Crampton. £23,739. Plasterer: George Rome.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0003. A09 (Sep,Oct 1912,Nov 1914); IB 54, 54, 13,27 Apr,21 Dec 1912, 213,266,728; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 211-12;  Ruth McManus, Crampton Built (Dublin: G. & T. Crampton, 2008), 28-31(illus.)