Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LONGFORD, CARRIGGLAS

Name: GANDON, JAMES
Building: CO. LONGFORD, CARRIGGLAS
Date: 1792-1804?
Nature: Villa (unexecuted), farm yard, stable yard and entrance gate. For Sir Willliam Gleadowe-Newcomen, Bt.
Refs: See E. McParland, James Gandon: Vitruvius Hibernicus (1985), refs. as in index.

Name: ROBERTSON, DANIEL
Building: CO. LONGFORD, CARRIGGLAS
Date: 1837-1845
Nature: Tudor Gothic remodelling for Thomas Lefroy. Contractor for mason work: William Dennin. Coats of arms carved by Andrew Coffey. Clerk of Works: Simmons.
Refs: Drawings in coll. Geoffrey Lefroy, Carrigglas (photocopies in IAA Acc. no. 86/150); Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 58(illus.); Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 179-182, Pls.115,116; Frederick O'Dwyer, '"Modelled Muscularity": Daniel Robertson's Tudor mansions', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 15 (1999), 87(illus.), 94