Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILKENNY, BESSBOROUGH

Name: COLLES, WILLIAM [1]*
Building: CO. KILKENNY, BESSBOROUGH
Date: 1744
Nature: WC contractor for Bindon's design
Refs: Communication from J.G.A. Prim in JRSAI 4 (1856-7), 54

Name: BINDON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. KILKENNY, BESSBOROUGH
Date: 1744p
Nature: 'Though not inhabited for forty years, the house is kept in excellent order; it was built by David[sic] Bindon of Limerick, as were the houses of Casltemorres and Woodstock.' (Tighe). Old house dem. 1744 and new house built from design of Francis Bindon.(Neale, but attr. to Richard Castle in APSD, C, 42). For Earl of Bessborough. (Burnt out, Feb 1923, see Irish Times, 16 May 1925.)
Refs: William Tighe, Statistical Observations relative to the County of Kilkenny made in the years 1800 and 1801 (1802), 586; J.P. Neale, Views of…Seats, II (1823), 66; BIGS, 10, Nos. 2 & 3, Apr-Sep 1967, 11

Name: GOODHART-RENDEL, HARRY STUART #
Building: CO. KILKENNY, BESSBOROUGH
Date: 1925-1930
Nature: Reconstruction after burning in 1923; guard house & cottages, for 9th Earl of Bessborough.
Refs: Designs in RIBA drawings collection, see Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects G-K (1973), 67, no. 150; IB 69, 19 Mar 1927, 202

Name: DEANE, THOMAS MANLY (SIR)
Building: CO. KILKENNY, BESSBOROUGH
Date: ?
Nature: Alterations, including removing front steps and moving principal entrance to ground floor, new porch, conversion of original hall into sitting room.
Refs: T.U. Sadleir & P.L. Dickinson, Georgian Mansions in Ireland (1915), 21