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 |