Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MEATH, DUNSANY CASTLE

Name: SHIEL, JAMES
Building: CO. MEATH, DUNSANY CASTLE
Date: 1842a
Nature: Remodelling of house (including dining room and library), renewal of stables, farmyards, finished by Feb 1842. For 14th Baron Dunsany.
Refs: Letter from James Shiel, 1 Feb 1842, to Edward Michael, 3rd Earl of Longford in collection of Thomas Pakenham, Tullynally (photocopy in IAA); John Cornforth, 'Dunsany Castle, Co. Meath - II', Country Life 149, 3 Jun 1971, 1364(illus.),1365(illus.),1366; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 280-281

Name: JACK, GEORGE WASHINGTON HENRY #
Building: CO. MEATH, DUNSANY CASTLE
Date: 1910
Nature: Addition of single storey wing containing billiard room.
Refs: RIBAJ 39, 6 Feb 1932, 278; John Cornforth, 'Dunsany Castle, Co. Meath - II', Country Life 149, 3 Jun 1971, 1365,1366(illus.); Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 281. [NB Nicola Gordon Bowe is working on Jack's addition.]

Name: SCOTT, GEORGE GILBERT (SIR) #
Building: CO. MEATH, DUNSANY CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: Proposed scheme featuring entrance tower to N of library tower and slim SE tower. For Edward, 16th Baron Dunsany.
Refs: John Cornforth, 'Dunsany Castle, Co. Meath - II', Country Life 149, 3 Jun 1971, 1365-6 (Cornforth gives no date and refers to the architect simply as 'Gilbert Scott', so the designs could possibly be by George Gilbert Scott, the Younger (1839-1897)).