Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. OFFALY, BIRR CASTLE

Name: JOHNSTON, JOHN [1]
Building: CO. OFFALY, BIRR CASTLE
Date: 1801-02ca
Nature: Gothic alts. & adds, including saloon and entrance gate, with Sir Laurence Parsons.
Refs: Drawings in Birr Castle archives (photographs in IAA); 'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 4; M. Girouard, 'Birr Castle, Co. Offaly - II', Country Life 138, 4 Mar 1965, 469.

Name: MYDDLETON, RICHARD WHARTON (COL) #
Building: CO. OFFALY, BIRR CASTLE
Date: 1846-48
Nature: Designed Vaubanesque fortifications surrounding castle.
Refs: Mark Girouard, 'Birr Castle, Co. Offaly - III', Country Life 138, 11 Mar 1965, 528-9.

Name: SALVIN, ANTHONY (SENIOR) #
Building: CO. OFFALY, BIRR CASTLE
Date: 1860c
Nature: Plans for kitchen in proposed extension beyond dining-room (unexecuted).
Refs: A.P.W. Malcomson, Calendar of the Rosse papers (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2008), 115

Name: STRYPE, WILLIAM GEORGE
Building: CO. OFFALY, BIRR CASTLE
Date: 1873
Nature: WS 'designed and superintended the construction of the equatorial mounting for a 3-foot telescope for the [4th] Earl of Rosse'.
Refs: Model of telecope exh. by Earl of Rosse at Conversazione of Inst.CE, 22 May 1849 (Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 12 (Jun 1849), 185; Min.Proc.Inst.CE 134 (1897-8, Pt. IV), 412. (For making of speculum, see Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 7 (27 Jan 1844), 45-46;  see also pp. 404-5 and Vol. 8, 139-140.)