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.) |