Selected: CO. TYRONE, GARVEY HOUSE
Name: | JOHNSTON, FRANCIS |
Building: | CO. TYRONE, GARVEY HOUSE |
Date: | 1798-1812 |
Nature: | Palatial 3-bay, 7-bay house, for Nathaniel Montgomery Moore. Ultimate cost said to have been £70,000, which effectively bankrupted the client, who retired to France in 1815. House dismantled 1821. |
Refs: | Unsigned, undated sketch design in IAA, Murray Collection, no. 366 (see Murray Collection catalogue, p.259); letter from Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore, to his wife, ? ? 1798, in British Library, Add. MSS. 32,335/89; John J. Marshall, Annals of Aughnacloy (Dungannon, 1925), 24-5; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 115-116 |