Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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