Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LONGFORD, CASTLE FORBES

Name: HARGRAVE, JOHN
Building: CO. LONGFORD, CASTLE FORBES
Date: 1819;1826
Nature: Proposed enlargement; works at. for Lord Forbes.
Refs: Plans and elevation for proposed enlargement, signed and dated 1819, and letter from JH to Lord Forbes, 1826, which indicates that he had been working at Castle Forbes after the fire of 1825, in PRONI, Granard Papers F/3/1-2; catalogue of auction of architectural drawings of John Hargrave, 1 Dec 1836, Lot 27; APSD 14 (1864), H, 23; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 190

Name: DARLEY, FREDERICK [2]
Building: CO. LONGFORD, CASTLE FORBES
Date: 1837
Nature: Proposed mausoleum for Viscount Forbes (d.1837.)
Refs: Numerous designs by FD in PRONI, Granard Papers, F/3/1-2

Name: LEINSTER, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK, 3RD DUKE OF
Building: CO. LONGFORD, CASTLE FORBES
Date: 1859
Nature: Proposed additions, including new drawing room, 'White Room', dining room and bow-ended stair hall. For George Arthur Hastings Forbes, 7th Earl of Granard.
Refs: Signed basement, 1st & 2nd floor plans, dated 13 Jan 1859, in collection of W.E. English, Scotch Parade, Athlone, in 1974.

Name: MCCARTHY, JAMES JOSEPH
Building: CO. LONGFORD, CASTLE FORBES
Date: 1859;1880?
Nature: Stables, 1859 (Builder: R. Farrell, £4,000), and work on house (date uncertain). For 7th Earl of Granard.
Refs: DB 1, 1 Sep 1859, 115; IB 22, 15 Mar,15 Nov 1880, 83,320-21(illus.)B 17, 17 Sep 1859, 616; RHA 1880, no. 492; Jeanne Sheehy, J.J. McCarthy and the Gothic Revival in Ireland (UAHS, 1977), 52; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 190-191

Name: BELL, JAMES [1]
Building: CO. LONGFORD, CASTLE FORBES
Date: 1860ca
Nature: Proposed alterations.
Refs: Ground plan in PRONI, Granard Papers, F/3/1-2

Name: FOSTER, F.W. #
Building: CO. LONGFORD, CASTLE FORBES
Date: 1923p
Nature: Remodelling, for 8th Earl of Granard.
Refs: Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 191; Mark Bence-Jones, Life in an Irish country house (1996), 64

Name: LENYGON & MORANT #
Building: CO. LONGFORD, CASTLE FORBES
Date: 1923p
Nature: Refurbishment of dining room, drawing room and library for 8th Earl of Longford.
Refs: Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 191-192.

Name: KAYE-PARRY & ROSS
Building: CO. LONGFORD, CASTLE FORBES
Date: ?
Nature: Additions.
Refs: Who's Who in Architecture, 1923, 146.