Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LAOIS, STRADBALLY HALL

Name: AHERON, JOHN
Building: CO. LAOIS, STRADBALLY HALL
Date: 1745a
Nature: 'new design for the front'. For Pole Cosby.
Refs: John Aheron, lst MS version of General treatise on architecture, Pl. 40 (see Christine Casey, '"Such a piece of curiosity": John Aheron's A General Treatise of Architecture', Georgian Group Journal(1995), 71)

Name: ROBERTS, ARTHUR
Building: CO. LAOIS, STRADBALLY HALL
Date: 1772
Nature: Plaque in hall reads 'Built by Dudley, Lord Sydney, 1772, Arthur Roberts, overseer'.
Refs: E.McP files

Name: KEMPSTER, JAMES FORTH
Building: CO. LAOIS, STRADBALLY HALL
Date: 1866
Nature: Proposed remodelling for Robert G. Cosby. Not executed.
Refs: Plans, elevation, section, s. J.F. Kempster, Ballinasloe, 1866, in collection of Cosby family, Stradbally Hall (photographs in IAA).

Name: LANYON, LYNN & LANYON
Building: CO. LAOIS, STRADBALLY HALL
Date: 1866-67
Nature: Remodelling, for Robert G. Cosby. Estimatedost: £11,187.
Refs: Plans & elevations, dated 15 Oct 1866, in collection of Cosby family, Stradbally Hall (photographs in IAA); PKS IAA, A03 (Jan 1867, p. 116v)

Name: ARMOR, MAURICE
Building: CO. LAOIS, STRADBALLY HALL
Date: 1867
Nature: Proposed terraces and extension of lake, for Robert G. Cosby.
Refs: 2 plans, signed and dated Jun & Sep 1867, in collection of Cosby family, Stradbally Hall (photographs in IAA); E. Malins & P. Bowe, Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830 (1980), 43.

Name: LOUCH, JOHN HOWARD
Building: CO. LAOIS, STRADBALLY HALL
Date: 1867
Nature: Proposed remodelling, for Robert G. Cosby. Not executed.
Refs: Plans, elevations, details, signed and dated 18 Jan 1867, in collection of Cosby family, Stradbally Hall (photographs in IAA).