Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. GALWAY, MOUNT BELLEW

Name: DUTTON, HELY
Building: CO. GALWAY, MOUNT BELLEW
Date: 1813-1816
Nature: Creation of lake.
Refs: J.P. Neale, Views of Seats III (1820), No. 68; Edward Malins & The Knight of Glin, Lost Demesnes: Irish Landscape Gardening, 1660-1845 (1976), 67,71

Name: MADDEN, DOMINICK
Building: CO. GALWAY, MOUNT BELLEW
Date: 1817-20;1827
Nature: Designs for alts. and adds. to house, stables, greenhouses, bridges ifor Christopher Dillon Bellew in NLI .. Also proposed new (dower?) house on estate for his widow, Olivia (now Holy Rosary Convent, Mount Bellew)
Refs: Signed drawings, dated 1817-1820 and 1827, for greenhouses, bridges, stables and alts. & adds. to the house itself, in NLI (bought at auction by Mealy's of Castlecomer, 6 Dec 1995, Lot 376; another drawing for a stable and coach house at Mount Bellew, signed and dated 1818, was already in the NLI, ref. no. AD 1935); Patricia McCarthy & Kevin V. Mulligan, 'New light on Ballyfin', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 8 (2005), 96,98-99(illus.) and and 'The hapless career of Dominick Madden in the west of Ireland', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 9 (2007), 125-129

Name: MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR)
Building: CO. GALWAY, MOUNT BELLEW
Date: 1817a
Nature: Classical adds. & alts. for Christopher Dillon Bellew.
Refs: Signed, undated, front elevation of new offices and general ground plan (in hand of Owen Fahy) sold by George Mealy, Castlecomer, 6 Dec 1995 (Lot 376); J.P. Neale, Views of Seats III (1820), No. 68; J.B. Burke, A Visitation of the seats and arms of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland (2nd ser., 1855), 176; A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 127-8(illus.)

Name: CARROLL, JAMES RAWSON
Building: CO. GALWAY, MOUNT BELLEW
Date: ?
Nature: Altered by JRC
Refs: Obituary of JRC in IB 53, 23 Dec 1911, 858

Name: LEGGETT, THOMAS
Building: CO. GALWAY, MOUNT BELLEW
Date: ?
Nature: Landscape improvements.
Refs: J.P. Neale, Views of Seats III (1820), No. 68; R. Desmond, Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists (1994), 423.