Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TIPPERARY, CAHIR CASTLE

Name: BEAZLEY, SAMUEL #
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CAHIR CASTLE
Date: 1838ca-1840
Nature: Alterations for 2nd Earl of Glengall
Refs: Copy & tracings of preliminary designs by SB made by George Ostell Leicester, in Victoria & Albert Museum, RIBA Drawings Collection PB107/17(1-2), see British Architectural Library Catalogue, http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/OSyL8TSpVw/MAIN_CAT/192650084/13 (last visited May 2009) and Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects B (RIBA, 1972), 61; RA Exhibition 1838, nos.1174,1205; Mary Cecilia Lyons, Illustrated Incumbered Estates Ireland, 1850-1905 (1993), 71(illus.)72(illus.)

Name: LEICESTER, GEORGE OSTELL #
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CAHIR CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: Design for alts to castle in RIBA drawings collection which catalogue attributes to Leicester on stylistic grounds; probably relates to Beazley's alterations and improvements of c.1838-1840.
Refs: Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects L-N (1973), 20.