Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Architect, active from the 1760s until the 1790s. Enoch Johnston is said to have been responsible for the design of the Octagon in the grounds of Bellevue, Co. Wicklow, erected in 1766.(1) He also made designs for Malton Park (alias Coollattin), Co. Wicklow, in collaboration with SOLOMON SCOTT  SOLOMON SCOTT for William, fourth Earl Fitzwilliam perhaps from as early as 1775.(2) Apart from two designs for a house and shop (1781) and a house (1782) at Tinahely and Kilcavan on the Fitzwilliam estates,(3) all his other known designs date from the 1790s. They are all signed distinctively 'P[e]r E. Johnston' and comprise a rough draft of a plan for offices at Birr Castle (1793),(4) an elevation of the Flannel Hall at Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow (1792),(5) and a plan and elevation of an oval greenhouse (1794).(6) Johnston had died by January 1797 when his son, CHRISTMAS JOHNSTON CHRISTMAS JOHNSTON , was paid ten guineas for his late father's plans for Coollattin.(7)

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(1) J. Ferrar, A View of Dublin to 1796, 111; IB 20, 5 May 1878, 146.
(2) Sheffield Archives, Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments, WWM/MP/29/4-6.
(3) Sheffield Archives, Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments, WWM/MP/19/1 and WWM/MP/20/1.
(4) Birr Castle archives; a John Johnston was working at Birr some ten years later.
(5) Fitzwilliam Papers, Sheffield Archives, WWM/MP/ 22/1 and WWM/F/89/123.
(6) NLI AD 2694; illustrated in The Architecture of Ireland in drawings and paintings (1975), no 46 (wrongly given to Francis Johnston).
(7) NLI MS 6015 ((IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc. 2008/44).


5 work entries listed in chronological order for JOHNSTON, ENOCH


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Building: CO. WICKLOW, BELLEVUE (DELGANY)
Date: 1766
Nature: Octagon. Gothic building of rustic masonry, with kitchen and lesser offices on ground floor and little drawing on upper floor.  Contained 2 'well devised deceptions': window glazed with mirror to give appearance of an inner room;  door which concealed occasional fireplace.
Refs: 'A descriptive view of the Glen of the Downs, 1773' in NLI, R.D. Walshe cuttings and notes on Co. Wicklow, MS. 14,044;  John Ferrar, A view of ancient and modern Dublin, with its improvements to the year 1796. To which is added A tour to Bellevue, in the county of Wicklow, the seat of Peter la Touche, Esq.  (Dublin, 1796), 11; IB 20, 5 May 1878, 146

Building: CO. WICKLOW, TINAHELY, HOUSE AND SHOP
Date: 1781
Nature: Proposed house and shop for Mr Wentworth Pane, Tinahealy.
Refs: Signed and dated design in Sheffield Archives, Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments, WWM/MP/19/1

Building: CO. KILDARE, KILCULLEN, HOUSE
Date: 1782
Nature: Proposed house for Nicholas Kempston, Esq.
Refs: Signed and dated plan and elevation in Sheffield Archives, Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments, WWM/MP/20/1.

Building: CO. WICKLOW, RATHDRUM, FLANNEL HALL
Date: 1792
Nature: EJ draws elevation of same.
Refs: Drawing, 'Elevation of the East or Principal Front of the Woolen Hall building by the Rt. Honble Earl Fitzwilliam in Rathdrum…pr E. Johnston 1792' in Fitzwilliam Papers, Sheffield Archives, WWM/MP/ 221 (slide in IAA) (earlier plans by EJ for same referred to in letter form William Wainwright to Fitzwilliam, 7 Mar 1790, WWM/F/89/123)

Building: CO. WICKLOW, COOLLATTIN HOUSE
Date: 1796ca
Nature: EJ produces designs, for 4th Earl Fitzwilliam.
Refs: NLI, Fitzwilliam papers, MS 4950 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); plans among Fitzwilliam papers in Sheffield Archives (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44).