Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Architect, of London, for whom see Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 (RIBA 2001), I, 183. John Birch exhibited a design for Mourne Park, Co. Down, at the Royal Academy in 1886.(1) He brought out several books of designs for buildings on country estates. In his Picturesque Lodges (1879), he published designs for two lodges and a bridge on the estate of the Earl of Carysfort at Glenart Castle, Co. Wicklow, and for a gate lodge for the Earl of Roden at Tollymore Park, Co. Down.(2) In his Concrete buildings for landed estates in Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1881), he shows designs for labourers' cottages for the Earl of Carysfort at Glenart and for the Earl of Wicklow at Shelton Abbey, Co. Wicklow, and for labourers' cottages and a gate lodge for the Earl of Roden at Tollymore, Co. Down. There are also designs a temperance inn on the Glenart estates in the Vale of Avoca, and for two farm houses and a school with an attached schoolmistress's house in other Irish locations.

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(1) RA 1886, no. 1624.
(2) John Birch, Picturesque Lodges (1879), Pls. 13,14,15.


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Building: CO. DOWN, TOLLYMORE PARK
Date: 1879a
Nature: Gate lodge, for Earl of Roden.
Refs: John Birch, Picturesque Lodges (1879), ?; John Birch, Concrete buildings for landed estates in Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1881), 27-8,Pl.8.

Building: CO. WICKLOW, GLENART CASTLE (FORMERLY KILCARRA CASTLE)
Date: 1879a
Nature: Bridge, for 5th Earl of Carysfort.
Refs: John Birch, Picturesque Lodges (1879), Pl.15

Building: CO. WICKLOW, GLENART CASTLE (FORMERLY KILCARRA CASTLE)
Date: 1879a
Nature: Two gate lodges, for 5th Earl of Carysfort.
Refs: John Birch, Picturesque Lodges (1879), Pls. 13,14

Building: CO. DOWN, TOLLYMORE PARK
Date: 1881A
Nature: Proposed labourers' cottages, for Earl of Roden.
Refs: John Birch, Concrete buildings for landed estates in Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1881), 22,Pl.4

Building: CO. WICKLOW, AVOCA, INN
Date: 1881a
Nature: 'renovation and conversion of an old building [on the Gleart Estate] in the…vale of Ovoca…to meet the requirements of a temperance inn for visitors in the summer months…made for a nobleman possessing large estates in this neighbourhood'. for Earl of Carysfort.
Refs: John Birch, Concrete buildings for landed estates in Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1881),xiv,33,Pl.12

Building: CO. DOWN, MOURNE PARK
Date: 1886
Nature: Design by JB exhibited at RA
Refs: RA 1886, no. 1624

Building: CO. WATERFORD, MOCOLLOP CASTLE, FISHING LODGE
Date: 1892a
Nature: Fishing lodge 'recently built...for a tenant... on a rising ground to the rear of Mocollop Castle' consisting of 'dining-room, library, fishing-tackle and smoking room, two gentlemen's bedrooms, and two servants' bedrooms, bath-room, water-closet, and the usual kitchen offices and appurtenances'. 2-storey with dormer windows and verandah. Local rubble stone, rough-cast, with slate roof.  Cost £900. (In ruins, 2011.)
Refs: John Birch, Examples of Labourers' Cottages, &c. with plans for improving the dwellings of the poor in large towns (William Blackwood: Edinburgh & London, 1892), 37, Pl. 21 (copy in IAA).

Building: CO. WICKLOW, GLENART CASTLE (FORMERLY KILCARRA CASTLE)
Date: ?
Nature: Labourers' cottages for 5th Earl of Carysfort.
Refs: John Birch, Concrete buildings for landed estates in Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1881), ?

Building: CO. WICKLOW, SHELTON ABBEY
Date: ?
Nature: Labourers' cottages for Earl of Wicklow.
Refs: John Birch, Concrete buildings for landed estates in Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1881) 21,Pl.3

Author Title Date Details
Birch, John Picturesque Lodges 1879 London & Edinburgh: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1879.
Birch, John Concrete buildings for landed estates in Great Britain and Ireland 1881 London: T. Pettitt & Co., 1881. (Copy in IAA.)