Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

English artist turned landscape gardener and author of Practical Hints upon Landscape Gardening: with some remarks on Domestic Architecture, as connected with scenery (1832; second edition, 1835), for whom see Oxford DNB and Wikipedia.  William Sawrey Gilpin was widely employed throughout the Bristish Isles; in Ireland he worked for the second Earl of Caledon at Caledon, Co. Tyrone, in 1829, for Lord Caledon's uncle, the eleventh Baron Blayney, at Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan, in 1832, and for Abraham Creighton, 2nd Earl Erne at Crom Castle, Co. Fermanagh, circa 1838.(1)

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(1) Ray Desmond, Dictionary of British & Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists (1994), 280.


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Building: CO. TYRONE, CALEDON HOUSE
Date: 1829
Nature: Designs for terraces on S front for 2nd Earl of Caledon.
Refs: Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 164.

Building: CO. MONAGHAN, BLAYNEY CASTLE
Date: 1832
Nature: WSG employed by 11th Baron Blayney to design improvements to demesne.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 40,240.

Building: CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER)
Date: 1838ca
Nature: Landscaping of demesne, for Abraham Creighton, 2nd Earl Erne.
Refs: Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 224;  Ray Desmond, Dictionary of British & Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists (1994), 280.