Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WEXFORD, EDERMINE

Name: KEANE, JOHN BENJAMIN
Building: CO. WEXFORD, EDERMINE
Date: 1840
Nature: JBK exhibits design of house for J. Power, MP, DL, at RHA.
Refs: RHA 1840, no. 346; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 118(illus.); David Rowe & Eithne Scallan, Houses of Wexford (Ballinakella Press, 2004), no. 454(illus.)

Name: TURNER, RICHARD *
Building: CO. WEXFORD, EDERMINE
Date: 1850ca
Nature: Conservatory.
Refs: E.J. Diestelkamp, 'Richard Turner (c.1798-1881)and his glasshouses', Glasra 5 (1981), 52

Name: NIVEN, NINIAN
Building: CO. WEXFORD, EDERMINE
Date: ?
Nature: Gardens, for Sir James Power, Bt.
Refs: E. Malins & P. Bowe, Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830 (1980), 39

Name: PUGIN, AUGUSTUS WELBY NORTHMORE #
Building: CO. WEXFORD, EDERMINE
Date: ?
Nature: Chapel has been attr. to Pugin on basis of similarity of window to drawings in early notebooks. (NB. James Power was the son-in-law and brother-in-law of John Hyacinth Talbot.)
Refs: Phoebe Stanton, Pugin (1971), 209;  but see also Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 486, who argues in favour of E.W. Pugin.