Selected: CO. GALWAY, PORTUMNA CASTLE (OLD)
Name: | PAPWORTH, GEORGE |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, PORTUMNA CASTLE (OLD) |
Date: | 1824-26 |
Nature: | Renovations to early 17th century fortified house. House destroyed by fire, 1826, while work in progress. |
Refs: | B 13, 31 Mar 1855, 150; APSD, P, 40; Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (1997), 375 |
Name: | BILSON, JOHN # |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, PORTUMNA CASTLE (OLD) |
Date: | 1916ca |
Nature: | Bilson commissioned by Henry, Viscount Lascelles, to prepare scheme (unexecuted) for re-edification of house within old walls. |
Refs: | Maurice Craig, 'Portumna Castle', in The Country Seat: studies in the History of the British Country House (1970), 36-40. |