Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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.