Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, DONERAILE COURT

Name: ROTHERY, JOHN
Building: CO. CORK, DONERAILE COURT
Date: 1725
Nature: Built by 'Rothery' for 1st Viscount Doneraile, as 2-storey, 7-bay plastered brick house.
Refs: JCHAS (1902), 236; Georgian Society Records (1909-13), V, 82

Name: ROTHERY, ISAAC
Building: CO. CORK, DONERAILE COURT
Date: 1730ca
Nature: Bence Jones says new front 7-bay, 3-storey cut stone front c.1730 'to the design of Isaac Rothery'
Refs: Georgian Society Records (1909-13) III, 4; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 105(illus.)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, DONERAILE COURT
Date: 1776a
Nature: New granary with flue in walls for a fire to air building and dry corn, 'so completely built that not a mouse can possibly get in'. For 1st Baron (later viscount) Doneraile.
Refs: Arthur Young, Tour in Ireland (Dublin, 1780), II, 24

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, DONERAILE COURT
Date: 1825
Nature: Addition of curved, 9-bay conservatory to garden front. For 3rd Viscount Doneraile.
Refs: Anna-Maria Hajba, Houses of Cork I (2002), 144

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, DONERAILE COURT
Date: 1869
Nature: Addition of new wing containing dining room for 4th Viscount Doneraile.. (Demolished c.1977.)
Refs: Anna-Maria Hajba, Houses of Cork I (2002), 144

Name: PATTERSON, BENJAMIN THOMAS
Building: CO. CORK, DONERAILE COURT
Date: 1889;1890
Nature: BTP prepares specifications for plumbing and drainage work, 1889; ?also adds. & alts., 1890. For 2nd Baron Castletown.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0682, B14/49, B15/14 (missing)