Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILKENNY, SHANKILL CASTLE

Name: BUTLER, WILLIAM DEANE
Building: CO. KILKENNY, SHANKILL CASTLE
Date: 1854
Nature: Proposed additions, for James Aylward.
Refs: 2 sheets of plans &c in IAA, Acc. 90/74 (photographed)

Name: PAXTON, JOSEPH (SIR) #
Building: CO. KILKENNY, SHANKILL CASTLE
Date: 1861
Nature: Conservatory opening from drawing room, for James Kearney Aylward. (Removed 1961)
Refs: Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 258

Name: ROBERTSON, DANIEL
Building: CO. KILKENNY, SHANKILL CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: Addition of gatehouse to existing gateway (by Daniel Robertson?), for James Aylward. Gateway attr. to DR by Williams.
Refs: Frederick O'Dwyer, '"Modelled Muscularity": Daniel Robertson's Tudor mansions', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 15 (1999), 92(illus.),93;  J. Williams, Companion guide to Architecture in Ireland 1837-1921 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press,1994), 249.

Name: ROBERTSON, WILLIAM
Building: CO. KILKENNY, SHANKILL CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: By William Robertson? Also early part of Gothic gateway? (Burke's |Vistations| (1855) says that house was 'renovated and improved' by Nicholas Aylward (d. 1832) 'father of the present proprietor'.)
Refs: Attr. (informally) by Knight of Glin to WR; perspective view inscr. by J.G. Robertson repr.Crookshank & Glin, Watercolours of Ireland (1994), 146; J. Williams, Companion guide to Architecture in Ireland 1837-1921 (1994), 249