Selected: CO. KILKENNY, DESART COURT
| Name: | PEARCE, EDWARD LOVETT (SIR) |
| Building: | CO. KILKENNY, DESART COURT |
| Date: | 1733ca |
| Nature: | 'built ca 1733 for John Cuffe, 1st Lord Desart, almost certainly to the design of Sir Edward Lovett Pearce'. On Craig's 'list of candidates for buildings in some way connected to Pearce'. |
| Refs: | Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 103(illus.); Maurice Craig, 'The quest for Sir Edward Lovett Pearce', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 12 (1996), 33. (House fully described and illus. in Georgian Society Records (1909-13), V (1915), 55ff.) |
| Name: | ORPEN, RICHARD FRANCIS CAULFEILD |
| Building: | CO. KILKENNY, DESART COURT |
| Date: | 1923p |
| Nature: | Rebuilding, for Lady Kathleen Milborne-Swinnerton-Pilkington, after house was burnt out, 1923. Heating and lighting by Maguire & Gatchell, Dublin. Later demolished. |
| Refs: | IB 68, 16 Oct 1926, 788; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 103 |