| Name: |
PEARCE, EDWARD LOVETT (SIR) |
| Building: |
CO. CAVAN, CABRA (KINGSCOURT) |
| Date: |
? |
| Nature: |
Early 18th c. pedimented villa for Mervyn Pratt, cousin of ELP. 'Knight of Glin considers it to have been almost certainly by Sir Edward Lovett Pearce' (Bence-Jones) while Mulligan also attributes the 'small sophisticated villa', described by Mrs Delany as a 'little commodious lodge...where Mr Prat lived whilst his house [Fleming's Castle] was repairing', to ELP. (NB. not to be confused with Cabra Castle, on the other side of the river.)
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| Refs: |
Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 52; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 403-4(illus.).
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