Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WESTMEATH, WILSON'S HOSPITAL (MULTYFARNHAM)

Name: PENTLAND, HENRY
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, WILSON'S HOSPITAL (MULTYFARNHAM)
Date: 1759-1761
Nature: Perhaps by HP? (Attributed by M. Craig to John Pentland, but too early for him.  Possibly John Pentland was the architect who restored the building after damage in the 1798 rebellion.)
Refs: M. Craig, The Personality of Leinster (1961), 52;  M. Craig, The Architecture of Ireland from the earliest times to 1880 (London & Dublin, 1982), 191 (see also Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 533; E. McParland, Public Architecture in Ireland: 1680-1760 (2001), 172.