Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DERRY, PREHEN

Name: PRIESTLEY, MICHAEL
Building: CO. DERRY, PREHEN
Date: 1745?
Nature: 'robust early Georgian classical house, reputedly dated 1745, and marked with the initials MP on an attic rafter'. MP's 'personal style is stamped all over the design'.
Refs: Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 44,405

Name: FARRELL, WILLIAM
Building: CO. DERRY, PREHEN
Date: ?
Nature: Proposal for 'house for Hon. George Knox' (?Prehen). 3-bay, 2-storey, Gothic, with label mouldings and ornate string course.
Refs: Plans and elevations in William Farrell album, Houghton Library, Harvard University (ref: RAN 1/N/4) nos. 49-52; see John Harris, A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture and Landscape Gardening 1550-1900 in American Collections (1971), 97.