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 |