Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILKENNY, GOWRAN CASTLE

Name: ROBERTSON, WILLIAM
Building: CO. KILKENNY, GOWRAN CASTLE
Date: 1816-19
Nature: New classical house replacing earlier building, for 2nd Viscount Clifden.
Refs: J.N. Brewer, Beauties of Ireland I (1825), 463; J.P. Neale, Views of Seats, 2nd ser. III (IX), 1826, no. 60; APSD, R, 52; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 144,145(illus.)

Name: MURRAY, WILLIAM GEORGE
Building: CO. KILKENNY, GOWRAN CASTLE
Date: 1855-56
Nature: Forester's lodge in Elizabethan Revival style, for Henry Agar, 3rd Viscount Clifden. Contractor: John J. Nolan.
Refs: Drawings in IAA, Murray Collection, 92/46, nos. 867-878 (see Bernadette Goslin, 'A History and descriptive catalogue of the Murray Collection of architectural drawings' (MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1990), 260-262)

Name: FRASER, JAMES
Building: CO. KILKENNY, GOWRAN CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: Proposed extension to park, for Lord Clifden.
Refs: Drawing in NLI; Edward Malins & Patrick Bowe, Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830(1980), 28