Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WEXFORD, CASTLEBORO

Name: ROBERTSON, DANIEL
Building: CO. WEXFORD, CASTLEBORO
Date: 1837a;1844ca
Nature: Classical house, largely destroyed by fire c.1839 and rebuilt, incorporating some of earlier house, c.1844. For 1st Baron Carew.
Refs: Frederick O'Dwyer, '"Modelled Muscularity": Daniel Robertson's Tudor mansions', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 15 (1999), 95;  Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 875.


Name: DAY, MARTIN
Building: CO. WEXFORD, CASTLEBORO
Date: 1840ca
Nature: MD executant architect of Daniel Robertson's design, for lst Baron Carew.
Refs: Information from F. O'Dwyer (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); photograph of signed, undated elevation (coll: Mary Sherwood?, a descendant of Day family) in IAA; David Rowe & Eithne Scallan, Houses of Wexford(Ballinakella Press, 2004), no.309(illus.)

Name: MITCHELL, W. M., & SONS
Building: CO. WEXFORD, CASTLEBORO
Date: 1908
Nature: Renovations, for Lord Carew. Contractor: Keatinge, Dublin.
Refs: IB 50, 8 Feb 1908, 85