Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WEXFORD, JOHNSTOWN CASTLE

Name: HOPPER, THOMAS #
Building: CO. WEXFORD, JOHNSTOWN CASTLE
Date: 1810?
Nature: Principal staircase attributed to Hopper by Lacy.
Refs: Thomas Lacy, Home Sketches (1852), cited by P. Bowe, '"The Science of Elegant Luxury": Johnstown Castle', Irish Arts Review17 (2001), 157 (Frederick O'Dwyer, '"Modelled Muscularity": Daniel Robertson's Tudor mansions', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 15 (1999), 95, who attributes staircase to Daniel Robertson, says that Norman remodelling of Johnstown 'reputedly started as early as 1810')

Name: ROBERTSON, DANIEL
Building: CO. WEXFORD, JOHNSTOWN CASTLE
Date: 1836
Nature: Gothicization and enlargement for H.K. Grogan Morgan, assisted by Martin Day.
Refs: Signed drawings, dated 1836, in collection of OPW in 1961 (see Connoisseur May, 1961, 283); Frederick O'Dwyer, '"Modelled Muscularity": Daniel Robertson's Tudor mansions', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 15 (1999), 94), 91,94

Name: DAY, MARTIN
Building: CO. WEXFORD, JOHNSTOWN CASTLE
Date: 1846
Nature: Designs for west (labelled) north front and battlemented gateway in demesne.(?By MD as executant architect for Daniel Robertson) For H.K. Grogan-Morgan.
Refs: Signed dated elevations in collection of Mary Sherwood, Enniscorthy (descendant of Martin Day)(photographs in IAA, neg.C7/120,122; elevation of W front repr. Frederick O'Dwyer, '"Modelled Muscularity": Daniel Robertson's Tudor mansions', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 15 (1999), 94))

Name: PAIN, JAMES
Building: CO. WEXFORD, JOHNSTOWN CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: Proposed new front (3-storey, symmetrical, Gothic, with stepped battlements)
Refs: 'Copy of a Design for new front to Johnstown Castle by Pain' by Sandham Symes in collection of William Harvey (a descendant of Sandham Symes), 86 Beechwood Drive, Broomhill, Glasgow;

Name: CONNOR, PATRICK *
Building: CO. WEXFORD, JOHNSTOWN CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: Decorative plasterwork.
Refs: Thomas Lacey, Sights and Scenes in our Fatherland (London, 1863), 422-3 (information from Rolf Loeber, Feb 2012).