Selected: CO. CARLOW, BALLYDARTON
Name: | ROBERTSON, DANIEL |
Building: | CO. CARLOW, BALLYDARTON |
Date: | 1835a |
Nature: | New house built by Samuel Watson of Kilconner, Co. Carlow, for his son, Samuel Watson (1715-1784), described by DR as 'my beautiful, my own Ballydarton...my pride'. |
Refs: | Letter from DR to Henry Faulkner, 16 Feb 1835, in collection of Amy Monahan, Castletown, 1986 (photocopy in IAA); Frederick O'Dwyer, '"Modelled Muscularity": Daniel Robertson's Tudor mansions', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 15 (1999), 88(illus.),92 |