Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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