Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILDARE, ROBERTSTOWN, GRAND CANAL HOTEL

Name: SEMPLE, WILLIAM *
Building: CO. KILDARE, ROBERTSTOWN, GRAND CANAL HOTEL
Date: 1799-1801
Nature: Contract to build same won by WS who failed to finish work and went bankrupt. Work completed by John Semple[2].
Refs: J.M. Hunt, 'New Life for an Irish Waterway', Countrly Life 140, ? Aug 1966, 313; Ruth Delany, The Grand Canal of Ireland (1973), 131-2.

Name: SEMPLE, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. KILDARE, ROBERTSTOWN, GRAND CANAL HOTEL
Date: 1799-1801
Nature: Contract to build same won by William Semple who failed to finish work and went bankrupt. Work completed by John Semple[2].
Refs: Ruth Delany, The Grand Canal of Ireland (1973), 131-2.

Name: OWEN, ENOCH TREVOR
Building: CO. KILDARE, ROBERTSTOWN, GRAND CANAL HOTEL
Date: 1869
Nature: Proposed conversion into RIC Barracks.
Refs: Drawing(s), signed ETO and C. L[anauze] in NA, OPW records, old ref. D.3.15