Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DERRY, BALLYSCULLION HOUSE

Name: SHANAHAN, MICHAEL [1]
Building: CO. DERRY, BALLYSCULLION HOUSE
Date: 1786-1794
Nature: New house, probably designed by MS on pattern of Belleisle, Lake Windermere. FS laid by Lord Bristol Spring 1787. In progress Apr 1788.
Refs: Possible sketch plan of same in NLI, Stapleton Collection, 22 recto, see Eugenie Carr, 'A catalogue of the Stapleton family collection of drawings in the National Library of Ireland', unpublished MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1985, 195-6;  letter from MS to Lord Bristol, 29 Mar 1787, in PRONI, D2798/2/88 (see PRONI E-catalogue);  Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 15-17 Apr 1788; G. Vaughan Sampson, Statistical Survey of the County of Londonderry (1802), 412-415(illus.); P. Rankin, Irish Building Ventures of the Earl Bishop of Derry (UAHS, 1972), 49-56; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 139

Name: SHANAHAN, MICHAEL [2]
Building: CO. DERRY, BALLYSCULLION HOUSE
Date: 1786-1803
Nature: MS[2] supervises latter stages of works at same
Refs: PRO WO 55/831

Name: MCBLAIN, DAVID
Building: CO. DERRY, BALLYSCULLION HOUSE
Date: 1787-88
Nature: Oversees work at same (also carries out cut stone work?)
Refs: Belfast News Letter, 14-18 Sep 1787 (ref. from C.E.B. Brett); P. Rankin, Irish Building Ventures of the Earl Bishop of Derry (UAHS, 1972), 50,53

Name: LANYON, CHARLES (SIR)
Building: CO. DERRY, BALLYSCULLION HOUSE
Date: 1850ca
Nature: Rowan says 'probably' by CL, for Admiral Sir Henry William Bruce.
Refs: Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 138

Name: MCGUCKIN, ROBERT THOMAS
Building: CO. DERRY, BALLYSCULLION HOUSE
Date: 1939
Nature: Alts., for Harry Mulholland, Speaker of NI House of Commons.
Refs: IB 81, 29 Apr 1939, 368