Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER)

Name: BLORE, EDWARD #
Building: CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER)
Date: 1832-1837
Nature: New castellated mansion for 2nd Earl Erne. Shell built, 1832-1834, by James Henry for c. £13,000. Contractor for inside work: Charles McGibbon, Edinburgh. (Boathouse given to Blore, 1841, in National Trust leaflet, but see also George Sudden.)
Refs: Drawings in IAA, Murray Collection, Nos. 270-288, and Victoria  & Albert Museum, RIBA Drawings Collection, SD90/4(1-3), SC54/11(4-8), see Margaret Richardson, ed., Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects B (RIBA, 1972), 91, and British Architectural Library Catalogue, http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/BvgrEEYUeK/MAIN_CAT/14620059/13 (last visited Apr 2009); copy statement of case with counsel's opinion in dispute with Mr Henry concerning building of Crum Castle. John Creighton Esq., 18 Sep 1834, in PRONI, D1939/16/1A/10 (see PRONI e-catalogue);   Angélique Day & Patrick McWilliams, eds.Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol. 4: Parishes of Co. Fermanagh 1834-5 (1990), 91; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 131; Hugh Dixon, Ulster Architecture 1800-1900 (UAHS, 1972), 10 (no.12, drawing reproduced in plate section); Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 222-3

Name: GILPIN, WILLIAM SAWREY #
Building: CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER)
Date: 1838ca
Nature: Landscaping of demesne, for Abraham Creighton, 2nd Earl Erne.
Refs: Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 224;  Ray Desmond, Dictionary of British & Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists (1994), 280.


Name: SUDDEN, GEORGE
Building: CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER)
Date: 1841;1850ca
Nature: Sudden commissioned by Col. John Creighton, afterwards 3rd Earl of Erne, to rebuild house after fire of 1841 using Blore's specifications. Builder: Charles McGibbon, Edinburgh. Rowan atributes boat house in demesne, to GS but given to Blore and dated 1841 in National Trust leaflet on estate.
Refs: Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 223; Gervase Jackson-Stops, 'Crom Castle, Co. Fermanagh - II', Country Life183, 26 May 1988, 146.

Name: MURRAY, WILLIAM GEORGE
Building: CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER)
Date: 1861
Nature: Addition of extra storey and alterations to E wing, for 3rd Earl Erne.
Refs: Drawings in IAA, Murray Collection, 92/46, no.s292-295 (see Bernadette Goslin, 'A History and descriptive catalogue of the Murray Collection of architectural drawings' (MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1990), 118,119-20).

Name: CRAIG, R.
Building: CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER)
Date: 1861ca
Nature: Proposed addition of bedroom storey at NE corner of castle. For John Crichton, 3rd Earl Erne.
Refs: Part plan and attached note in IAA, Murray Collection, nos. 290,291( see Murray Collection Catalogue, pp.115-120)

Name: HAGUE, WILLIAM [2]
Building: CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER)
Date: 1873;1890
Nature: Addition of extra storey to N wing, 1873. New maids' bedrooms in attic of main block (date?).  New billiard room, 1890. For John Henry Crichton, 3rd Earl Erne.
Refs: PRONI E-catlogue, http://applications.proni.gov.uk/LL_DCAL_PRONI_ECATNI/ResultDetails.aspx, last visited, Nov 2011;  Feargal Tomas Harron, 'William Hague FRIAI: an architectural appraisal', Breifne VIII, no. 32 (1996), 732.

Name: STIRLING, ROBERT JOHN
Building: CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER)
Date: 1886
Nature: Made copy of sections of rooms on S front by Blore.  Does this mean that he was employed there?
Refs: Copies of sections of rooms on S and W fronts drawn by Blore in PRONI, D1939/2/23/12D,13C,98,99B (see PRONI e-catalogue).

Name: BRADBURY, EDWIN
Building: CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER)
Date: 1913
Nature: Refitting and remodelling farm building. For 4th Earl Erne.
Refs: IB 55, 1 Mar 1913, 147

Name: BURN, WILLIAM #
Building: CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER)
Date: ?
Nature: Unexecuted design for mansion, for 2nd Earl Erne
Refs: Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects B (1972), 164

Name: PEARCE, EDWARD LOVETT (SIR)
Building: CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER)
Date: ?
Nature: Proposed two storey hexagonal building 'For Mr Creighton to be built on a Sunk Island in Lough Hern'.
Refs: Unsigned undated drawing in V & A, Elton Hall Collection (see Howard Colvin and Maurice Craig, Architectural Drawings in the library of Elton Hall by Sir John Vanbrugh and Sir Edward Lovett Pearce (1964), 16 (no.110), Pl.72b); Maurice Craig, 'Sir Edward Lovett Pearce', BIGS (Jan-Jun 1974), 13; Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster (1979), 223

Name: PLAYFAIR, WILLIAM HENRY #
Building: CO. FERMANAGH, CROM CASTLE (NEWTOWNBUTLER)
Date: ?
Nature: 'Asked for plans for Crom'. For 2nd Earl Erne.
Refs: NLI, MS 1658 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44).