Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, MALLOW CASTLE

Name: BLORE, EDWARD #
Building: CO. CORK, MALLOW CASTLE
Date: 1837
Nature: Assisted (or was consulted by) Denham Jephson (Sir Charles Denham Orlando Jephson-Norreys from 1838) re designs for rebuilding same.
Refs: Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn, 2008), 132, citing design for adding a tower, 1837, in Cambridge University Library, Add. MS. 3956, f.49; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 199-200(illus); Anna-Maria Hajba, Houses of Cork I (2002), 255-6(illus.)

Name: JEPHSON-NORREYS, CHARLES DENHAM ORLANDO (SIR)
Building: CO. CORK, MALLOW CASTLE
Date: 1837-1843p
Nature: Said to have acted as his own architect for rebuilding house. Consulted or was assisted by Edward Blore. House described by Burke as 'a noble edifice in the genuine Elizabethan style…picturesque in the extreme' and by Bence-Jones as 'a remarkably convincing reproduction of vernacular late C16 or early C17 architecture'.
Refs: J.R. O’Flanagan, The Blackwater in Munster (1844), 138; J.B. Burke, Visitation of Seats and Arms (2nd ser., 1855), II, 37; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 199-200(illus); Anna-Maria Hajba, Houses of Cork I (2002), 255-6(illus.)