Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KERRY, MUCKROSS HOUSE (KILLARNEY)

Name: VULLIAMY, LEWIS #
Building: CO. KERRY, MUCKROSS HOUSE (KILLARNEY)
Date: 1836-7
Nature: Adds. at 'Muckross Estate, Killarney' for H. Herbert on list of V's work in Builder. (Are these proposals for main house, which was rebuilt to designs by William Burn, 1839-43, or possibly cottage near lake built for H.Herbert mentioned in Tourists' Illustrated Handbook (1854), 114?)
Refs: B 29, 25 Feb 1871, 142

Name: BURN, WILLIAM #
Building: CO. KERRY, MUCKROSS HOUSE (KILLARNEY)
Date: 1839-1843
Nature: New Jacobethan style house, for Rt. Hon. Henry Arthur Herbert.
Refs: Presentation perspective view by Burn in National Monuments Record of Scotland, Acc. 1980/19; 3 plans and 2 sketch elevations, 1939, in Victoria & Albert Museum, RIBA Drawings Collection, SD102/ pp.26-27, 30, Vol.I , see Margaret Richardson, ed., Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects: B (RIBA, 1972),138, and British Architectural Library Catalogue, http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/7wo0kHdTAJ/MAIN_CAT/200680089/9 (last visited Apr 2009);  Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn, 2008), 192;  G. Wilkinson, Geology & Ancient Architecture in Ireland (1845), 85; Dictionary of Scottish Architects, www.scottisharchitects.org.uk (last visited Apr 2009).

Name: BRYCE, DAVID #
Building: CO. KERRY, MUCKROSS HOUSE (KILLARNEY)
Date: 1839-1843;1853
Nature: Minor additions, 1853, to house designed by William Burn, 1939-1843..
Refs: V. Fiddes & A. Rowan, Mr David Bryce (University of Edinburgh, 1976), 127; www.scottisharchitects.org.uk

Name: ATKINS, WILLIAM
Building: CO. KERRY, MUCKROSS HOUSE (KILLARNEY)
Date: 1857
Nature: Gates, farm, church, porte cochère, for Col Henry Herbert. Gates executed by Perrot, Cork. Church built by Evans.
Refs: Irish Times, 28 Dec 1860;  DB 3, 1 Jan 1861, 387;  Irish Times, 28 Dec 1860;  Jeremy Williams, 'William Atkins 1812-1887, a forgotten Cork Pre-Raphaelite' in A. Bernelle (ed.), Decantations: a tribute to Maurice Craig (1992), 244,249

Name: ATKINS, WILLIAM
Building: CO. KERRY, MUCKROSS HOUSE (KILLARNEY)
Date: 1867
Nature: Irish high cross on estate in memory of Henry Herbert. Contractor: Scannell.
Refs: IB 9, 15 Dec 1867, 328; Jeremy Williams, 'William Atkins 1812-1887, a forgotten Cork Pre-Raphaelite' in A. Bernelle (ed.), Decantations: a tribute to Maurice Craig (1992), 244,249.