Selected: CO. KILDARE, OLDTOWN HOUSE
| Name: | BURGH, THOMAS |
| Building: | CO. KILDARE, OLDTOWN HOUSE |
| Date: | 1721? |
| Nature: | Palladian house believed to have been designed by TB for himself on land acquired from 1696 onwards. Only partly completed |
| Refs: | Unsigned, undated elevation of single-storey wing formerly at Oldtown House (with other drawings for ancillary buildings) repr. Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), photograph in IAA Box Files (drawing is annotated by Florinda Gardiner:'Office, Oldtown (now the House) formerly among my father's papers , built I believe in 1721 see back of this paper'); Rolf Loeber, A Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Ireland 1600-1720 (1981), 36. |
| Name: | BUTLER, JOHN GEOFFREY |
| Building: | CO. KILDARE, OLDTOWN HOUSE |
| Date: | 1950s |
| Nature: | Conversion of wing into main house after destruction of latter by fire, for - Burgh. |
| Refs: | Information from John Meagher, Naas, 5 Feb 1996. |