Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILDARE, CASTLETOWN

Name: GALILEI, ALESSANDRO #
Building: CO. KILDARE, CASTLETOWN
Date: 1718
Nature: Proposed design by AG which may have been used when house was erected under direction of Edward Lovett Pearce in 1722.
Refs: M. Craig & the Knight of Glin, 'Castletown, Co. Kildare', Country Life 145, 27 Mar 1969, 722-726; E. Kieven, 'Galilei in England', Country Life 153, 25 Jan 1973, 210-212

Name: PEARCE, EDWARD LOVETT (SIR)
Building: CO. KILDARE, CASTLETOWN
Date: 1722-173?
Nature: ELP involved in some way in the building of same for Thomas Conolly.
Refs: Sketch plan of hall, plan of house and profile of cornice, all unsigned and undated and not necessarily in ELP's hand, in 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), 3 (no.13),14 (no.99),36(no.245), pls.69a,69b)

Name: LEINSTER, JAMES, 1ST DUKE OF
Building: CO. KILDARE, CASTLETOWN
Date: 1759-1777
Nature: Had considerable influence on alts. and adds. undertaken by Lady Louis Conolly from 1759 onwards.
Refs: David Griffin, 'Castletown, Co. Kildare: the contribution of James, First Duke of Leinster', BIGS, 1998, ref. to come.

Name: LAFRANCHINI, FILIPPO *
Building: CO. KILDARE, CASTLETOWN
Date: 1759;1765;1774
Nature: Decoration of stairhall for Thomas Conolly. Also at Castletown in 1765 and 1774
Refs: Carlo Palumbo-Fossati, Gli Stuccatori Ticinesi Lafranchini in Inghilterra e in Irlanda nel Secolo XVIII (Fondazione Ticino Nostro, Lugano, 1982), 77-79, Pl. 66; Accounts in Conolly Papers on deposit in IAA, Acc. 97/84.

Name: VIERPYL, SIMON *
Building: CO. KILDARE, CASTLETOWN
Date: 1759;1766
Nature: May have acted for Chambers in creation of Gallery, 1759. Paid for work on staircase, 1766.
Refs: Brian Fitzgerald, Correspondence of Emily, Duchess of Leinster (Vol. 3, 1957), 23; John Harris, Sir William Chambers (1970), 101. E.McP files, citing TCD MS 3963

Name: CHAMBERS, WILLIAM (SIR) #
Building: CO. KILDARE, CASTLETOWN
Date: 1760ca
Nature: Decoration of Long Gallery, ?& other rooms; for Thomas Conolly. Gates taken from Lord Burlington's design for gates at Chiswick as published by Chambers in his Treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture..
Refs:  William Chambers, A Treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture (1st edn., 1759), 63(illus.);  John Harris, Sir William Chambers (London, 1970), 201;  Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 242 ;.

Name: CRANFIELD, RICHARD *
Building: CO. KILDARE, CASTLETOWN
Date: 1768a
Nature: All woodwork for drawing room supplied in carved lengths by Richard Cranfield.
Refs: Christopher Moore, 'Lady Louisa Conolly: Mistress of Castletown 1759-1821' in New Perspectives: studies in art history in honour of Anne Crookshank (1987), 129, citing Trinity College Dublin Conolly Manuscripts 3694.

Name: DEANE, THOMAS NEWENHAM (SIR)
Building: CO. KILDARE, CASTLETOWN
Date: 1871
Nature: Conversion of first floor of stable wing into bachelors' apartments. Attr. to TND by J. Williams & F. O'Dwyer. Fireplaces dated 1871
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Name: CIPRIANI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA #
Building: CO. KILDARE, CASTLETOWN
Date: ?
Nature: Work at same attr. to GBC (but no proof of this)..
Refs: Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England 1537-1837 (1962,1970), Vol. II, 185-190

Name: DARLEY, FREDERICK [2]
Building: CO. KILDARE, CASTLETOWN
Date: ?
Nature: Unexecuted scheme for glazed court and billiard room behind stable wing.
Refs: Drawings in collection of Irish Georgian Society, Castletown House