Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WILLIAM STREET SOUTH, NO. 059 (POWERSCOURT HOUSE)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: MCDONAGH, IGNATIUS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WILLIAM STREET SOUTH, NO. 059 (POWERSCOURT HOUSE)
Date: 1770s
Nature: Carving in new house, notably staircase balustrade. For Richard, 3rd Viscount Powerscourt.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),510.

Name: MACK, ROBERT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WILLIAM STREET SOUTH, NO. 059 (POWERSCOURT HOUSE)
Date: 1771
Nature: For Richard, 3rd Viscount Powerscourt; designed by, and executed under the inspection of RM.
Refs: Robert Pool & John Cash, Views…in the City of Dublin (1780), 112-113(illus.); MS builder's day book in NLI (information from David Griffin; see Georgian Society Records (1909-13), I, 15.);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 35(illus.),509.

Name: MCCULLAGH, JAMES *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WILLIAM STREET SOUTH, NO. 059 (POWERSCOURT HOUSE)
Date: 1774a
Nature: Decorative plasterwork throughout house, notably stair hall and study.  Assistant: Michael Reynolds.
Refs: Georgian Society Records I, 16; C.P. Curran, Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1967), 75;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 509-10.

Name: STAPLETON, MICHAEL *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WILLIAM STREET SOUTH, NO. 059 (POWERSCOURT HOUSE)
Date: 1777-1780
Nature: Stucco work of principal reception rooms, probably executed in late 1770s. For 3rd Viscount Powerscourt.
Refs: C.P. Curran, 'Michael Stapleton: Dublin Stuccodore', Studies 28, no. 111 (Sep 1939), 441; C.P. Curran, Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1967), 79; unsigned, undated drawing in NLI, Stapleton Collection, 2303,2353, see Eugenie Carr, 'A catalogue of the Stapleton family collection of Drawings in the National Library of Ireland', unpublished MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1985, 54-56,79,235,Pls.23,33;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 510.

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WILLIAM STREET SOUTH, NO. 059 (POWERSCOURT HOUSE)
Date: 1807-1811
Nature: Conversion of Powerscourt House into Stamp Office, including extensions at rear (i.e. 3 sides of courtyard).
Refs: Drawings in IAA, Murray Collection, nos. 816-821 (see Murray Collection catalogue, pp. 244-5; 'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 3;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 511.


Name: DARLEY, FREDERICK [1]*
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WILLIAM STREET SOUTH, NO. 059 (POWERSCOURT HOUSE)
Date: 1810
Nature: Stonework for conversion of Powerscourt House into Stamp Office to designs by Francis Johnston.  Measured by Stitt, 1810.
Refs: Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/128

Name: SIBTHORPE, HENRY & SON *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WILLIAM STREET SOUTH, NO. 059 (POWERSCOURT HOUSE)
Date: ?
Nature: Proposed colour scheme for back drawing room ceiling.
Refs: Painting in IAA, Sibthorpe Collection Acc. 78/22.A20