Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MEATH, ARDBRACCAN

Name: CASTLE, RICHARD
Building: CO. MEATH, ARDBRACCAN
Date: 1734p
Nature: Proposed new house. Wings only completed
Refs: Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 113.

Name: BEAUFORT, DANIEL AUGUSTUS (REV.)
Building: CO. MEATH, ARDBRACCAN
Date: 1772-1775
Nature: DAB and Thomas Cooley involved in design, James Wyatt having provided preliminary design in 1773. DAB supervises erection of house. For Henry Maxwell, Bishop of Meath.
Refs: Signed elevation of gates,1772, front and rear elevations and plans (see The Architecture of Ireland in Drawings and Paintings, (NGI, 1975), nos. 9,10) in collection of David Maher, Ardbraccan (formerly in Farnham Collection, NLI); Georgian Society Records V, 98; J.N. Brewer, The Beauties of Ireland (1825 & 1826), II, 189;  C. C. Ellison, 'Remembering Dr Beaufort', BIGS 18 (Jan-Mar 1975), 13-14;  C.C. Ellison, The Hopeful Traveller (1987), 90; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 113-4.

Name: COOLEY, THOMAS
Building: CO. MEATH, ARDBRACCAN
Date: 1772-1775
Nature: TC and Rev. Daniel Beaufort involved in design, James Wyatt having provided preliminary design in 1773
Refs: Drawings (formerly in Farnham Collection, NLI) in collection of David Maher, Ardbraccan (see The Architecture of Ireland in Drawings and Paintings, (NGI, 1975), nos. 11,12); details of vestibule and study in Cooley sketchbook in collection of Earl of Caledon; Architecture in Ireland (Catalogue, 1975), nos. 4,5,11,12; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 113-114

Name: WYATT, JAMES #
Building: CO. MEATH, ARDBRACCAN
Date: 1773-1776
Nature: Design of central block, for Henry Maxwell, Bishop of Meath. Erected in simpler form under supervision of Rev. Daniel Beaufort.
Refs: Signed elevation dated 1773 (repr. in The Architecture of Ireland in drawings & paintings (NGI, 1975), no. 6) and plan of principal floor, (rept. loc. cit., no. 8) in collection of David Maher, Ardbraccan (formerly in Farnham Collection, NLI);  J.N. Brewer, The Beauties of Ireland  II (1826), 189;  Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 113-4; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 1183;  John Martin Robinson, James Wyatt: architect to George III (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012),116.

Name: BOGGS, ALEXANDER
Building: CO. MEATH, ARDBRACCAN
Date: 1776
Nature: AB engaged as clerk of works by Henry Maxwell, Bishop of Meath,  on recommendation of Sir James Caldwell.
Refs: John Rylands Library, Manchester, Bagshawe MSS B 3/10/426-481

Name: BROWNRIGG, JAMES
Building: CO. MEATH, ARDBRACCAN
Date: 1800
Nature: Survey of stable yards and kitchen offices and farm yards in wings showing proposed alterations. Perhaps by JB. For Thomas Lewis O'Beirne, Bishop of Meath.
Refs: 2 plans, signed Js:[?] Brownrigg/1800 in IAA, Guinness collection, Acc. 96/068.

Name: HENRY, DAVID
Building: CO. MEATH, ARDBRACCAN
Date: 1824
Nature: DH designs? and executes work at same.
Refs: NA/SPO CSORP 1825/12,887 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44). (Application by DH to succeed Johnston as architect to Board of Works); detail drawing of ceiling rose at Ardbraccan, signed and dated 'H,M & MacM', June 1824, in IAA, Guinness Collection, Acc. 96/68.5/4/3.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. MEATH, ARDBRACCAN
Date: ?
Nature: Elevation and plan of 3-bay Adamesque design (unexecuted) with enfilade of square entrance hall, elliptacal stairhall and circular saloon on central axis. Thought by Rowan & Casey to be a proposal for Ardbraccan for Henry Maxwell, Bishop of Meath.
Refs: Unsigned, undated drawing from Farnham Collection, NLI, sold at auction by HOK Fine Art, 17 Jun 2004, Lot 275 (now in collection of David Maher, Ardbraccan?); Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 114.