Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, SHANE'S CASTLE

Name: SUTHERLAND, JOHN
Building: CO. ANTRIM, SHANE'S CASTLE
Date: 1814
Nature: Grounds designed by JS for 2nd Viscount O'Neill..
Refs: Keith Lamb & Patrick Bowe, A History of Gardening in Ireland (National Botanic Gardens, 1995), 46

Name: PAPWORTH, JOHN BUONAROTTI #
Building: CO. ANTRIM, SHANE'S CASTLE
Date: 1815
Nature: Proposed park entrance 'designed agreeably to the style of the mansion, the residence of Lord O'Neil, Ireland'.
Refs: Design exh. RA 1815, no. 824

Name: NASH, JOHN
Building: CO. ANTRIM, SHANE'S CASTLE
Date: 1816ca
Nature: New house for 2nd Viscount O'Neill to replace one destroyed by fire, 1816. Only partially completed.
Refs: Pictorial elevation of house and conservatory in collection of Christopher Stephen Gaisford-St Lawrence, Howth Castle; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn, 2008), 736 Michael Mansbridge, John Nash (1991), 180-181(illus.)

Name: HOPPER, THOMAS #
Building: CO. ANTRIM, SHANE'S CASTLE
Date: 1816p
Nature: TH acts as arbitrator between Lord O'Neill and Nash.
Refs: Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 541n

Name: LUGAR, ROBERT #
Building: CO. ANTRIM, SHANE'S CASTLE
Date: 1840?
Nature: RL exh. 'design for a house in the castle style for the Rt Hon the Earl O'Neill in the County of Antrim'.(i.e. ?Shanes Castle, for 1st Earl O'Neill; possibly a design dating from much earlier in RL's career)
Refs: RA 1840, no. 928

Name: LANYON, LYNN & LANYON
Building: CO. ANTRIM, SHANE'S CASTLE
Date: 1861a
Nature: New house with tower, 'just being completed on the site of the old structure', Oct 1861. Contractor: James Henry, Belfast. (Burnt out by IRA, 20 May 1922.)
Refs: Irish Times, 5 Oct 1861;  C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of County Antrim (UAHS, 1996), 71.

Name: LYNN, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. ANTRIM, SHANE'S CASTLE
Date: 1901
Nature: Billiard room for 2nd Baron O'Neill.
Refs: H. Dixon, 'William Henry Lynn', BIGS 17 (Jan-Jun 1974), 29, citing PRONI 1898/1/37

Name: PEDDIE, JOHN FINLAY
Building: CO. ANTRIM, SHANE'S CASTLE
Date: 1911
Nature: Sanitary alts., for Lord O'Neill.
Refs: IB 53, 2 Sep 1911, 602