Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, PARADE, KILKENNY CASTLE

Name: VIERPYL, CHARLES
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, PARADE, KILKENNY CASTLE
Date: 1780s?
Nature: 'Built to designs attributable to an obscure architect by the name of Charles Vierpyl'
Refs: An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of County Kilkenny (Nastional Inventory of Architectural Heritage, 2006), 33

Name: ROBERTSON, WILLIAM
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, PARADE, KILKENNY CASTLE
Date: 1802
Nature: Carpenter's work ordered by 'Mr Robinson' measured by Bryan Bolger, Nov 1802.. For Earl of Ormonde.
Refs: WE.McP files, citing Bryan Bolger notebook, NLI MS. 10,711(1)

Name: ROBERTSON, WILLIAM
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, PARADE, KILKENNY CASTLE
Date: 1826
Nature: New wing, enlargement of towers, gothicization, for James Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde.
Refs: Drawings in IAA, Acc. 80/35 (elevations repr. D.J. Griffin and S. Lincoln, Drawings from the Irish Architectural Archive (1993), 56); Dublin Penny Journal, 8 Sep 1832, 81; Ireland Illustrated (1829), 34 (cited in APSD, R, 52; Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (1997), 341-344,345(illus.)

Name: NIVEN, NINIAN
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, PARADE, KILKENNY CASTLE
Date: 1852
Nature: Unexecuted proposal for parterre in front of courtyard, for John, 2nd Marquess of Ormonde, who died before it could be carried out.
Refs: Design in IAA, Ormonde Loan Collection, 77/9.83; E. Malins & P. Bowe, Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830 (1980), 38

Name: DEANE, SON & WOODWARD
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, PARADE, KILKENNY CASTLE
Date: 1859-1863
Nature: Extensive improvements; re-roofing of picture gallery, grand staircase For Marchioness of Ormonde.
Refs: Drawings in IAA, Ormonde Collection, 77/9.1-29,35,40,46,47,56,57,63,68,69,71,72; IAA, PKS A03 (Oct 1860, p.40v); DB 1, 1 Aug 1859, 103; 3, 15 Feb 1861, 436; 7, 15 Jun 1865, 147; drawing exh. Dublin International Exhibition of Art and Manufactures, 1865, no. 141; Eve Blau, Ruskinian Gothic (1982), 71,151-3,pls.153-158; Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (Cork University Press, 1997), 296,340-349(illus.)

Name: COCKBURN, GILBERT [1] *
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, PARADE, KILKENNY CASTLE
Date: 1860
Nature: Estimated cost of GC's tender for grand stair, £760.
Refs: IAA, A03 (Oct 1860)

Name: POLLEN, JOHN HUNGERFORD #
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, PARADE, KILKENNY CASTLE
Date: 1861-62
Nature: Proposed flower garden, for Dowager Marchioness of Ormonde.
Refs: Unsigned but attributable drawings in IAA, Ormonde Loan Collection, Acc.0077/009; Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (1997), 347,588nn

Name: POLLEN, JOHN HUNGERFORD #
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, PARADE, KILKENNY CASTLE
Date: 1861-62
Nature: Wall and ceiling decoration and chimneypiece in picture gallery, for Dowager Marchioness of Ormonde.
Refs: 2 undated detail designs in RIBA Drawings Collection (see see Jill Lever, ed., Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects O-R (1974), 84); Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (1997), 292,347,588n

Name: POLLEN, JOHN HUNGERFORD #
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, PARADE, KILKENNY CASTLE
Date: 1861-62
Nature: Painted decoration of Great Gallery and design for gallery chimneypiece (executed by Ballantine, 11 Dorset St, Dublin).
Refs: 2 watercolour designs for same ('Golden Age' for roof, 'Reading Girl' for wall) exh. Dublin International International Exhibition of Art & Manufactures, 1865, nos. 17,33; Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (1997), 346(illus.),347,588 n.162; for coloured photograph of detal of roof decoration, see Kilkenny Castle(National Parks & Monuments Service, n.d.), 13(illus.)

Name: HARRISON, CHARLES WILLIAM *
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, PARADE, KILKENNY CASTLE
Date: 1862
Nature: Unspecified carving (but not Picture Gallery chimneypiece).
Refs: Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (1997), 588,n.162

Name: POLLEN, JOHN HUNGERFORD #
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, PARADE, KILKENNY CASTLE
Date: 1862ca
Nature: Design for flower garden.
Refs: Unsigned, undated designs attributable to JHP in IAA, Ormonde Loan Collection, Acc. 77.9.80-82; E. Malins & P. Bowe, Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830 (1980), 45; Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (1997), 346(illus.),347,588, n.163