Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MONAGHAN, HILTON PARK

Name: JONES, JAMES [1]
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, HILTON PARK
Date: 1835p
Nature: Proposed portico (not executed). Addition of nursery wing, started shortly after 1835. Dining room. Also stables and colonnaded 'Rides'? For Col. John Madden.
Refs: Signed, undated elevation and plan of portico (and similar unsigned design) in coll. of John Madden, Hilton Park; (photocopy in Irish Architectural Archive, 86/129.1/2); journals of John Madden (1836-1902) in same coll. say that nursery wing 'was admirably bult from the plans of a Mr Jones of Dundalk, an architect and builder'; information from John Madden, Hilton Park;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 353,355,356.

Name: NIVEN, NINIAN
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, HILTON PARK
Date: 1870ca
Nature: Formal gardens and terraces.  NN visited house in Dec 1870.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 356


Name: LANYON, CHARLES (SIR)
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, HILTON PARK
Date: 1871
Nature: CL visits house re rebuilding of house destroyed by fire in 1803 (but William Hague chosen as architect for same). Client: John Madden.
Refs: PRONI Madden MSS, D/3465, see Peter Collins, County Monaghan Sources in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (1998), 117.

Name: HAGUE, WILLIAM [2]
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, HILTON PARK
Date: 1872-75
Nature: Extensive alts., portico, refacing of exterior, excavation of ground round basement, &c., for John Madden.
Refs: Set of signed drawings, some dated or postmaked 1872,1873, 1874, at Hilton Park (photographs and handlist in IAA);   letters from WH to John Madden, 1872-75 in Madden MSS in PRONI D3465/J/20 (see PRONI e-catalogue); Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 153; Feargal Tomas Harron, 'William Hague FRIAI: an architectural appraisal', Breifne VIII, no. 32 (1996), 722-726(illus.);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 352-356, Pl.99.

Name: FITZPATRICK & MOLLOY *
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, HILTON PARK
Date: 1873ca
Nature: Carved capitals for porte cochère.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 354


Name: MONTGOMERY, ROBERT #
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, HILTON PARK
Date: 1875ca
Nature: Carved coat of arms in pediment for £10.10s., for John Madden, who thought the work 'badly done'.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 354.

Name: SIBTHORPE, HENRY & SON *
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, HILTON PARK
Date: 1877ca
Nature: Encaustic tiles in entrance hall supplied by HS & Son, for John Madden
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 354.

Name: MAYER & CO. *#
Building: CO. MONAGHAN, HILTON PARK
Date: 1878
Nature: Heraldic stained glass in stair hall. Installed by Walter Wells in 1878.
Refs: Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 355