Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WICKLOW, BLESSINGTON, DOWNSHIRE HOUSE

Name: STAPLETON, MICHAEL *
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BLESSINGTON, DOWNSHIRE HOUSE
Date: 1789ca
Nature: Plasterwork in dining parlour. For Wills Hill, lst Marquess of Downshire.
Refs: PRONI D671 V36D (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); drawings for plasterwork in 'Marquis of Downshire's Dining Parlour' (location not named) in NLI, Stapleton Collection, 2288, 2351, see Eugenie Carr, 'A catalogue of the Stapleton family collection of Drawings in the National Library of Ireland', unpublished MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1985, 23,158,236,Pls11,.56

Name: HARMAN, RICHARD
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BLESSINGTON, DOWNSHIRE HOUSE
Date: 1789ca
Nature: Improvements (to house built by Primate Michael Boyle ante 1678) by RH, for Wills Hill, lst Marquess of Downshire. (House burnt 1798)
Refs: Detail drawing of column 'For the Marques of Downshire's Dining Parlour', s. & d. 'R. Harman, Aug 31st 1789' in NLI, Stapleton Collection 2351, see Eugenie Carr, 'A catalogue of the Stapleton family collection of Drawings in the National Library of Ireland', unpublished MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1985, 158,Pl.56a

Name: PENROSE, THOMAS
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BLESSINGTON, DOWNSHIRE HOUSE
Date: ?
Nature: Improvements for Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire.
Refs: PRONI D607 & D671/v360 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Maurice Craig, The Architecture of Ireland from the earliest times to 1880 (1982), 146;  photograph in IAA Reading Room box files.