Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WICKLOW, MOUNT KENNEDY (NEWTOWNMOUNTKENNEDY)

Name: WYATT, JAMES #
Building: CO. WICKLOW, MOUNT KENNEDY (NEWTOWNMOUNTKENNEDY)
Date: 1772
Nature: Designed by JW, 1772, and carried out by Thomas Cooley, c. 1782. For General Robert Cuninghame. (cr. Baron Rossmore, 1796).
Refs: Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn, 2008), 1184, citing drawings in NLI, LR 72884, and John Cornforth, 'Mount Kennedy, Co. Wicklow', Country Life 139, 28 Oct,11 Nov 1965;  John Martin Robinson, James Wyatt (1746-1813) architect to George III (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2012), 106-108, fig. 98.

Name: COOLEY, THOMAS
Building: CO. WICKLOW, MOUNT KENNEDY (NEWTOWNMOUNTKENNEDY)
Date: 1782
Nature: Execution with modifications of design by James Wyatt of 1772.  For General Robert Cuninghame.
Refs: Elevations in IAA, Murray Collection nos. 952-955, and plans in NLI, A.D. 1904,1905, see Murray Collection Catalogue, 286-287; drawings in NLI, Gun Cuninghame Collection, AD 3568;  G.N. Wright, Guide to Co. Wicklow (1822), 47; Drawings from the Irish Architectural Archive (1993), 37(illus.)

Name: JOHNSTON, RICHARD [1]
Building: CO. WICKLOW, MOUNT KENNEDY (NEWTOWNMOUNTKENNEDY)
Date: 1784ca
Nature: Designs attr. to Richard Johston, but nature of RJ's involvement not established.
Refs: Drawings attr. to RJ in IAA, Murray Collection, nos. 952-955; for discussion of attribution, see Murray Collection catalogue pp.286-7.

Name: DE GREE, PETER *#
Building: CO. WICKLOW, MOUNT KENNEDY (NEWTOWNMOUNTKENNEDY)
Date: 1785ca
Nature: 11 roundels in dining room, for Lt. Gen Robert Cuninghame (10 further canvasses originally from 52 Stephen's Gn. moved to Mount Kennedy ca. 1947)
Refs: J. Cornforth, 'Mount Kennedy, Co. Wicklow', Country Life 11 Nov 1965, 1258(illus.)

Name: STAPLETON, MICHAEL *
Building: CO. WICKLOW, MOUNT KENNEDY (NEWTOWNMOUNTKENNEDY)
Date: ?
Nature: Plasterwork in principal rooms attr. to MS. For Maj. Gen. Robert Cunninghame.
Refs: Ceiling design for Mrs Cunninghame's dressing room in NLI, Stapleton Collection, 2293, see Eugenie Carr, 'A catalogue of the Stapleton family collection of Drawings in the National Library of Ireland', unpublished MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1985, 83-4,236,Pl.36; C.P. Curran, Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1967), 84