Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE

Name: BROWN, LANCELOT 'CAPABILITY' #
Building: CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE
Date: 1770ca
Nature: Gothic stables, for 1st Vsct. Conyngham
Refs: Drawing in IAA, Murray Collection 1132; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn, 2008), 168.

Name: WYATT, JAMES #
Building: CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE
Date: 1773
Nature: Design for library ceiling. For Henry, 1st Viscount Conyngham..
Refs: Signed drawing dated 1773 in NLI, Wyatt-Penrose album (which contains other designs for hall and interior decoration of Slane Castle); C.P. Curran, Irish Decorative Plasterwork (1967), 74-5;  John Martin Robinson, James Wyatt (1746-1813) architect to George III (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2012), 109.

Name: WYATT, JAMES #
Building: CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE
Date: 1773;1785-86
Nature: Castellated house, for Francis, 2nd Baron Conyngham. Exterior by JW 'but no recognizable Wyatt interiors' (Robinson).
Refs: Elevations, s. & d. Feb 1785, in IAA, Murray Collection, nos. 21-25 (see B. Goslin, 'History and descriptive catalogue of the Murray Collection', MA thesis submitted to NUI, Jan 1990, 316-7); drawings in NLI, Wyatt-Penrose album; design(s) in album of ceiling designs by JW, Metopolitan Museum of Art; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 479-82; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn, 2008), 1185;  John Martin Robinson, James Wyatt (1746-1813) architect to George III (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2012), 109-110, fig.92.

Name: PENROSE, THOMAS
Building: CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE
Date: 177?;1783
Nature: Design for eating parlor entablature (& others). For ? Conyngham. Survey drawings, Apr 1783.
Refs: Signed drawing of 1770s and 2 survey drawings, 1783, in IAA, Murray Collection, Acc. 92/46, nos. 1088,1103,1104; further survey drawings, Apr 1783, in Slane Castle Collection

Name: BROWN, LANCELOT 'CAPABILITY' #
Building: CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE
Date: 1780-1783ca
Nature: Proposed design, ?for 1st Viscount Conyngham (d. 1781).
Refs: Drawings in IAA, Murray Collection 1091-1094.

Name: GANDON, JAMES
Building: CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE
Date: 1781-83
Nature: Proposed alterations for William Burton-Conyngham.
Refs: Designs attr. to JG in IAA, RIAI Murray Collection 1095-1102, for one of these see D.J. Griffin & S. Lincoln, Drawings from the Irish Architectural Archive (IAA, 1993), 36 (no.9, illus.); see E. McParland, James Gandon: Vitruvius Hibernicus (1985), refs. as in index;

Name: ROBINSON, -
Building: CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE
Date: 1783p
Nature: Began altering building; replaced by James Wyatt in 1785. For William Burton Conyngham.
Refs: A.J. Rowan, 'Georgian Castles in Ireland - I', BIGS 7, no. 1 (Jan-Mar 1964), 16-17, and E.McParland, James Gandon (1985), 116-117,196, n39.

Name: STEWART, ALEXANDER *
Building: CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE
Date: 1785ca-1787
Nature: AS handled quarrying of stone for remodelling of same to designs by James Wyatt.
Refs: John H. Gebbie, An Introduction to the Abercorn Letters (Omagh, 1972), 155; E.McP files, citing F. Fergusson (letter and catalogue).

Name: SUTHERLAND, JOHN
Building: CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE
Date: 1787?
Nature: Park laid out by JS. For William Burton Conyngham?
Refs: Keith Lamb & Patrick Bowe, A History of Gardening in Ireland (National Botanic Gardens, 1995), 44 (date given as 1767 by E. Malins & the Knight of Glin, Lost Demesnes: Irish landscape gardening, 1660-1845 (1976), 89)

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE
Date: 1795ca
Nature: Battlemented gateway, for William Burton Conyngham.
Refs: 'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 2; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 482

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE
Date: 1795ca
Nature: Finished hall, staircase and entrance, for William Burton Conyngham.
Refs: 'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 2; Murray Collection catalogue, 322-3; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 482

Name: HOPPER, THOMAS #
Building: CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE
Date: 1812-13
Nature: Alts, including circular room, for 1st Marquess Conyngham.
Refs: MS. letter from Hopper to Richard Morrison, 17 Dec 1839, in RIAI archives (copy and photograph in IAA, Jones files); Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 482-3;  Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 541.

Name: KENNEDY, LEWIS #
Building: CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE
Date: 1818
Nature: Proposed conservatory and improvements to demesne in portfolio entitled 'Notitiae on the Improvements Proposed...for Slane Castle', addressed to 1st Marquess Conyngham, Feb 1818.
Refs: Slane Castle collection (photographs of some of the illustrations are in IAA); see also Mark Odlum, 'Slane Castle, Co. Meath - III', Country Life 168, 31 Jul 1980, 385

Name: MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR)
Building: CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE
Date: 1820a
Nature: Unexecuted proposal for completion. For Henry Conyngham, 1st Marquess Conyngham.
Refs: A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 181

Name: SILLERY, CHARLES HENRY
Building: CO. MEATH, SLANE CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: Proposed design for stables by - Sillery.
Refs: E.McP files, citing information from Mark Odlum, Jun 1978