Selected: CO. WATERFORD, CURRAGHMORE
Name: | LAFRANCHINI, PAOLO * |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, CURRAGHMORE |
Date: | 1746p |
Nature: | Ceiling of billiard room by Paolo and Filippo Lafranchini. |
Refs: | Carlo Palumbo-Fossati, Gli Stuccatori Ticinesi Lafranchini in Inghilterra e in Irlanda nel Secolo XVIII (Fondazione Ticino Nostro, Lugano, 1982), 73-74, pl.54; Joseph McDonnell, Irish Eighteenth-Century Stuccowork and its European sources (National Gallery of Ireland, 1991), 23, pl.91 |
Name: | NOST, JOHN (VAN) [2]* |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, CURRAGHMORE |
Date: | 1754 |
Nature: | Life-sized statue of Catherine, Countess of Tyrone in grotto. |
Refs: | W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II, 487 (cites Faulkner's Journal, 3 Jun 1755) |
Name: | ROBERTS, JOHN [1] |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, CURRAGHMORE |
Date: | 1775a |
Nature: | Offices for 'Lord Tyrone' (1st or 2nd earl?), i.e. forecourt at Curraghmore? Girouard says JR a likely candidate and 1750-60 a likely date. Bence Jones says by JR. (Forecourt attr. to Francis Bindon by Knight of Glin in BIGS, 10, Nos. 2 & 3, Apr-Sep 1967, 16.) |
Refs: | Letter from Richard Chenevix, Bishop of Waterford, to William Gore, Bishop of Limerick, 16 May 1775, in NLI, Limerick MSS., PC 875, 19/7; Mark Girouard, 'Curraghmore, Co. Waterford', Country Life 133, 14 Feb 1963, 308; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 97 |
Name: | WYATT, JAMES # |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, CURRAGHMORE |
Date: | 1778-1780 |
Nature: | Alts., including interiors of dining-room, staircase, library. For George De La Poer, 2nd Earl of Tyrone (cr. 1st Marquess of Waterford, 1789). |
Refs: |
Design(s) in album of ceiling designs by JW, Metopolitan Museum of Art; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 1184; John Martin Robinson, James Wyatt: architect to George III (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012), 115-116, Pls. 105-107. |
Name: | PENROSE, THOMAS |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, CURRAGHMORE |
Date: | 1779ca |
Nature: | 'neo-classical ceilings...often attributed to Wyatt, may...be Penrose's work' |
Refs: | Frederick O'Dwyer, 'Making connections in Georgian Ireland', BIGS 37 (1996-97), 18 |
Name: | DE GREE, PETER *# |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, CURRAGHMORE |
Date: | 1787ca |
Nature: | Circular medallions in drawing room ceiling and oval panels in dining room. (Rooms designed by James Wyatt). For 1st Earl of Waterford. |
Refs: | W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 270; Mark Girouard, 'Curraghmore, Co. Waterford', Country Life 133, 14,21 Feb 1963, 310-11(illus.),368-9(illus.) |
Name: | ROBERTSON, DANIEL |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, CURRAGHMORE |
Date: | 1833 |
Nature: | Proposed Gothic extension and recasing, for 3rd Marquess of Waterford. Not executed. |
Refs: | Mark Girouard, 'Curraghmore, Co. Waterford'. Country Life 133, 21 Feb 1963,371; Frederick O'Dwyer, '"Modelled Muscularity": Daniel Robertson's Tudor mansions', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 15 (1999), 91 |
Name: | TINSLEY, WILLIAM |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, CURRAGHMORE |
Date: | 1847-1850 |
Nature: | Farm and stable buildings. Also fortification of house against insurgents, 1848. and mill, 1849. For 3rd Marquess of Waterford. |
Refs: | J.D. Forbes, Victorian Architect: the life and work of William Tinsley (Indiana University Press, 1953), 46-47,51 |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, CURRAGHMORE |
Date: | 1864a |
Nature: | Fountain, adorned with figures which formed prominent feature at Paris Exhibition, purchased for £3,000. Jet of more than 40 ft. |
Refs: | DB 6, 15 May 1864, 99 |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, CURRAGHMORE |
Date: | 1865 |
Nature: | Conversion of riding school into ballroom for Earl of Tyrone's coming-of-age. For 4th Marquess of Waterford. |
Refs: |
DB 7, 15 Jul 1865, 182. |
Name: | BOEHM, JOSEPH EDGAR (SIR) *# |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, CURRAGHMORE |
Date: | 1870s? |
Nature: | Family crest on tower and pediment. |
Refs: | Mark Girouard, 'Curraghmore, Co. Waterford', Country Life 133, 21 Feb 1963, 371; Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments (UAHS, 1975), 37, pl.69. |
Name: | ROBERTS, SAMUEL USSHER |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, CURRAGHMORE |
Date: | 1873p |
Nature: | 'accommodation vastly improved by present, 5th Marquis, under direction of Mr Samuel Roberts (arch)' (Egan); Girouard dates remodelling to 1870s (following 2nd marriage in 1874?) Contractor: Sibthorpe. Estimated cost: £3,216. |
Refs: | IAA, PKS B06/11, A06 (Mar 1873); P.M. Egan, History, guide and directory of county and city of Waterford [1895], 694; Mark Girouard, 'Curraghmore, Co. Waterford'. Country Life 133, 21 Feb 1963,371 |
Name: | HOGAN, JAMES, & SONS * |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, CURRAGHMORE |
Date: | 1875a |
Nature: | Exterior plasterwork. For 5th Marquess of Waterford. |
Refs: | Advertisements by JH & Sons in Irish Times, 29 Oct,1,15,17 Nov 1875 and Freeman's Journal, 6 Nov 1875. |
Name: | FRASER, JAMES |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, CURRAGHMORE |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Design of parterre and semicircular garden by Fraser, for Marchioness of Waterford. |
Refs: | Edward Malins & Patrick Bowe, Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830(1980), 35 |