Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, TOLLYMORE PARK

Name: WRIGHT, THOMAS #
Building: CO. DOWN, TOLLYMORE PARK
Date: 1751ca
Nature: Small house and perhaps also 'thatch'd open place to dine in', for James Hamilton, 1st Viscount Limerick.  Probably lso  Barbican Gate, Horn Bridge, and 'Lord L:imerick's follies' (roadside towers and gate piers) (Harris, 2013)
Refs: Eileen Harris, 'Architect of Rococo landscapes: Thomas Wright - III', Country Life150, 9 Sep 1971, 614; E. Malins & the Knight of Glin, Lost Demesnes: Irish landscape gardening, 1660-1845 (1976), 119; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn, 2008), 1169;  Eileen Harris , 'Thomas Wright and Viscount Limerick at Tollymore Park', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 16 (2013), 132-143 (illus.);  see also Peter Rankin, Tollymore Park: the Gothick Revival of Thomas Wright & Lord Limerick (Belfast: The Follies Trust, 2010).

Name: LANYON, CHARLES (SIR)
Building: CO. DOWN, TOLLYMORE PARK
Date: 1841
Nature: ?Work on portico and chapel.
Refs: Information given to F. O'Dwyer by Earl of Roden, source not specified.

Name: CARROLL, JAMES RAWSON
Building: CO. DOWN, TOLLYMORE PARK
Date: 1878-1880
Nature: Additions, for 4th Earl of Roden. Builder: H. & J. Martin. Cost: £3,646.
Refs: IAA, PKS B06a/66 (pp.683,689), B09/23 (pp.345,412,424), A06 (Oct 1878)

Name: BIRCH, JOHN #
Building: CO. DOWN, TOLLYMORE PARK
Date: 1879a
Nature: Gate lodge, for Earl of Roden.
Refs: John Birch, Picturesque Lodges (1879), ?; John Birch, Concrete buildings for landed estates in Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1881), 27-8,Pl.8.

Name: BIRCH, JOHN #
Building: CO. DOWN, TOLLYMORE PARK
Date: 1881A
Nature: Proposed labourers' cottages, for Earl of Roden.
Refs: John Birch, Concrete buildings for landed estates in Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1881), 22,Pl.4

Name: GALLAGHER, THADDEUS
Building: CO. DOWN, TOLLYMORE PARK
Date: ?
Nature: TG 'known to have worked at Tullymore Park in Co. Down'.
Refs: Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 309

Name: LOUCH, JOHN HOWARD
Building: CO. DOWN, TOLLYMORE PARK
Date: ?
Nature: Works at same, for 3rd Earl of Roden.
Refs: 'Statement of the Louch family from their transplanting to Ireland in 17--' by Fitzgibbon Louch, Jun 1894 (copy in IAA)

Name: ADAM, ROBERT #
Building: CO. DOWN, TOLLYMORE PARK
Date: ?
Nature: Proposal for Gothic tower. For James Hamilton, Viscount Limerick.  Unexecuted.
Refs: Soane Museum, Adam drawings, Vol. 29, nos. 80-82;   Alistair Rowan, 'Georgian Castles in Ireland I', BIGS 7 (no. 1, Jan-Mar 1964), 11-12, Pl. 6.