Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WESTMEATH, GLANANEA

Name: WOOLLEY, SAMUEL #
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, GLANANEA
Date: 1796ca
Nature: Design of gates and possibly house attr. to SW on basis of s. & d. perspective in collection of Desmond Guinness. Gates later moved to Rosmead, Co. Westmeath. For Ralph Smyth. Coade stone keystone of gate dated 179(5?).
Refs: Watercolour perspective, s. & d. 1796, in collection of Desmond Guinness, Leixlip Castle (repr. Desmond Guinness & William Ryan, Irish houses & castles (Irish Georgian Society, 1971), 20);  Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 300-301;  Mark Bence-Jones,  Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 134(illus.);  Alison Kelly, Mrs Coade's Stone(1990), 437.