Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. MEATH, HEADFORT

Name: CHAMBERS, WILLIAM (SIR) #
Building: CO. MEATH, HEADFORT
Date: 1765
Nature: WC paid 40 gns. by Viscount Headfort for (unexecuted) designs for house with 13-bay garden front, and entrance fron tiwh 7 bay central block, colonnaded quadrants leading to stable and kitchen wings.
Refs: Drawings in the collection of Mr & Mrs Paul Mellon; John Harris, Sir William Chambers(London, 1970), 210; John Harris, Headfort House & Robert Adam (RIBA exhibition catalogue, London, 1973), Pls. 5-7; John Cornforth, 'The Genesis of Headfort', Country Life 153, 5 Apr 1973, 947; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 14

Name: COOLEY, THOMAS
Building: CO. MEATH, HEADFORT
Date: 1769-1771
Nature: TC may have acted as overseer of building designed by George Semple
Refs: Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 315

Name: SEMPLE, GEORGE [1]
Building: CO. MEATH, HEADFORT
Date: 1769a
Nature: New house for Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective; 'straightforward to the point of monotony' (Casey & Rowan)
Refs: 7 designs, one initialled 'G.S.' and dated 27 Aug 1760, in IAA, Guinness Collection, Acc.96/068.3/2/1-7; John Cornforth, 'The Genesis of Headfort', Country Life 153, 15 Apr 1973, 947-8; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 314-5

Name: ADAM, ROBERT #
Building: CO. MEATH, HEADFORT
Date: 1772-5
Nature: Dining room, hall, stairs; partially executed. For Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective.
Refs: Drawings in Soane Museum, Adam vols. 12 (nos. 96-103). 50 (nos. 57-63), 53 (no. 29), 22 (no. 292) (photocopies in IAA, RP.B.50.5); drawings in Mellon Collection, listed in Headfort House & Robert Adam (RIBA exhibition catalogue, London, 1973);  working drawings in collection of Marquess of Headfort (2009); Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 313-316, Pl. 78; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 52.

Name: BRIGGS, JOSEPH *
Building: CO. MEATH, HEADFORT
Date: 1773p
Nature: Employed as stonecutter at same.
Refs: Account of work at Headfort from 1773 onwards in NLI MS 26,649 (E.McP files).

Name: MCCULLAGH, JAMES *
Building: CO. MEATH, HEADFORT
Date: 1774a
Nature: 'John McCulla' was paid for decorative plasterwork at Headfort House in January 1774.
Refs: John Harris, Headfort House & Robert Adam (RIBA, 1973), unpaginated).

Name: COOLEY, THOMAS
Building: CO. MEATH, HEADFORT
Date: 1779
Nature: Executed design for bridge in park
Refs: Drawing s. & d. May 1779 in IAA, Guinness Collection, Acc. 96/068.3/3/5; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 315,317

Name: EATON, BENJAMIN [1]*
Building: CO. MEATH, HEADFORT
Date: 1789
Nature: Design for a Chinese temple. For 1st Marquess of Headfort.
Refs: Plan and elevation in IAA, Guinness Collection, Acc. 96/68.3/3/11

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. MEATH, HEADFORT
Date: 1802
Nature: Design for battlemented bridge over River Blackwater, for 1st Marquess of Headfort.
Refs: Plan and elevation, signed and dated 1802, in IAA, Guinness Collection, Acc. 06/068.3/3/6.

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. MEATH, HEADFORT
Date: 1802ca
Nature: Plans for proposed Gothicisation, for Marquess of Headfort. 'which he approved of, paid me for, but never put into execution'.
Refs: Drawings (including survey drawings dated 1802) in IAA, Murray Collection, nos. 879-885 (see Murray Collection catalogue, pp. 264-5); composite elevation formerly in Murray Collection but now (2010) framed in RIAI (illus. in Irish Architectural Drawings (1965), no. 72); 'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 3

Name: MCLEISH, ALEXANDER
Building: CO. MEATH, HEADFORT
Date: 1824
Nature: AMcL working on garden/grounds.
Refs: E. Malins & P. Bowe, Irish Gardens & Demesnes from 1830 (1980), 20.

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. MEATH, HEADFORT
Date: 1870
Nature: Mausoleum for 2nd Marquess of Headfort. Consecrated 5 May 1870. Builder: Henry Sharpe, Kells.
Refs: IB 12, 1 Jun 1870, 123; B 28, ? ? 1870, 455; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 317 (illus. pl. 127)

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. MEATH, HEADFORT
Date: 1874-75
Nature: Farm buildings. Cost: £3,635. Builder: Sharpe.
Refs: IAA, PKS B06/52, B07/20, A06 (Nov 1874)

Name: CASTLE, RICHARD
Building: CO. MEATH, HEADFORT
Date: ?
Nature: Proposals for new house, for Sir Thomas Taylor, 2nd Bt. Not executed.
Refs: Plans and elevation in hand of RC in  IAA, Guinness Collection, Acc. 96/68.3/1/2-9; D.J. Griffin, 'A Richard Castle design for Headfort, Co. Meath' in  Conleth Manning, ed., Dublin and beyond the Pale: Studies in honour of Patrick Healy (1998), 269-272(illus.)

Name: COOLEY, THOMAS
Building: CO. MEATH, HEADFORT
Date: ?
Nature: Gates in demesne wall attr. to TC
Refs: Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993),, 315

Name: ENSOR, JOHN
Building: CO. MEATH, HEADFORT
Date: ?
Nature: Unexecuted proposal.
Refs: Plan and elevation in IAA, Guinness Collection, Acc.96/068, 3/1/10;   John Harris, Headfort House & Robert Adam (RIBA exhibition catalogue, 1973), preface, p.1,3(illus.)