Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILKENNY, KILFANE HOUSE

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILFANE HOUSE
Date: 1800a
Nature: 'To Kilfane, Mr Power has added a new front and other improvements, which render it not only an excellent house, but a good specimen of architecture.'
Refs: William Tighe, Statistical Observations relative to the County of Kilkenny made in the years 1800 and 1801 (1802), 588.William Tighe, Statistical Observations relative to the County of Kilkenny made in the years 1800 and 1801 (1802), 588.

Name: WRIGHT, JOSEPH *
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILFANE HOUSE
Date: 1855-56
Nature: Addition of flanking wings, with Patrick O'Toole, for Sir John Power, 2nd Bt.
Refs: http://www.buildingsofireland.ie (last visited, Aug 2015).

Name: O'TOOLE, PATRICK *
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILFANE HOUSE
Date: 1855-56
Nature: Addition of flanking wings, Designed and built by P.O'T. with Joseph Wright..  For Sir John Power, 2nd Bt.
Refs: www.buildingsofireland.ie (last visited, Aug 2015).

Name: ANDERSON, CHARLES FREDERICK
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILFANE HOUSE
Date: ?
Nature: CFA builds 'some beautiful buildings' for Sir John Power of Kilfane ante 1849.
Refs: Daniel Wilson Randle, A Question of Style: the Architectural Competition for the Central Building for the University of the South (MA thesis, University of Texas, 1978), 243

Name: ROBERTSON, WILLIAM
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILFANE HOUSE
Date: ?
Nature: J.A.K. Dean suggests that WR may have worked there as gate lodge is identical to that at the Ballyraggett road entrance to Jenkinstown, Co. Kilkenny.
Refs: Letter to IAA from J.A.K. Dean, Lisburn, 25 Nov 1996