Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, BLACKROCK CASTLE

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, BLACKROCK CASTLE
Date: 1720;1723
Nature: 'Built [i.e. restored and remodelled?]' 1720 (Tuckey). Lead cupola proposed, 1723. (Castle became property of Cork Corporation in 1717.)
Refs: Francis H. Tuckey, The County and City of Cork Remembrancer (Cork, 1837), 127;  R. Caulfield (ed.) The Council Book of the Corporation of the City of Cork (1876), 343,431

Name: KENT, SOBER
Building: CO. CORK, BLACKROCK CASTLE
Date: 1773
Nature: Minor repairs.
Refs: R. Caulfield (ed.) The Council Book of the Corporation of the City of Cork (1876), 882

Name: PAIN, JAMES
Building: CO. CORK, BLACKROCK CASTLE
Date: 1828-29
Nature: New castle built on foundations of Jacobean one. With G.R. Pain, for Cork Corporation.
Refs: Architects named in inscription on gate; Dublin Penny Journal I, 11 Aug 1832, 147; J. Windele, Historical and descriptive notices of the City of Cork (1849), ?; APSD VI, P, 6-7; D. Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (New York, 1983), I, 147-8;  David Lee & Debbie Jacobs, James Pain, architect (Limerick Civic Trust, 2005), 191-195(illus.)

Name: HILL, HENRY
Building: CO. CORK, BLACKROCK CASTLE
Date: ?
Nature: 2 alternative schemes for adaptation to place of resort for Cork Corporation.
Refs: Unsigned, undated drawings (plans) in collection of Myrtle Allen, Ballymaloe, Co. Cork (photographed by IAA, neg. no. S/2312/2,14)