Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LIMERICK, MOUNT SHANNON

Name: WYATT, LEWIS WILLIAM #
Building: CO. LIMERICK, MOUNT SHANNON
Date: 1813
Nature: Alts. including addition of portico, perhaps carried out by James Pain. For John Fitzgibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare.
Refs: Perspective view, signed and dated May 1813, in posession of Constantine FitzGibbon, 1976; see Constantine FitzGibbon, 'The Mount Shannon Catalogue, 1888', BIGS 19 (Nos. 1 & 2, Jan-Jun 1976), 14,18(illus.); Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 216(illus.).

Name: SUTHERLAND, JOHN
Building: CO. LIMERICK, MOUNT SHANNON
Date: 1826a
Nature: Plans for approach to house , incomplete at time of JS's death.
Refs: E. Malins & the Knight of Glin, Lost Demesnes: Irish landscape gardening, 1660-1845 (1976), 74; Keith Lamb & Patrick Bowe, A History of Gardening in Ireland (National Botanic Gardens, 1995), 48

Name: MCCONNELL, JAMES EDWARD #
Building: CO. LIMERICK, MOUNT SHANNON
Date: 1840ca
Nature: JEM, on behalf of Vernon & Co, Liverpool, 'superintended the erection of several horticultural buildings, and a great deal of machinery, for the late Earl of Clare at Mountshannon.'
Refs: Min.Proc.Inst.CE 74 (1882-83), Pt. 4, pp. 285-6

Name: PAIN, JAMES
Building: CO. LIMERICK, MOUNT SHANNON
Date: ?
Nature: Work for 2nd Earl of Clare, either supervising remodelling to designs of Lewis Wyatt or carrying out subsequent alts.
Refs: NLI MS. 1757 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc. 2008/44); Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 216(illus.); David Lee & Debbie Jacobs, James Pain, architect (Limerick Civic Trust, 2005), 31-32(illus.)

Name: WOODGATE, ROBERT
Building: CO. LIMERICK, MOUNT SHANNON
Date: ?
Nature: Visits same.
Refs: E.McP files, citing PRONI Mic 18, Reel 7