Selected: CO. LAOIS, BROCKLEY PARK

Name:	DUCART, DAVIS
Building:	CO. LAOIS, BROCKLEY PARK
Date:	1768
Nature:	'built in 1768 under the direction of Ducart, an Italian architect, on the site of a former one burnt down' (\|Anthologia Hibernica\|). For 2nd Viscount Jocelyn; demolished 1944.
Refs:	'An account of the ancient and present state of …Stradbally and of Brockley Park…', Anthologia Hibernica IV (Sep 1794, 184-5; Thomas Milton, The Seats and Demesnes of the Nobility and Gentry of Ireland (1783-93), 19,Pl.10; Desmond Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin, 'The architecture of Davis Duckart', Country Life 142, 5 Oct 1967, 799; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 48(illus.); John Logan, 'Dropped into this Kingdom from the clouds': The Irish career of Davis Dukart, architect and engineer, 1761-1781', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 10 (2007), 59-62(illus.)