Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TYRONE, ROXBOROUGH CASTLE

Name: MURRAY, WILLIAM [1]
Building: CO. TYRONE, ROXBOROUGH CASTLE
Date: 1830;1841-44
Nature: Adds. & imps., 1830; Italianate alts. & adds., including new service wings, 1841-44. Proposed gates & lodge. For Francis William Caulfield, 2nd Earl of Charlemont. Contractor: Thomas Walker.
Refs: Designs exh. RHA 1830, no. 415, 1841, no. 415; drawings, 1841-44, in IAA, Murray Collection, 92/46, nos. 993-1073 (see Bernadette Goslin, 'A History and descriptive catalogue of the Murray Collection of architectural drawings' (MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1990), 297-308; 2 of these drawings were exh. Architecture of Ireland (1975), nos. 68, 69, incorrectly identified as Roxborough, Co. Galway);  see 'A new song called Roxborough Castle' in IAA, A.E. Murray scrapbook, 87/58.

Name: TURNER, RICHARD *
Building: CO. TYRONE, ROXBOROUGH CASTLE
Date: 1850ca-1855
Nature: Conservatory. For Francis William Caulfield, 2nd Earl of Charlemont.
Refs: E.J. Diestelkamp, 'Richard Turner (c.1798-1881)and his glasshouses', Glasra 5 (1981), 52.

Name: BARRE, WILLIAM JOSEPH
Building: CO. TYRONE, ROXBOROUGH CASTLE
Date: 1865-68
Nature: Extensive additions and alterations in French château style. For James Caulfield, 3rd Earl of Charlemont. Work completed by Charles Acton Sherry after death of WJB in 1867. Contractors: Fitzpatrick Bros. (House demolished.)
Refs: DB 7, 15 Mar, 15 Jun 1865, 82,147;  PRONI, Fitzpatrick Bros. papers,  D1905/1/6;  Durham Dunlop (ed.), A Memoir of the professional life of William J. Barre, Esq. member of the Royal Institute of Architects Ireland: with photographic illustrations selected from his works (Belfast: James Magill, 1868), 43, Pl.17; IALE,32.

Name: SHERRY, CHARLES ACTON
Building: CO. TYRONE, ROXBOROUGH CASTLE
Date: 1865-68
Nature: CAS completes work after death of W.J. Barre in 1867. Contractor: Fitzpatrick Bros.
Refs: PRONI, Fitzpatrick Bros. papers, D1905/1/6