Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WESTMEATH, BALLYNAGALL

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, BALLYNAGALL
Date: 1808-1816
Nature: 2-storey Classical villa, for James Gibbons. Cost: £30,000.
Refs: Cornice designs for parlour, s. & d. 1816, in NLI, Stapleton Collection, 2310,2311,2312recto (See Eugenie Carr, 'A catalogue of the Stapleton family collection of Drawings in the National Library of Ireland', unpublished MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1985, 170-171,Pl.58; correspondence between FJ and John Robinson (?builder) re building of BallynAgall, 1810-15, in NLI, MSS. 18,926, 18,927;  J.N. Brewer, The Beauties of Ireland (1825 & 1826), I, 77;  'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 3; James.Woods, Annals of Westmeath (Dublin, 1907), 81; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 27(illus.); Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 453-4

Name: ROBINSON, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, BALLYNAGALL
Date: 1815
Nature: Work supervised by a John Robinson.
Refs: NLI, MS 12149, cited by Eugenie Carr, 'A catalogue of the Stapleton family collection of Drawings in the National Library of Ireland', unpublished MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1985, 219n45.

Name: STAPLETON, GEORGE *
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, BALLYNAGALL
Date: 1815-16
Nature: GS probably stuccodore and/or contractor.
Refs: Designs for stuccowork in NLI, Stapleton Collection, see Eugenie Carr, 'A catalogue of the Stapleton family collection of Drawings in the National Library of Ireland', unpublished MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1985, 42,219n45,236

Name: TURNER, RICHARD *
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, BALLYNAGALL
Date: 1846
Nature: Conservatory.
Refs: E.J. Diestelkamp, 'Richard Turner (c.1798-1881)and his glasshouses', Glasra 5 (1981), 52 (IAA offprint corrected by EJD to 1846)

Name: FARRELL & SON *
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, BALLYNAGALL
Date: 1851
Nature: Proposed glass internal porch, for James William Middleton Berry, Esq.
Refs: Drawing, signed and dated Oct 1851, in NLI, No. 5516

Name: HARGRAVE, JOHN
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, BALLYNAGALL
Date: ?
Nature: Stables.
Refs: APSD 14 (1864), H, 23; designs for stables in catalogue of auction of architectural drawings of John Hargrave, 1 Dec 1836

Name: MCLEISH, ALEXANDER
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, BALLYNAGALL
Date: ?
Nature: Grounds of house, for James Gibbons.
Refs: E. Malins & P. Bowe, Irish Gardens & Demesnes from 1830 (1980), 20.