Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK

Name: CLEMENTS, NATHANIEL
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK
Date: 1734-1777
Nature: NC involved in and, from 1752, responsible for improvements to landscaping.
Refs: A.P.W. Malcomson, Nathaniel Clements, 1705-77. Politics, fashion and architecture in mid-eighteenth-century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2015),85-105.

Name: GIBSON, WILLIAM [3]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK
Date: 1777ca
Nature: WG engaged in works in same.
Refs: E.McP., citing 'H of C Index a/cs & papers no 2137'.

Name: BURTON, DECIMUS #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK
Date: 1832-1849
Nature: Improvements, lodges &c.
Refs: Plans & letters in OPW; plans in PRO MPD141, also PRO Guide to Maps 3883; designs for lodges in NLI Portfolio 26; Colvin; 19 drawings of lodges, dated 1836-9, in NLI, A.D. 2111-2129; Decimus Burton 1800-1881 (exhibition catalogue, Institution of Landscape Horticulture of Ireland and OPW, 1988) contains copy of Burton's report on the Park and suggestions for its improvement, 27 Sep 1834;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 291,296,300,309-11,.


Name: SMITH, THOMAS [4]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK
Date: 1903p
Nature: TS responsible for ornamental planting from 1903 onwards.
Refs: Alan Grills, 'A famous Irish nursery: Daisy Hill Nurseries, Newry', Moorea: Journal of the Irish Garden Plant Society 10 (1993),4.