Selected: CO. ANTRIM, GLENARM CASTLE

Name:	MYERS, CHRISTOPHER [1]
Building:	CO. ANTRIM, GLENARM CASTLE
Date:	1756
Nature:	Rebuilt, for Alexander, 5th Earl of Antrim.
Refs:	Freeman's Journal 5-7 Jun 1770; C.E.B. Brett, Glens of Antrim (UAHS, 1971), 11,12(illus.); Frederick O'Dwyer, 'In search of Christopher Myers' in Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill, eds., Studies in the Gothic Revival (Dublin, 2008),66-69.

Name:	MORRISON, WILLIAM VITRUVIUS
Building:	CO. ANTRIM, GLENARM CASTLE
Date:	1823-24;1825
Nature:	Proposed remodelling in Tudor Gothic style, only partly executed (corner towers). 'Barbican' gate, 1825. For Anne Catherine McDonnell, Countess of Antrim. Gothicization completed by Charles Lanyon in 1840s.
Refs:	Presentation album of plans and elevations in PRONI, D.3560 (bought Christie's, Glasgow, 198; photographs in IAA); sketches of Glenarm by WVM in album of sketches and drawings formerly belonging to Louisa, daughter of 9th Earl of Antrim in PRONI, D 3560/1; Dublin Penny Journal 2 (1836), 288; A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 99-102; Anne Casement, 'Charles Lanyon at Glenarm', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 11 (2008), 238-251.

Name:	LANYON, CHARLES (SIR)
Building:	CO. ANTRIM, GLENARM CASTLE
Date:	1840
Nature:	CL responsible for completion of William Vitruvius Morrison's scheme for gothicization of house for Edmund McDonnell. Builders: John Robinson, Thomas Kelly and John Brown.
Refs:	Anne Casement, 'Charles Lanyon at Glenarm', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 11 (2008), 238-251.