Selected: CO. KILDARE, DONADEA CASTLE
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, DONADEA CASTLE |
Date: | 1773 |
Nature: | 'Elizabethan front' erected in 1773. For Sir Fitzgerald Aylmer (who, according to William Wenman Seward, |Topographia Hibernica| (1795), ?, repaired ruined castle 'at considerable expense') |
Refs: | J.B. Burke, Visitation of Seats and Arms (2nd ser., 1855), I, 80-81 |
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, DONADEA CASTLE |
Date: | 1812 |
Nature: | 'handsome porch'. For Sir Fenton Aylmer. (Is this Richard Morrison's work?, see Bence-Jones) |
Refs: | J.B. Burke, Visitation of Seats and Arms (2nd ser., 1855), I, 80-81 |
Name: | AYLMER, GERALD GEORGE (SIR) |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, DONADEA CASTLE |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Cottages on estate. |
Refs: | Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 3 (1899-1902), 177 |
Name: | AYLMER, GERALD GEORGE (SIR) |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, DONADEA CASTLE |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Alterations |
Refs: | W. Sherlock, ed., 'Donadea and the Aylmer family', Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 3 (1899-1902), 177. |
Name: | MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR) |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, DONADEA CASTLE |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | 'bowed centre of ca 1800' attr. to Richard Morrison' by Bence Jones (but cf. Burke). ?For Sir Fenton Aylmer, Bt., who married a da. of Sir John Evans Freke, 2nd Bt., in 1795 (see Castle Freke, Co. Cork). (House demolished, 1940) |
Refs: | Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 104 |
Name: | WILKINSON, GEORGE |
Building: | CO. KILDARE, DONADEA CASTLE |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Proposal for gate lodge and gate for Sir Gerald Aylmer (succ. 1816; d. 1878) may have been designed by GW. |
Refs: |
Unsigned elevation and ground plan in collection of drawings, chiefly of antiquities, which formerly belonged to GW, now in NLI (George Wilkinson collection, AD 3588). |