Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KERRY, BALLYSEEDY

Name: MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR)
Building: CO. KERRY, BALLYSEEDY
Date: 1821
Nature: Service wing tentatively attributed to RM by Bence-Jones, who dates it to 1816.. For Arthur Blennerhassett. (House built c. 1760 for R.P. Blennerhassett.)
Refs: Datestoneover entrance on N side of service wing (information from Bob Frewen, Jan 2015);  Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 28(illus.); A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 186

Name: FULLER, JAMES FRANKLIN
Building: CO. KERRY, BALLYSEEDY
Date: ?
Nature: Work  (i.e. remodelling) for Arthur Blennerhassett (probably on or after his marriage in 1882).
Refs: J.F. Fuller, 'Reminiscences of Fifty Years', IB Jubilee Number 1909, 25; J.F. Fuller, Omniana (1916), 184; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 28(illus.);  Bob Frewen, 'James Franklin Fuller, architect and genealogist', unpublished article, 2014, 33-34 (copy in IAA) gives details of this remodelling.).