Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LIMERICK, DROMORE CASTLE

Name: GODWIN, EDWARD WILLIAM #
Building: CO. LIMERICK, DROMORE CASTLE
Date: 1866-67
Nature: New castle in form of a massive keep, flanked by lower buildings of varying heights balanced by reproduction of ancient Irishround tower. With Henry Crisp, for 3rd Earl of Limerick. Problems with damp.
Refs: Drawings, 1867-69, in Victoria & Albert Museum, RIBA Drawings Collection PB518/1(1-75), PB510/15(1-31), also papers in RIBA Archive, GoE/1-3/2, see British Architectural Library Catalogue, http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/ (last visited May 2009) and Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects G-K (1973), 30 (no. 17); MSS relating to alts., adds. and furniture design, 1867-1869, in British Architectural Library manuscripts collection, GoE/1-GoE/3/2; designs for waterworks and view of castle in sketchbook in V & A, E.230-1963 A123B; designs for banners and interior of chapel at Dromore also in V & A, E. 360-367-1963 A124; RA 1867, no. 888; RA 1869, no. 1012; Building News 14 (1867), 222,224-5(illus.),755,758-9(illus.); Architect 4, 20 Aug 1870, 104(illus.); IB 20, 15 Dec 1878, 357; 42, 15 Jan 1900, 239(illus.); 43, 24 Oct 1901, 906(illus.); Dudley Harbron, The conscious stone: the life of Edward William Godwin (London, 1949), 62-4,70,73,78; Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland, typescript copy of doctoral dissertation, Yale University, 1970, II, 694-701; Aileen Reid, 'Dromore Castle…Archaeology and the sister arts of E.W. Godwin', Architectural History 30 (1987), 113-142; Mark Bence-Jones, 'An Aesthete's Irish Castle', Country Life 136, 12 Nov 1964, 1274