Selected: CO. ARMAGH, GOSFORD CASTLE (MARKETHILL)

Name:	HOPPER, THOMAS #
Building:	CO. ARMAGH, GOSFORD CASTLE (MARKETHILL)
Date:	1819-1852
Nature:	Norman style, for Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford. 'far from being finished' in 1837; 'remaining wing' being completed in Oct 1852.   Assistant,1838-45: Thomas Duff. Clerk-of works, 1835-1843: John Farrell.  New entrance front built after TH's death by G.A. Burn.
Refs:	View of principal front by J. Miller (pupil of TH) at RA 1828, No. 1006; J. Binns, History and Beauties of Ireland (1837), 195;  building accounts and correspondence re building of Gosford Castle in PRONI, Gosford Papers, D1606 (see PRONI E-catalogue, Gosford Papers);  Armagh Guardian, 2 Oct 1852;  Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 542; D. Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (New York, 1983), I, 148-153, pls. 77-82;  C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of County Armagh (UAHS, 1999), 91-94(illus.);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 344-50.

Name:	DONNELLY, JOHN *
Building:	CO. ARMAGH, GOSFORD CASTLE (MARKETHILL)
Date:	1828a
Nature:	Builder of principal stair at castle.
Refs:	Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 345.

Name:	DONNELLY, JAMES [1]
Building:	CO. ARMAGH, GOSFORD CASTLE (MARKETHILL)
Date:	1833a
Nature:	JD involved in organising work on interior.
Refs:	Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 345.

Name:	JACKSON, THOMAS
Building:	CO. ARMAGH, GOSFORD CASTLE (MARKETHILL)
Date:	1852ca
Nature:	New entrance, for Archibald Acheson, 3rd Earl of Gosford.
Refs:	Hugh Dixon, 'Honouring Thomas Jackson', Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society Proceedings and Reports 2nd series, vol. 9 (1970/71-1976/77), 28, citing family information

Name:	BURN, GEORGE ADAM #
Building:	CO. ARMAGH, GOSFORD CASTLE (MARKETHILL)
Date:	1859
Nature:	Assistant to Thomas Hopper from 1853 and succeeded him as architect to the house, 1856.
Refs:	Design for new entrance front exh.RA 1859, no. 1097;  letters from GAB in PRONI, Gosford Papers, D1606 (see PRONI E-catalogue, Gosford Papers);  Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 22 (Jun 1859), 180;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 348-9 .

Name:	SEAVER, HENRY
Building:	CO. ARMAGH, GOSFORD CASTLE (MARKETHILL)
Date:	1922a
Nature:	HS said to have 'waved his Prospero's wand' over Gosford Castle.
Refs:	IB 64, 2 Dec 1922, 809

Name:	SMYTH, JOHN [4]*
Building:	CO. ARMAGH, GOSFORD CASTLE (MARKETHILL)
Date:	?
Nature:	JS executed architectural sculpture.
Refs:	D. Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (New York, 1983), I, 152;