Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CAVAN, FARNHAM HOUSE

Name: WYATT, JAMES #
Building: CO. CAVAN, FARNHAM HOUSE
Date: 1790s?
Nature: Ceiling designs. May have designed library. Possibly supplied design for whole house. For Barry, 1st Earl of Farnham.
Refs: Design(s) for Farnham in album of ceiling designs by JW, Metopolitan Museum of Art Ref. 1958.511 (42,47,48); Jeremy Musson, 'Farnham House, Co. Cavan', Country Life 197, 2 Jan 2003, 26-31(illus.)

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. CAVAN, FARNHAM HOUSE
Date: 1802-03
Nature: Large addition, for John James Maxwell, 2nd Earl of Farnham.
Refs: Drawings, some signed and dated 1802 and 1803, in IAA, Murray collection, nos.850-865 (see Murray Collection catalogue, pp. 255-258; 'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 4; Jeremy Musson, 'Farnham House, Co. Cavan', Country Life 197, 2 Jan 2003, 26-31(illus.);  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 33,333.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CAVAN, FARNHAM HOUSE
Date: 1839
Nature: Improvements. For Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham.
Refs: F.O. Morris, Picturesque Views of Seats [n.d.], I, 39

Name: FERGUSON, GODFREY WILLIAM
Building: CO. CAVAN, FARNHAM HOUSE
Date: ?
Nature: Alterations.
Refs: F. Chatterton (ed.),Who's Who in Architecture (1923), 89