Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CARLOW, OAK PARK

Name: PAPWORTH, GEORGE
Building: CO. CARLOW, OAK PARK
Date: 1815
Nature: Design for intended cast-iron bridge exh. Hibernian Society of Artists, Dublin, 1815 (no. 105). For Henry Bruen.
Refs: ALEI, II, 546

Name: MORRISON, WILLIAM VITRUVIUS
Building: CO. CARLOW, OAK PARK
Date: 1832
Nature: Classical remodelling, for Col. Henry Bruen. Also Ionic entrance arch.
Refs: A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 137-139(illus.)

Name: KEANE, JOHN BENJAMIN
Building: CO. CARLOW, OAK PARK
Date: 1841
Nature: Mausoleum in grounds (unfinished) almost certainly the church 'after a Greek peripteral Temple' for Col. Bruen for which JBK exhibited design at RHA in 1841.
Refs: RHA 1841, no. 412; The Architecture of Richard and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1988), 139

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CARLOW, OAK PARK
Date: 1876-1878
Nature: Extensive improvements to mansion for Henry Bruen (with aid from Board of Public Works?)
Refs: 43rd Report of the Board of Public Works Ireland (1874), 18; IB 18, 1 Aug 1876, 218; 20, 15 Aug 1878, 235

Name: MITCHELL, WILLIAM MANSFIELD
Building: CO. CARLOW, OAK PARK
Date: 1902
Nature: Alts. after fire damage for Hon. Henry Bruen.
Refs: Drawings, &c., 1902, in IAA, McCurdy & Mitchell Collection, 79/17, Bin IV, Roll 19; IAA, PKS 0850, A08 (Jun 1902); E. Macdowel Cosgrave, ed., Dublin and County Dublin in the Twentieth Century (1908), 268