Selected: CO. KERRY, KENMARE HOUSE
Name: | KENMARE, VALENTINE BROWNE, 3RD VISCOUNT |
Building: | CO. KERRY, KENMARE HOUSE |
Date: | 1726ca |
Nature: | 13-bay, 2-storey house with high pitched roof designed by 3rd Viscount Kenmare, built from local materials using labour from the estate. |
Refs: | Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 162(illus.) |
Name: | SHEEHAN, DAVID * |
Building: | CO. KERRY, KENMARE HOUSE |
Date: | 1754 |
Nature: | 'most magnificent and superb chimney piece of white Italian marble..now finished for that most excellent young Nobleman Lord Kenmare, to be erected at his seat in the county of Kerry,...from the Design of Inigo Jones...the carving by the great Mr Houghton' |
Refs: | Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 19-22 Jan 1754 |
Name: | HUNT, THOMAS FREDERICK # |
Building: | CO. KERRY, KENMARE HOUSE |
Date: | 1834 |
Nature: | Drenagh Lodge design shown in Hunt's Half-a-dozen Hints on Picturesque Domestic Architecture in a series of designs for Gate Lodges, Gamekeepers' Cottages, and other rural residences (1825), Plate 2. Datestone on porch. For 2nd Earl of Kenmare. |
Refs: | Information from J.A.K. Dean |
Name: | HANSOM, CHARLES FRANCIS # |
Building: | CO. KERRY, KENMARE HOUSE |
Date: | 1858 |
Nature: | Private chapel for Lord Castlerosse. |
Refs: | B 16, 2 Oct 1858, 665 |