Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CREAGH CASTLE (DONERAILE)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, CREAGH CASTLE (DONERAILE)
Date: 1816
Nature: New house, perhaps incorporating part of Castle Saffron, formerly on site. For Capt. W.J. Brasier-Creagh.
Refs: Richard J. Hodges, Cork and County Cork in the Twentieth Century (1911), 105; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 94(illus.); Anna-Maria Hajba, Houses of Cork I (2002), 131-2(illus.)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, CREAGH CASTLE (DONERAILE)
Date: 1827
Nature: Battlemented Gothic entrance gates consisting of central arch flanked by two smaller ones. For Capt. William Brasier-Creagh.
Refs: Richard J. Hodges, Cork and County Cork in the Twentieth Century (1911), 105; Mark Bence-Jones, Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I, Ireland. (London, 1978), 94; Anna-Maria Hajba, Houses of Cork I (2002), 132

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. CORK, CREAGH CASTLE (DONERAILE)
Date: 1911
Nature: Addition of 2 bays to 5-bay house. For Capt. John Washington Brasier-Creagh.
Refs: Anna-Maria Hajba, Houses of Cork I (2002), 132

Name: LAFRANCHINI, PAOLO *
Building: CO. CORK, CREAGH CASTLE (DONERAILE)
Date: ?
Nature: Rooms decorated by Paolo and Filippo Lafranchini. for John Love. House destroyed by fire.
Refs: Carlo Palumbo-Fossati, Gli Stuccatori Ticinesi Lafranchini in Inghilterra e in Irlanda nel Secolo XVIII (Fondazione Ticino Nostro, Lugano, 1982), 69