| Name: |
EDGEWORTH, RICHARD LOVELL |
| Building: |
CO. LONGFORD, EDGEWORTHSTOWN HOUSE |
| Date: |
1782p |
| Nature: |
Alts. and adds. Later alts, in 1807 and 1812. 'He went on by slow degrees, as prudence required, year after year…till after exerting some engineering skill, not without frequent predictions from the lookers on, that he would pull the whole house down, he succeeded in making it such as to satisfy his own moderate wishes and a comfortable reisidence for a large family.'(Brewer) |
| Refs: |
J.N. Brewer, The Beauties of Ireland, II (1826), 268; Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster (1993), 286-7
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