Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WICKLOW, BELLEVUE (DELGANY)

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BELLEVUE (DELGANY)
Date: 1754
Nature: Property bought in 1753 from Dr Corbet, Dean of St Patrick's, by David La Touche (1703-1785), who built house in 1754.
Refs: John Ferrar, A view of ancient and modern Dublin, with its improvements to the year 1796. To which is added A tour to Bellevue, in the county of Wicklow, the seat of Peter la Touche, Esq.  (Dublin, 1796), 98.

Name: JOHNSTON, ENOCH
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BELLEVUE (DELGANY)
Date: 1766
Nature: Octagon. Gothic building of rustic masonry, with kitchen and lesser offices on ground floor and little drawing on upper floor.  Contained 2 'well devised deceptions': window glazed with mirror to give appearance of an inner room;  door which concealed occasional fireplace.
Refs: 'A descriptive view of the Glen of the Downs, 1773' in NLI, R.D. Walshe cuttings and notes on Co. Wicklow, MS. 14,044;  John Ferrar, A view of ancient and modern Dublin, with its improvements to the year 1796. To which is added A tour to Bellevue, in the county of Wicklow, the seat of Peter la Touche, Esq.  (Dublin, 1796), 11; IB 20, 5 May 1878, 146

Name: STAPLETON, MICHAEL *
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BELLEVUE (DELGANY)
Date: 1779ca
Nature: Plasterwork by MS?
Refs: Unsigned, undated drawing in NLI, Stapleton Collection, 2280 (& 2235?), see Eugenie Carr, 'A catalogue of the Stapleton family collection of Drawings in the National Library of Ireland', unpublished MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1985, 73-74,86,236; C.P. Curran, Dublin Decorative Plasterwork(1967), 82,113-4

Name: COOLEY, THOMAS
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BELLEVUE (DELGANY)
Date: 1781a
Nature: Angell describes house of John[sic] Latouche at Delgany as 'elegant stone house, designed and executed by Mr Cooly'
Refs: John Angell, A General history of Ireland  (1781), II, 5 (but cf.John Ferrar, A view of ancient and modern Dublin, with its improvements to the year 1796. To which is added A tour to Bellevue, in the county of Wicklow, the seat of Peter la Touche, Esq.  (Dublin, 1796), 98, which gives date of house as 1754 and says that wings were added by Peter La Touche, i.e. post 1785?.)

Name: SANDYS, FRANCIS [1]
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BELLEVUE (DELGANY)
Date: 1788
Nature: Addition of Gothic dining room to octagon.
Refs: John Ferrar, A view of ancient and modern Dublin, with its improvements to the year 1796. To which is added A tour to Bellevue, in the county of Wicklow, the seat of Peter la Touche, Esq.  (Dublin, 1796), 98.

Name: PENNICK, MICHAEL *
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BELLEVUE (DELGANY)
Date: 1791;1792
Nature: MP erected 2 forcing houses for Peter La Touche in 1791 and 1792.
Refs: John Ferrar, A view of ancient and modern Dublin, with its improvements to the year 1796. To which is added A tour to Bellevue, in the county of Wicklow, the seat of Peter la Touche, Esq. (Dublin, 1796),  111.

Name: SANDYS, FRANCIS [1]
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BELLEVUE (DELGANY)
Date: 1793
Nature: 'Turkish tent' in grounds for Peter La Touche.
Refs: John Ferrar, A view of ancient and modern Dublin, with its improvements to the year 1796. To which is added A tour to Bellevue, in the county of Wicklow, the seat of Peter la Touche, Esq.  (Dublin, 1796),  109-11

Name: SHANLEY, PETER
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BELLEVUE (DELGANY)
Date: 1796ca
Nature: Range of conservatories, 264 ft. long. Begun circa 1796. Cost: £3,000. For Peter La Touche.
Refs: John Ferrar, A view of ancient and modern Dublin, with its improvements to the year 1796. To which is added A tour to Bellevue, in the county of Wicklow, the seat of Peter la Touche, Esq.  (Dublin, 1796), 106; Ray Desmond, Dictionary of British & Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists (1994), 619.

Name: LILLY, CHARLES
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BELLEVUE (DELGANY)
Date: 1803
Nature: Carpentry work (including chapel) by CL for Peter La Touche measured by Bryan Bolger, Mar 1803, by order of Richard Morrison.
Refs: Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/125

Name: MORRISON, RICHARD (SIR)
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BELLEVUE (DELGANY)
Date: 1803
Nature: Chapel and other works, for Peter La Touche.
Refs: A.M. Rowan, ed., The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison (IAA, 1989), 34-35(illus.)

Name: DE GREE, PETER *#
Building: CO. WICKLOW, BELLEVUE (DELGANY)
Date: ?
Nature: Paintings of children (decorative or easel?)
Refs: W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 270