Life
1814-1843; b. Midleton, Co Cork; son of John Morrison, Arch., a pupil
of Gandon who finished Protestant Cathedral at Cashel; published Useful
and Ornamental Designs in Architecture (1793); intricately planned
villas of which Castlegar (1803) and St Clerans (1811), both in Galway,
are examples; rebuilt Lyons, Co. Kildare, for Lord Cloncurry, c.1810;
remodelled Carton for the Duke of Leinster, c.1815; knighted 1841; designed
the Catholic Pro-Cathedral, Dublin. DNB BREF
Criticism
E McPartland, ‘Sir Richard Morrison’s Country Houses’,
Country Life (24, 31 May 1973).
The Architecture of Richard Morrison 1767-1849 and William Vitruvius Morrison 1794-1838 (Dublin: Irish Architectural Archive 1990), 203pp.
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