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- 1 2 See Frederick O'Dwyer, "'Modelled Muscularity:' Daniel Robertson's Tudor mansions," Irish Arts Review Yearbook 15 (1999), 91. Cited in Irish Architectural Archive, Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720-1940.DAY, MARTIN (Accessed 12 Oct 2010)
- ↑ See also David Rowe & Eithne Scallan, Houses of Wexford (Ballinakella Press, 2004), no.484
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