{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox architect |name = Davis Ducart |image = |caption = |nationality = |birth_name = |birth_date = 1699 |birth_place = [[Piedmont]], [[Italy]] |death_date = 1781 |death_place = Drumrea, [[County Tyrone]] |alma_mater = |practice = |significant_buildings = [[Castletown Cox]]<br />[[The Custom House, Limerick]] |awards = |website = }} '''Davis Ducart''' (active from c. 1761, died 1780/81), was an architect and [[engineer]] in [[Ireland]] in the 1760s and 1770s. He designed several large buildings and engineering projects. He had associations with the canal builders of the time and the mining industry and worked on many projects in the [[County Tyrone]] coalfield.<ref name="dia">{{cite web|url=http://www.dia.ie/architects/view/1660#tab_biography|title=Dictionary of Irish Architects - DUCART, DAVIS|publisher=dia.ie|accessdate=2014-06-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Ducart, Davis - Dictionary of Irish Biography |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/ducart-davis-a2800 |website=www.dib.ie |access-date=4 October 2021}}</ref>
==Early life and identity== His origins are uncertain, but thought to be [[Piedmont]]ese and/or [[Sardinia]]n his original name was Daviso de Arcort.<ref>{{cite book |last=De Breffny |first=Brian |author-link= |date=1983 |title=Ireland: A Cultural Encyclopedia |url= |location=London |publisher=Thames and Hudson |page=77 |isbn=}}</ref> No relatives were mentioned in his [[Will and testament|will]].<ref name="lifetimelab">{{cite web|url=http://www.lifetimelab.ie/didyouknow/davisducart/ |title=Davis Ducart > Lifetime Lab |publisher=lifetimelab.ie |accessdate=2014-06-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140602195600/http://www.lifetimelab.ie/didyouknow/davisducart/ |archivedate=2014-06-02 }}</ref>
Richard Killeen (2012) states that Ducart was an architect from Sardinia.<ref>Richard Killeen, ''Ireland in Brick and Stone: The Island's History in Its Buildings'' (2012), [https://books.google.com/books?id=vuH4AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT120 p. 120]</ref>
==Major projects in Ireland== In the mid 1700s Ducart worked as an engineer on the [[Coalisland Canal]] (known as [[Dukart's Canal]]) and the [[Newry Canal]] which linked County Tyrone coalfields to further navigation at [[Coalisland]].<ref>De Breffny, pg. 77</ref> In [[Limerick]] Ducart produced the plan of plots to be leased in the [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]] extension of the city known as [[Newtown Pery, Limerick|Newtown Pery]] and also those of the [[The Custom House, Limerick|Custom House]] (1769), now home to the [[Hunt Museum]].<ref name="archiseek">{{cite web|url=http://archiseek.com/2009/1769-hunt-museum-former-custom-house-limerick/#.UxTfV1zSTwI|title=1769 - Hunt Museum (former Custom House), Limerick - Architecture of Limerick - Archiseek.com|date=11 November 2009|publisher=archiseek.com|accessdate=2014-06-01}}</ref><ref name="huntmuseum">{{cite web|url=http://www.huntmuseum.com/about-us/the-building.aspx |title=Hunt Museum | About Us | The Building |publisher=huntmuseum.com |accessdate=2014-06-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140602195721/http://www.huntmuseum.com/about-us/the-building.aspx |archivedate=2014-06-02 }}</ref>
==Other buildings== *[[Castletown Cox]], [[County Kilkenny]] (1767)<ref>De Breffny, pg. 77</ref> *Brockley Park, [[County Laois]] (1768) *Drishane House, County Cork. *Kilshannig, County Cork (1765-66) - for Abraham Devonshire<ref name="ihh">{{cite web|url=http://www.ihh.ie/houses/64/Kilshannig/index.cfm|title=Irish Historic Houses Association - House Search|publisher=ihh.ie|accessdate=2014-06-01|archive-date=19 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140519104349/http://www.ihh.ie/houses/64/Kilshannig/index.cfm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="nuigalway">{{cite web|url=http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/property-show.jsp?id=2929||title=Kilshannig|publisher=landedestates.nuigalway.ie|accessdate=2014-06-01|archive-date=3 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203125335/http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/property-show.jsp?id=2929||url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Kilshannig |url=https://www.igs.ie/conservation/project/kilshannig |website=Irish Georgian Society |access-date=4 October 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *Lota Lodge, County Cork (1765)<ref name="viennawoodshotel">{{cite web|url=http://www.viennawoodshotel.com/about-us.html|title=Cork Hotels I Cork City Accommodation I Trabolgan Hotels|publisher=viennawoodshotel.com|accessdate=2014-06-01}}</ref> *Mayoralty (or Mansion) House, [[Cork (city)|Cork]], County Cork (1766)<ref>De Breffny, pg.77</ref> *[[Florence Court]], [[County Fermanagh]].<ref name="archiseek2">{{cite web|url=http://archiseek.com/2009/florence-court-enniskillen-co-fermanagh/#.UxTe1lzSTwI|title=1764 - Florence Court, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh - Architecture of Fermanagh - Archiseek.com|date=25 September 2009|publisher=archiseek.com|accessdate=2014-06-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Christie |first1=Christopher |title=The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G-wOz1kFCdMC&dq=david+ducart&pg=PA71 |publisher=Manchester University Press |access-date=4 October 2021 |language=en |date=2000|isbn=9780719047251 }}</ref> *Castlecore House, [[Ballymahon]], [[County Longford]] *Crosshaven House, Knocknagore, [[County Cork]].
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