Architect: James Pain & George Pain Also known as Elm Park. Designed by the Pains, for 3rd Baron Clarina, in the late 1820s with further work by Rawson Carroll in the 1880s. Demolished in the 1960s. Related Posts: 1823 – Mitchelstown Castle, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork 1835 – Dromoland Castle, Co. Clare 1825 – Convamore House, [...]
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Charlemont Fort was a garrison built in Charlemont in 1602 by Lord Mountjoy. It was destroyed in 1920 by fire and the only building remaining today is the gatehouse. The 17th century governor’s house within the fort later became the home of the Charlemonts, before Roxborough Castle was constructed. Burnt in 1920. Related Posts: 1820 [...]
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Architect: George Papworth Also known as Lisheen, and now almost completely ruined. Reputed to be haunted, the house was abandoned in the 1920s after repeated attempts to rid the house of its presence failed. Related Posts: 1842 – Roxborough Castle, Moy, Co. Tyrone 1842 – Royal St. George Yacht Club, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin 1852 [...]
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Architect: William Robertson The present house was completed in 1813 to the design of architect William Robertson. Related Posts: 1813 – Mountshannon House, Castleconnell, Co. Limerick 1828 – Clarina Castle, Clarina. Co. Limerick 1852 – Bangor Castle, Co. Down 1813 – Eaton Hall, Cheshire 1765c – Stuart Hall, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone
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Architect: Lewis Wyatt The house was re-modeled in a neo-classical style after 1813 to the designs of Lewis Wyatt. The front 7-bay entrance was adorned by four ionic columns, the rear had a large conservatory. Destroyed by fire in 1920. The rooms were large and spacious, though boasted little internal ornament; a fine hall and [...]
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Architect: James Pain Large classical house built on an elevated site overlooking the River Blackwater, constructed for the 1st Earl of Listowel. It remained the Irish seat of the family until it was burned in 1921, and is now a ruin. Related Posts: 1825 – Design for Fota House, Co. Cork 1823 – Mitchelstown Castle, [...]
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Architect: Edward Blore Blore was reponsible for alterations and enlarging of House for 1st Lord Templetown in 1836-37. There is a fine mausoleum by Robert Adam in the graveyard from 1789. Related Posts: 1852 – Garron Tower, Co. Antrim 1837 – Narrow Water Castle, Warrenpoint, Co. Down 1883 – Antrim Castle, Co. Antrim 1807 – [...]
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A smaller country house from the mid 1840s. A distinctive design with a curved bow end elevation and a bowed portico to the front. Demolished in the 1950s, but the four large Corinthian columns survive, being re-used at the entrance to Portora Royal School, Enniskillen. Related Posts: 1619 – Castle Caldwell, Co. Fermanagh 1840 – [...]
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Architect: Daniel Robertson This is a detached two-storey Tudor Revival country house with half-dormer attic, built c.1830, with three-stage battlemented tower to centre on a square plan, cut stone dressings including mullioned bay and oriel windows, gables, polygonal turret and service wing to side. Related Posts: 1840s – Dunleckney Manor, Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow 1852 – [...]
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Architect: Daniel Robertson Detached four-bay two-storey Tudor Revival house with half-dormer attic, c. 1840, on an asymmetrical plan with granite ashlar façade having carved stone dressings including mullioned bay and oriel windows and gables. Related Posts: 1835 – Ballydarton House, Fenagh, Co. Carlow 1840s – Dunleckney Manor, Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow 1836 – Castleshane, Co. Monaghan [...]
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Architect: William Hastings Rebuilt in 1829 by Major Richardson Brady in a heavily symmetrical and very flat “Regency Baronial” style. Later extended and romanticised by William Hastings who added a four storey tower, a new north front, and a gothic porch. He was also responsible for remodeling the interior around a great hall. This is [...]
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Architect: John Nash Killymoon Castle is one of John Nash’s earliest castles, built ca 1803 for William Stewart MP, incorporating part of the previous house which was burnt ca 1800. Built on a much grander scale than its predecessor; thus, by its completion in 1803, the castle is reputed to have cost the then vast [...]
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Castle Caldwell was built between 1612 and 1619, during the time of the Plantation of Ulster, by the Blennerhassetts, in classic Planter style; a bawn with 2 semi-circular projecting flanker towers and a within it a strong house. In the 1660′s the estate was rented by the Blennerhassetts to the Caldwells, a well to do [...]
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Stuart Hall was built in the 1760s for Baron Stuart, later Viscount Castle Stuart. It was originally a three-storey Georgian house, joined to an old tower-house by a 19th century Gothic wing. More recently, the top two storeys of the main block were removed, before it was destroyed by the IRA in July, 1972. It [...]
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Architect: William Burn This imposing building was built for Robert Edward Ward and his family in 1852. It is now (since the 1950s) the headquarters of North Down Borough Council who use the mansions spectacular grand salon as the council chamber. Related Posts: 1933 – Savoy Hotel, Bangor, Co. Down 1852 – Garron Tower, Co. [...]
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Built in 1820 as a summer house for the family of Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Knox, Rathmullan House is now a small country house hotel. Related Posts: 1820 – Tynan Abbey, Co. Armagh 1863 – Lough Eske Castle, Co. Donegal 1820 – Castle Freke, Co. Cork 1906 – St. Eunan’s College, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal 1852 – [...]
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Architect: Samuel Ussher Roberts House built for Captain O’Hara at a reported cost of £3,500 in the Dublin Builder. Later taken over by the Sisters of Mercy and ran as an Industrial School, known as St. Anne’s. Galway City Council has twice requested the Order hand over the lands for the development of a public [...]
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Architect: Richard Morrison Described in 1837 by Lewis, “About a mile and a half from Athlone on the Leinster side of the Shannon is Moydrum Castle the handsome residence of Viscount Castlemaine a solid castellated mansion with square turrets at each angle beautifully situated on the edge of a small lake and surrounded by an [...]
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A large nine bay, two-storey over basement house with single-bay substantial pavilions to each end. The house and demense changed hands many times over the years. In 1776, the demesne was purchased by Arthur Wolfe, a prominent lawyer and MP. Wolfe subsequently became Lord Chief Justice of Ireland and was raised to the peerage as [...]
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About 3.5 km east of Athenry, Co. Galway, once the country seat of a wealthy Galway family called Persse. The ruins can still be seen today. In the early twentieth century, the demense was briefly considered as a site for an agricultural college to improve farming methods in the area. Related Posts: 1862 – Lenaboy [...]
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