1750s – Marino House, Clontarf, Co. Dublin
The home of James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont, who was responsible for hiring William Chambers to design the nearby Casino on the estate.
The home of James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont, who was responsible for hiring William Chambers to design the nearby Casino on the estate.
The first Viscount Mountmorris commissioned Castle Morres as one of the largest stately homes in the country and it was built in approximately 1751.
Built as the Dublin home of the Earls of Moira. Later became part of the Mendicity Institute (run by the Association for the Suppression of Mendicancy in Dublin) which mirrored the composition so that the original Moira House was the right hand side of their enlarged building.
The Ballydonagh demesne was bought in 1753 by David La Touche, a rich banker from Dublin of Huguenot extraction. He built a house between 1754 and 1756 at a cost of £30,000 and named it Bellevue.
A Georgian house for Arthur Hill, later Viscount Dungannon, which was added to the North end of an earlier house.
Originally Kildare Place consisted of four houses onto a small square bordered by Kildare Street.
This was the first statue to be erected in St. Stephen’s Green, and was commissioned by Dublin Corporation.
Ballin Temple was a fine three-storey Georgian house with a five-bay entrance front. The centre bay was distinguished by a Venetian window and a pedimented Grecian-Doric porte-cochere.
The original Fitzgerald castle was granted to the Courtenay family in 1591. The Castle was occupied by David Mahony and his son Peirce Mahony in the mid 18th century.
The former Royal Hibernian Hotel dated back to 1751 as a pair of buildings making up a coaching inn, making it one of the country’s first hotels.