1730 – French Park, Co. Roscommon
Large three storey mansion with two storey wings connected by simple curved sweeps. Similar in design to houses at Strokestown and the Bishop’s Palace at Elphin.
Large three storey mansion with two storey wings connected by simple curved sweeps. Similar in design to houses at Strokestown and the Bishop’s Palace at Elphin.
Much extended country house, around four sides of a courtyard,
The La Touches were a Huguenots family from the Loire, who fled to Holland on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
Summerhill House was a 100 roomed country house which was the ancestral seat of the Langford Rowley family.
A Palladian house of two storeys over a basement, joined to two two-storey wings by curved sweeps from around 1733,
Designed by Sir Edward Lovett Pearce for Dean Welbore Ellis. Although it looked like a single house,
Erected to commemorate William of Orange’s victory over King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, and was located near the spot where William’s army crossed the River Boyne to engage James’
The Gill Hall estate was named after a Captain Magill an officer in Cromwell’s Army, prior to the 1641 rebellion he is said to have obtained half the townland of Ballynagarrick from Art Og Magennis for the sum of £150,
Designed by Richard Cassels for Thomas Taylor, afterwards 1st Lord Headfort and Earl of Bective. It included extensive stables running back to Queen Street.
Built to replace a decaying medieval cathedral, it retained the tower and spire of the old cathedral. Completed in 1738, it was demolished in 1865 to make way for the present cathedral by William Burges.
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