1853 – Great Industrial Exhibition, Dublin
The Great Industrial Exhibition in 1853 was the largest international event to be held in Ireland.
The Great Industrial Exhibition in 1853 was the largest international event to be held in Ireland.
Begun 1851, for Midland Great Western Railway Co., and designed by J. S. Mulvany who also designed Ceannt Station to which it is attached.
A vast and magnificent mill complex constructed by the Herdman family, who also built the model village and their home here.
French style house constructed in the mid 1800s to designs of English architect Lewis Vulliam. The conservatory was originally constructed for the 1902 Cork Exhibition,
A long galleried shop, probably reminiscent of similar constructed in London at this time. The facade notable for its three-storied window.
A single-storey Italianate style railway station, built 1853, with three-bay central limestone entrance porch flanked by advanced pedimented single-bays.
The railway terminus for the Great Southern and Western Railway, directly opposite their hotel property. The hotel is considered to be one of the first hotels owned by a railway company in the British Isles.
The school was built in 1853 at the expense of Richard White, Earl of Bantry. It opened as a school on 29th January 1855 and opened as a National School on 1st May 1871.