1731 – Furness House, Naas, Co. Kildare
The 3-bay centre block is of cut ashlar limestone, with pilasters and lions around the door.
The 3-bay centre block is of cut ashlar limestone, with pilasters and lions around the door.
Summerhill House was a 100 roomed country house which was the ancestral seat of the Langford Rowley family.
Ballyhaise House was built for the Newburghs, a local landowning family, in the 1730s. Richard Cassels (1690-1751) was of German origin and also known as Richard Castle.
A Palladian house of two storeys over a basement, joined to two two-storey wings by curved sweeps from around 1733,
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,
Mount Ievers was built between 1733 and 1737 for Henry Ievers to the design of John Rothery a local architect.
In 1739, the 19th Earl of Kildare employed Richard Castle to build the existing house replacing an earlier buildng.
Built for the provost of Trinity College, John Hely Hutchinson, it was later acquired in the 1750s by the Fitzgerald dukes of Leinster.
Originally built in 1740 as a hunting lodge for Robert Rochfort, 1st Earl of Belvedere by architect Richard Cassels,
An unusual smaller country house that was probably constructed around 1740. The main front has a blank attic storey leaving the small pediment stranded above an expanse of un-decorated wall between a string course and cornice.