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.
Small country house, rebuilt in the 1750s.
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.
Described in Slater’s Directory, 1894 as “the mansion is situated on the summit of a high bank,
There has been a castle at Glenarm since the 13th century, and it is at the heart of one of Northern Ireland’s oldest estates.
Dowth Hall dates from c.1760 and was built for John, Viscount Netterville (1744-1826), and probably designed by George Darley.
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.
Florence Court is romantically named after the wife of Sir John Cole who first built a house on the spectacular site in the early 18th century.
Marlay House was built by Thomas Taylor and was originally known as ‘The Grange’. David La Touche, first governor of the newly established Bank of Ireland acquired and extended the house in 1764 and renamed it for his wife Elizabeth Marlay.