Architecture of Kildare

1858 – Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare

These drawings are from the Narrative of Operations in the Arrangement and Formation of A Camp for 10,000 Infantry on the Curragh of Kildare.

1859 – Water-house and tank, Sallins, Co. Kildare

Fine brick water-house with cast-iron tank above for the provision of water to railway engines in the steam era.

1860 – Court House, Naas, Co. Kildare

Architect: Sir Richard Morrison / John McCurdy / Deaton Lysaght Architects

Richard Morrison’s original building of 1807 stood well back from the pavement on a site which had been chosen in 1797 for a Sessions House to replace the decayed 17th Century building further up the main street.

1860 – Geraldine Hall, Maynooth, Co. Kildare

Architect: E. McAlister

Geraldine Hall, designed by E. McAlister and originally built as a Church of Ireland School. It retains many important early or original features and materials,

1872 – Church of the Sacred Heart & Saint Brigid, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare

Architect: J.J. McCarthy

The foundation stone was laid by Cardinal Cullen on 9th August 1869, and opened on 6th September 1872.

1878 – Firmount, Naas, Co. Kildare

Architect: Noble Colclough

Colclough was a civil engineer and architect, of Dublin, who died at the age of thirty-three on 21 June 1880 and was buried in Mount Jerome cemetery.

1882 – Baptist Church, Harristown, Co. Kildare

Architect: William M. Mitchell

In 1857 John La Touche first heard the preaching of Dr. Spurgeon in London and was gradually won over by his brand of Baptist evangelism.

1882 – Glebe House, Harristown, Co. Kildare

Architect: William M. Mitchell

Constructed along with a small Baptist Church by John La Touch. “The glebe-house is built of grey stock brock with Corsehill stone dressings.”

1882 – Glebe House, Monasterevin, Co. Kildare

Architect: W.I. Chambers

Design by William Isaac Chambers selected in limited competition. Published in The Irish Builder, March 1 1882.

1882 – Grooms Cottage, Monasterevin, Co. Kildare