1772 – Mount Kennedy, Newtownmountkennedy, Co. Wicklow
A two-storey over basement mansion, to a design originally drawn up by James Wyatt in 1772,
A two-storey over basement mansion, to a design originally drawn up by James Wyatt in 1772,
Avondale House, Avondale, County Wicklow, Ireland is the birthplace and home of Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) one of the greatest political leaders of Irish history.
Founded in the late 1780s, built by Peter La Touche at a cost of £5,000 and possibly designed by Whitmore Davis,
Once this waterfall on the Liffey was once one of the best known in the country, but was reduced to a trickle when the hydroelectric scheme was built in the 1940’s.
A 1828 drawing in the NUI Galway archives, described it as Mrs. Latouche’s cottage in the Glen of the Downs, Co.
Built 1811 around the fabric of an earlier house. The house is designed part in Romantic Castle style and part in Abbey style.
The ancestral seat of the Earls of Wicklow was the palatial Shelton Abbey, near Arklow,
Now a lot smaller than at completion after the Earl of Meath demolished most of the entrance front in the 1950s when the building was discovered to be infested with dry-rot.
Tudor Gothic extension including a new entrance front, landscaping, stables, and probably the cottage orné gate lodge,
George Wilkinson designed stations for Dalkey, Foxrock, Greystones, Killoughter, and Wicklow; for the Dublin & Wicklow Railway Co.