1840 – Gywn’s Institution, Brooke Park, Derry
Architect: Samuel Jackman
John Gwyn was a local businessman, who was born near Muff in County Donegal in 1754.
1840 – Ravensdale Park, Dundalk, Co. Louth
Architect: Thomas Duff
Constructed in an austere Italianate style, by Thomas Duff of Nerwy, For 1st Baron Clermont. Later changes by Lanyon &
1840 – Bank of Ireland, 32 South Mall, Cork
Architect: Thomas Deane
New bank by ‘Mssrs. Deane’, Thomas Deane & Co., comprising Thomas and his brother Kearns, on site formerly occupied by Harbour Commissioners’
1840 – The Victoria Hall, Belfast, Co. Antrim
Architect: Thomas Jackson
Constructed as the Victoria Music Hall, later the Church of Ireland YMCA in 1882, and later becoming a Gospel Hall for the Plymouth Brethern around 1916.
1840 – Magheramenagh Castle, Belleek, Co. Fermanagh
Architect: John B. Keane
Constructed between 1835 and 1840, with the design exhibited at the RHA in 1840. In the Tudor-Gothic style,
1840 – Pembroke Row, Abbeyleix, Co. Laois
When the 3rd Viscount de Vesci married Lady Emma Hubert, daughter of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery. The Earl built this stone terrace of houses for the town as part of his daughter’s dowry.
1840 – The Garrison Church, The Rocks, Sydney, Australia
Architect: Henry Ginn
“The builder was Edward Flood and accepted price for materials is interesting to scan, Bricks were 2/15 a thousand.
1840 – St. Patrick’s Church, Ballyroan, Co. Laois
St. Patrick’s is a simple rectangular church with a flat-ceiling interior.
1840 – St. Mary’s Church, Lucan, Co. Dublin
Officially “The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary”, but known as St. Mary’s to the people of Lucan.
1840s – Innismore Hall, Derrybrusk, Co. Fermanagh
A smaller country house from the mid 1840s. A distinctive design with a curved bow end elevation and a bowed portico to the front.
