1808 – Cabra Castle, Kingscourt, Co. Cavan
The current Cabra Castle was constructed in a mixture of a neo-Norman-style and the more decoratively-based Gothick-style in the first decade of the 19th-century.
The current Cabra Castle was constructed in a mixture of a neo-Norman-style and the more decoratively-based Gothick-style in the first decade of the 19th-century.
Designed by the Cavan-born church architect William Hague and was dedicated on the 12th April 1868.
Described in the late 1830s: “The new palace is built in the Grecian Doric style and covered with Roman cement.
Constructed around 1810 for the Cavendish Butler family. Burned out in the early 1920s and now an ivy-clad ruin
The remains of a 13th century church and round tower. St Mary’s Priory was established here on the northern banks of Garfiney Lough in the 12th century for Augustinian Canons.
Corglass Congregation was founded in 1714. Still in use today.
Built to replace an older Church which had been erected about 1770. This older Church was known as 2nd Bailieborough and is now demolished with just the graveyard remaining.
St. Anne’s Roman Catholic Church was erected in 1839 and replaced an older Church near to this site which was described as a long thatched Chapel,
Erected as an Agricultural Training School with suitable offices and a 48 acre farm attached. Intended as a training school where eight pupils boarded and were taught both the theory and practice of modern and scientific methods of farming.
The Model Schools were erected between 1848 and 1850, the costs of which was funded by Sir John Young,