1789 – Unbuilt Design for a Villa, Cork
Designed for Silver Oliver (1736–1798), Irish MP and Privy Counsellor, but unbuilt. “Plans and Elevation of a Villa,
Designed for Silver Oliver (1736–1798), Irish MP and Privy Counsellor, but unbuilt. “Plans and Elevation of a Villa,
Cobh railway station was originally the terminus of the Queenstown (Cobh) section of the Cork,
A British Naval colonial building, in a high Victorian style with extensive iron verandahs that overlook the sea. These verandahs are very much a feature of other Admiralty Houses around the world.
Catherine McCauley founded the Sisters of Mercy in 1831 in Dublin to care for the poor and the sick and to educate poor children.
Originally constructed 1879 with a later extension to the rear added at cost of £1,000 in 1922. The tower and spire was removed in the 1960s.
The chapel was designed in a Romanesque style to blend in with the existing convent buildings –
Constructed in the early 1770’s for the Bowen family who owned the house until it was sold by the author Elizabeth Bowen in 1959.
The entrance is of rose red brick while the other fronts are of cut sandstone with limestone dressings.
A chapel and choir constructed to designs of George C. Ashlin to the Ursuline Convent, later Presentation Convent.
Large ornate Victorian villa set on a hillside overlooking Cork city centre. Destroyed by fire in 1922. Sidney Park housing estate was developed on the site from 1934 to 1943.