1730s – Design for Stillorgan House, Co. Dublin
Around 1730, Sir Edward Lovett Pearce designed a replacement of Stillorgan House for the 2nd Viscount Allen.
Around 1730, Sir Edward Lovett Pearce designed a replacement of Stillorgan House for the 2nd Viscount Allen.
The La Touches were a Huguenots family from the Loire, who fled to Holland on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
Newbridge House is a very fine example of a Georgian mansion within Newbridge Demesne Regional Park. It was built by Archbishop Charles Cobbe in 1736 and remained the family home of the Cobbe family until 1985 when it was acquired by the County Council.
Originally an 18th century house with a two storey bow fronted centre and single storey wings. In the early 19th century,
Built for the provost of Trinity College, John Hely Hutchinson, it was later acquired in the 1750s by the Fitzgerald dukes of Leinster.
The Obelisk bears the inscription: “Last year being hard with the poor, walks about these hills and this were erected by John Mapas,
The Bottle Tower or Hall’s Barn, was commissioned in 1743 by Major Hall of Whitehall House, Co. Dublin. Although the house is gone,
Skerries has a long tradition of harnessing wind and water power, and in the period 1821 to 1839 two working windmills are recorded.
The harbour comprises of two limestone piers with lighthouse positioned at end of east pier. The East pier is largely of limestone rubble with concrete poured on main pathway while west pier is of coursed limestone blocks.
Marlay House was built by Thomas Taylor and was originally known as ‘The Grange’. David La Touche, first governor of the newly established Bank of Ireland acquired and extended the house in 1764 and renamed it for his wife Elizabeth Marlay.