1836 – Johnstown Castle, Co. Wexford
The estate has been home to two prominent Wexford families. The first owners were the Esmondes;
The estate has been home to two prominent Wexford families. The first owners were the Esmondes;
A late 17th century house was subsumed into a much larger and ornate building designed by Daniel Robertson of Kilkenny in 1836-38 as a spectacular castle.
Castleboro was a very large, imposing classical mansion built about 1840 for the 1st Baron Carew.
Started in 1839 by General Robert Browne-Clayton as a memorial to his late commander Sir Ralph Abercromby,
St. Patrick’s Church at Clonevan (also spelt Clonevin) is in the Church of Ireland parish of Ardamine,
A seaside villa redesigned and enlarged into a small mock Tudor castle incorporating a fake “medieval”
Tudor Gothic remodelling of house, and landscape scheme, in progress during the period 1835-45 for the Doyne family.
The most striking element of the Old County Gaol is the curiously flat almost cardboard cut outcut-like entrance constructed in 1846.
A monumental cathedral, the largest building in Ireland to designs prepared by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-52) reputedly based on Tintern Abbey in Wales.
On of Wexford’s “twin churches”, these Neo-Gothic buildings were opened in 1858 and the twin spires are part of the unique skyline of the town.