1865 – Railway Station, Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow
Shillelagh railway station opened on 22 May 1865 at the end of a branchline from Woodenbridge via Aughrim and Tinahely. Constructed by the Dublin,
Shillelagh railway station opened on 22 May 1865 at the end of a branchline from Woodenbridge via Aughrim and Tinahely. Constructed by the Dublin,
An eclectic Victorian seaside hotel designed to take advantage of the railways. Later known as the La Touche Hotel.
Rathdrum railway hotel was built by the Dublin & South Eastern Railway as The Royal Fitzwilliam Hotel and opened on 26 October 1863.
Originally a hunting lodge of ca 1750, enlarged as a castellated style house during the early 1800s by John Proby,
“This Glebe House, which is now being erected on a plot of ground opposite Christ Church,
Erected at the same time as the Church of Ireland by the same architect Richard O’Brien Smyth.
Selected after an architectural competition, and constructed between 1882-84. In plan, cruciform with a porch to the north-east and a tower to the south-west.
The Ballydonagh demesne was bought in 1753 by David La Touche, a rich banker from Dublin of Huguenot extraction. He built a house between 1754 and 1756 at a cost of £30,000 and named it Bellevue.
Railway buffet built for the Great Southern Railway, and designed by inhouse architect Gordon Stewart Horner.
Still in use today, it was described at the time of its completion as a ‘very neat little church’.