1859 – St. Austin’s Abbey, Tullow, Co. Carlow
St. Austin’s Abbey was built in the 1850’s by Charles Henry Doyne youngest son of Robert Doyne.
St. Austin’s Abbey was built in the 1850’s by Charles Henry Doyne youngest son of Robert Doyne.
Fine smaller country house with conservatory and prominent central chimney stack. Still standing today and largely as illustrated in this postcard including the small conservatory.
The story of Durrow Abbey House is framed by two fires. One in 1843 when the house was under construction destroyed the adjacent Georgian mansion and all the furnishings stored there,
An eight-bay two-storey over basement house with dormer attic, built c.1860 by the Purdon family, with two-bay projecting back to left hand side and conservatory to right hand side.
During the 1860s, the house was owned by Jonathan Richardson MP, who had Alfred Waterhouse rebuilt the earlier house to the style of the time.
Victorian house, the home of the 1st and indeed last Lord Lisgar, who was Governor of New South Wales, and later Governor-General of Canada.
From The Building News, January 18 1861: “THE engraving presents a view of an Elizabethan mansion,
A house on site of Castle View House, constructed for Countess of Glengall. Underwhelming exercise in a Baronial style,
Belonging to the Shirley family for hundreds of years, in 1858, Evelyn Philip Shirley, “finding the property in much need of repair”,
The house was heavily remodelled and extended for George Perry McClintock. in 1862 to a design by Derry and Belfast-based architects Boyd &