1726 – Kenmare House, Co. Kerry
The original Kenmare House was built in 1726, and designed by Viscount Kenmare himself in a French chateau style. The house was two stories high and had dormered attics with steep,
1729 – Archiepiscopal Palace, Tallaght, Co. Dublin
A castle was built on the site by the Anglo-Normans in 1324 to defend their town from the Irish tribes in the adjacent mountain territory.
1730 – Bellamont Forest, Cootehill, Co. Cavan
Architect: Sir Edward Lovett Pearce
Built between 1725 and 1730 for Thomas Coote, once Lord Justice of Ireland, and designed by Coote’s gifted nephew,
1730 – ffranckfort Castle, Dunkerrin, Co. Offaly
A castellated Georgian mansion with pointed windows and a turret. Built on the site of an earlier castle, it incorporated part of the original fabric and the moat and fortified walls.
1730 – French Park, Co. Roscommon
Architect: Richard Cassels
Large three storey mansion with two storey wings connected by simple curved sweeps. Similar in design to houses at Strokestown and the Bishop’s Palace at Elphin.
1730 – Strokestown Park, Co. Roscommon
Architect: Richard Cassels / J. Lynn
A substantial house in the Palladian manner of a central block flanked by wings and curved sweeps.
1730 – Tollymore Park, Bryansford, Co. Down
Architect: Thomas Wright / Charles Lanyon / James Rawson Carroll
Much extended country house, around four sides of a courtyard,
1730s – Design for Stillorgan House, Co. Dublin
Architect: Edward Lovett Pearce
Around 1730, Sir Edward Lovett Pearce designed a replacement of Stillorgan House for the 2nd Viscount Allen.
1730s – St Wolstan’s, Celbridge, Co. Kildare
The buildings of St. Wolstan’s priory were probably converted into a house for Sir John Alen before his death in 1561.
1731 – Borris House, Borris, Co. Carlow
Architect: Richard Morrison & William Vitruvius Morrison
The ancestral home of the Mcmorrough Kavanaghs, High Kings of Leinster, and originally an important castle guarding the River Barrow,
