1883 – Carrollstown House, Trim, Co. Meath

Completed by June 1883, for P.J. Dunne, JP. Destroyed by fire in 1938 and demolished. The family renovated the stables to become a house.

“The entrance hall is beautifully laid out with encaustic tiles, and is separated from the staircase or inner hall by marble columns, having Corinthian capitals; the stairs is lighted by a stained glass dome. All the carpenter work of the interior is finished in selected pitch pine; and the pilasters, architraves, and entablature of the doors and windows on principal storey are elaborately enriched by carving in the same material. The plastering of the interior walls is all finished in grey coating, and the ceilings finished with chaste cornices and centres”. The Irish Builder, June 15 1883

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