1720s – 10 Mill Street, Blackpitts, Dublin
“We publish with present issue a perspective sketch of one of the many interesting old houses of the Queen Anne type to be found in that now almost deserted quarter of our city known as “The Liberties”.
“We publish with present issue a perspective sketch of one of the many interesting old houses of the Queen Anne type to be found in that now almost deserted quarter of our city known as “The Liberties”.
Castletown is the largest and grandest Palladian country house in Ireland.
Erected on a elevated pedestal on the upstream side of what was then Essex Bridge in 1722.
Oakley Park, formerly Celbridge House, was built in 1724 by Arthur Price when he was vicar of Celbridge,
Riversdale House, probably originally had Dutch Billy gables, and was constructed entirely in stone rather than brick.
Designed by Sir Edward Lovett Pearce and was built in 1726 for Sir Marmaduke Coghill who had lived in nearby Belvedere House.
The Corn Market building was a long arcaded structure, the ground floor of which was completely open to the street.
Stillorgan Obelisk was built in 1727 at the instigation of Lord Allen,
In 1722 a centralised Linen Hall was proposed by the Linen Board and several sites around the city were considered and dismissed.
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.