1730 – ffranckfort Castle, Dunkerrin, Co. Offaly
A castellated Georgian mansion with pointed windows and a turret. Built on the site of an earlier castle,
A castellated Georgian mansion with pointed windows and a turret. Built on the site of an earlier castle,
It was built circa 1730 by Luke Gardiner as his own residence.
This street has many houses with Georgian detailing, but this house stands out with its Gibbsian doorway projecting through a curved bay on the front of the house.
Around 1730, Sir Edward Lovett Pearce designed a replacement of Stillorgan House for the 2nd Viscount Allen.
The La Touches were a Huguenots family from the Loire,
The buildings of St. Wolstan’s priory were probably converted into a house for Sir John Alen before his death in 1561.
The ancestral home of the Mcmorrough Kavanaghs,
The site of a church from 1100; however all that is left is the beautiful Hiberno-Romanesque architectural porch and doorway.
The 3-bay centre block is of cut ashlar limestone,
Summerhill House was a 100 roomed country house which was the ancestral seat of the Langford Rowley family.