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.
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.
A castellated Georgian mansion with pointed windows and a turret. Built on the site of an earlier castle,
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.