Architecture of Wicklow

1772 – Mount Kennedy, Newtownmountkennedy, Co. Wicklow

A two-storey over basement mansion, to a design originally drawn up by James Wyatt in 1772,

1777 – Avondale House, Co. Wicklow

Avondale House, Avondale, County Wicklow, Ireland is the birthplace and home of Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) one of the greatest political leaders of Irish history.

1789 – Christ Church, Delgany, Co. Wicklow

Architect: Whitmore Davis / Joseph Welland / John McCurdy

Founded in the late 1780s,

1790 – Poulaphouca Bridge, Co. Wicklow

Once this waterfall on the Liffey was once one of the best known in the country,

1790s – Cottage Orné, Delgany, Co. Wicklow

A 1828 drawing in the NUI Galway archives, described it as Mrs.

1811 – Castle Howard, Avoca, Co. Wicklow

Architect: Sir Richard Morrison

Built 1811 around the fabric of an earlier house.

1819 – Shelton Abbey, Arklow, Co. Wicklow

Architect: Sir Richard Morrison

The ancestral seat of the Earls of Wicklow was the palatial Shelton Abbey,

1820 – Killruddery, Bray, Co. Wicklow

Architect: Sir Richard Morrison, William Slater, William Burn

Now a lot smaller than at completion after the Earl of Meath demolished most of the entrance front in the 1950s when the building was discovered to be infested with dry-rot.