1840 – St Michael’s Church, Portarlington, Co. Laois
Architect: Thomas A. Cobden / T.F. McNamara
Mainly attributed to Thomas A.
1840 – St. Mary’s Cathedral, Killarney, Co. Kerry
Architect: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
In 1840 a local fundraising committee commissioned Augustus Welby Pugin to design a new cathedral,
1840 – St. Mary’s Church, Lucan, Co. Dublin
Officially “The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary”,
1840 – St. Mary’s Church, Maynooth, Co. Kildare
Work stated in 1834 on a new parish church for Maynooth and in 1840 the new parish church of St.
1840 – St. Patrick’s Church, Ballyroan, Co. Laois
St. Patrick’s is a simple rectangular church with a flat-ceiling interior.
1840 – The Scotch House, Burgh Quay, Dublin
A famous bar and lounge, now demolished. Replaced with a terrible office building whose sole concession to the historic buildings removed for its construction is a rounded corner with the quay.
1840 – The Victoria Hall, Belfast, Co. Antrim
Architect: Thomas Jackson
Constructed as the Victoria Music Hall,
1840 – Toll House, Limerick
Architect: James Pain
This humourous Gothic Style folly with exaggerated crenellations was designed and built by the architect James Pain around 1840.
1840s – Ballymascanlon House, Dundalk, Co. Louth
Now part of a larger hotel complex – the house was remodelled from a late 18th century house into a Tudor Gothic mansion circa 1840.
1840s – Clotworthy Arts Centre, Antrim, Co. Antrim
Clotworthy Arts Centre was built in the 1840s as a coach house and stables for Antrim Castle.
