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.
1840s – Dinis Cottage, Killarney, Co. Kerry
Dinis Cottage, a former hunting lodge built by the Herbert family of Muckross House,
1840s – Drumreaske House, Co. Monaghan
Architect: William Walker
Possibly added to by local architect William Walker in a simple tudor style.
1840s – Dunleckney Manor, Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow
Architect: Daniel Robertson
Sir Nicholas Bagenal came to Ulster as Marshal of Elizabeth 1st’s army,
1840s – Former Linden Convalescent Home, Blackrock, Co. Dublin
The original Linden Castle is to the right in our postcard illustration.
