1864 – Houses, Ardagh, Co. Longford
Architect: J. Rawson Carroll
Ardagh is a small designed estate village,
Ardagh is a small designed estate village,
An unusual design, the two storey keeper’s house is made of local granite blocks,
Sited on Donegall Square facing the dominant City Hall,
A rebuilt and revised corner building on a Wide Streets Commissioners plan,
Originally built as a Linen Warehouse for Moore and Weinberg by Lanyon,
The original building was an exact elevational copy of the Natural History Museum by Frederick Clarendon across Leinster Lawn.
Built in a French Gothic style for the Marquess of Clanricarde.
Opened St. Patrick’s Day 1864,
Drawing Courtesy of Andrew Kelly
Waterford originally had two railway stations –
Gothic revival institution not much larger than a large Victorian house “for respectable but reduced aged protestants”,