1730 – Tollymore Park, Bryansford, Co. Down
Much extended country house,
Much extended country 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.
Originally the residence of the Church of Ireland archbishops,
The old Library of Trinity College (old because of a newer neighbour built by Ahrends Burton Koralak) is Thomas Burgh’s masterpiece.