1790 – Emo Court, Portarlington, Co. Laois
Designed by the architect James Gandon in 1790 for John Dawson,
Designed by the architect James Gandon in 1790 for John Dawson,
Set in an old graveyard, now only the tower remains of this former Church of Ireland.
An obelisk with 4 sundials with a drinking fountain at its base,
Strokestown is noted for its wide streets. It is said that they were made this way because the second Lord Hartland of Strokestown wanted to make his village thoroughfare wider than the famed Ringstrasse in Vienna.
Built for the 1st Earl of Donoughmore c.1790, it received alterations and additions in the 19th and 20th centuries in the Georgian style.
The former Market house is a charming building of three blocks pyramidally arranged.
Large country house with the typical Irish Palladian composition of a seven-bay three-storey central block,
Dr. Drummond’s Meeting-House, Second Congregation, Rosemary Street, was built 1790, and demolished 1964.
One of the original plots of Dame Street from when it was widened by the Wide Streets Commissioners,
Once this waterfall on the Liffey was once one of the best known in the country,