1863 – Kintullagh Castle, Ballymena, Co. Antrim
Kintullagh Castle, designed in a Jacobean style,
Kintullagh Castle, designed in a Jacobean style,
The original castle was first built around 1474.
An earlier house on the site was built c.1795 and remodelled and extended for John Grubb Richardson,
Constructed by the Irish North Western Railway in 1862-63,
The station opened on 3 September 1863 on the Finn Valley Railway line from Glenties to Stranorlar.
Whiteabbey was the first major stop outside Belfast with the main station building on the up line constructed around 1863 with a canopy added fifty years later.
Incomplete as designed and illustrated, Hague’s fantastically ornate spire wasn’t constructed and was capped off at the top of a simplified version of the tower.
This church designed by local architect William Hague,
Designed by Stewart Gordon between 1835-37,
A stuccoed bow-fronted central bay with a cast-iron balcony in the Regency style lent the Ulster Club an air of dignity in the hustle of Castle Place.