1731 – Summerhill, Co. Meath
Summerhill House was a 100 roomed country house which was the ancestral seat of the Langford Rowley family.
Summerhill House was a 100 roomed country house which was the ancestral seat of the Langford Rowley family.
A Palladian house of two storeys over a basement, joined to two two-storey wings by curved sweeps from around 1733,
Designed by Sir Edward Lovett Pearce for Dean Welbore Ellis. Although it looked like a single house,
Erected to commemorate William of Orange’s victory over King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, and was located near the spot where William’s army crossed the River Boyne to engage James’
The Gill Hall estate was named after a Captain Magill an officer in Cromwell’s Army, prior to the 1641 rebellion he is said to have obtained half the townland of Ballynagarrick from Art Og Magennis for the sum of £150,
Built to replace a decaying medieval cathedral, it retained the tower and spire of the old cathedral. Completed in 1738, it was demolished in 1865 to make way for the present cathedral by William Burges.
Built for the provost of Trinity College, John Hely Hutchinson, it was later acquired in the 1750s by the Fitzgerald dukes of Leinster.
The construction on the house began in 1717, and it was completed in 1742 for George Rochfort on the Rochfort Demesne near Belvedere House and Gardens beside Lough Ennell.
“The old Hall, which extended from the present Campanile in the direction of the College gate,
Constructed between 1744-46 for the then Surveyor General, Arthur Jones Nevill. Llater divided into two separate premises, and shopfronts were also inserted into the Merrion Row facade.