1720 – Temple, Drumcondra House, Dublin
Designed as a folly for Drumcondra House and probably designed by Alessandro Galilei and built between 1718 and 1720.
Designed as a folly for Drumcondra House and probably designed by Alessandro Galilei and built between 1718 and 1720.
In the eighteenth century as the Georgian streetscape of Dublin was being developed, the castle was redeveloped also. A young architect believed to be Sir Edward Lovett Pearce redesigned the upper yard using the basic design inherited from Sir William Robinson.
“We publish with present issue a perspective sketch of one of the many interesting old houses of the Queen Anne type to be found in that now almost deserted quarter of our city known as “The Liberties”.
Erected on a elevated pedestal on the upstream side of what was then Essex Bridge in 1722.
Riversdale House, probably originally had Dutch Billy gables, and was constructed entirely in stone rather than brick. Constructed about 1725 by a Dublin lawyer called John Fitzpatrick who sold it shortly afterwards to a legal colleague,
Designed by Sir Edward Lovett Pearce and was built in 1726 for Sir Marmaduke Coghill who had lived in nearby Belvedere House.
The Corn Market building was a long arcaded structure, the ground floor of which was completely open to the street. With thirteen arches on each side,
Stillorgan Obelisk was built in 1727 at the instigation of Lord Allen, probably to provide local employment that year.
In 1722 a centralised Linen Hall was proposed by the Linen Board and several sites around the city were considered and dismissed.
A castle was built on the site by the Anglo-Normans in 1324 to defend their town from the Irish tribes in the adjacent mountain territory.
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