1830s – Church, Rathdowney, Co. Laois
Replaced by an unremarkable exercise in 1950s Romaneque sited on the then edge of town. This church was pulled down and the site is still a surface carpark.
Replaced by an unremarkable exercise in 1950s Romaneque sited on the then edge of town. This church was pulled down and the site is still a surface carpark.
When the 3rd Viscount de Vesci married Lady Emma Hubert, daughter of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery. The Earl built this stone terrace of houses for the town as part of his daughter’s dowry.
Mainly attributed to Thomas A. Cobden on the basis that the parish priest of the time of construction was the administrator of Carlow during the construction of the cathedral there.
St. Patrick’s is a simple rectangular church with a flat-ceiling interior.
Originally a station on the Great Southern and Western Railway, Portlaoise Railway Station cost upwards of £5,000 to build.
The station opened on 26 June 1847, and was designed by Sanction Wood in a picturesque Gothic style for Great Southern &
Former bank branch for the Bank of Ireland. Probably a converted house, the building has a fine set of Victorian railings to the street.
The spire and tower was added by J.J. McCarthy around 1854 to an earlier church. The earlier building is a simple cruciform church,
A robust and rustic obelisk in the middle of the market square dedicated to the 2nd Viscount de Vesci.
Detached three-bay two-storey gable-fronted former town hall, designed by William Caldbeck and built alongside his bank constructed at the same time for the National Bank.