1755 – Beauparc, Navan, Co. Meath
Described in Slater’s Directory, 1894 as “the mansion is situated on the summit of a high bank,
Described in Slater’s Directory, 1894 as “the mansion is situated on the summit of a high bank,
Dowth Hall dates from c.1760 and was built for John, Viscount Netterville (1744-1826), and probably designed by George Darley.
Chambers was paid forty guineas for this unexecuted design for a new house with 13-bay garden front,
Designs for internal decorative schemes for Headfort House – the house designed by George Semple in 1769.
An 18th-century lighthouse folly in the form of a giant Doric column, surmounted by glazed lantern,
Suggested to be the work of Francis Johnston, Drumbaragh House is a large substantial block of a house with a stuccoed exterior and a single massive central chimney stack.
The present Gormanston Castle was built ca 1790-1820, on the site of the castle first built in 1372, as a three-storey castellated building with a quadrangular plan and with a tower at three of the four corners.
The Palladian formula of a large central block with lower links and wings used here for a endowed school building funded by Laurence Gilson.
Originally the seat of the Plunkett family, its most famous member being St Oliver Plunkett,
Constructed around 1825, constructed in the Regency style, as a three-bay, two-storey house with a shallow hipped roof and over bracketed frieze with concealed basement.