1790 – Poulaphouca Bridge, Co. Wicklow
Once this waterfall on the Liffey was once one of the best known in the country, but was reduced to a trickle when the hydroelectric scheme was built in the 1940’s.
Once this waterfall on the Liffey was once one of the best known in the country, but was reduced to a trickle when the hydroelectric scheme was built in the 1940’s.
Built 1811 around the fabric of an earlier house. The house is designed part in Romantic Castle style and part in Abbey style.
The ancestral seat of the Earls of Wicklow was the palatial Shelton Abbey, near Arklow,
Now a lot smaller than at completion after the Earl of Meath demolished most of the entrance front in the 1950s when the building was discovered to be infested with dry-rot.
Tudor Gothic extension including a new entrance front, landscaping, stables, and probably the cottage orné gate lodge,
George Wilkinson designed stations for Dalkey, Foxrock, Greystones, Killoughter, and Wicklow; for the Dublin & Wicklow Railway Co.
Based on the principals of Dr. Richard Barter who was reponsible for a number of similar establishments in Ireland,
The Carmelite presence in Delgany dates back to 1844 when a monastic community was founded from Warrenmount in Dublin.
Detached two-bay two-storey former bath house, constructed by John Kelly and provided hot, cold and open sea baths. To the north side is an enclosed rear yard.
A largely uniform terrace of eight houses built in 1860. A veranda and first floor Regency style balcony, with Chinoiserie railings.