1840 – St. Mary’s Cathedral, Killarney, Co. Kerry
In 1840 a local fundraising committee commissioned Augustus Welby Pugin to design a new cathedral,
In 1840 a local fundraising committee commissioned Augustus Welby Pugin to design a new cathedral,
Officially “The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary”, but known as St. Mary’s to the people of Lucan.
Work stated in 1834 on a new parish church for Maynooth and in 1840 the new parish church of St. Mary’s was consecrated.
St. Patrick’s is a simple rectangular church with a flat-ceiling interior.
“The builder was Edward Flood and accepted price for materials is interesting to scan, Bricks were 2/15 a thousand.
A famous bar and lounge, now demolished. Replaced with a terrible office building whose sole concession to the historic buildings removed for its construction is a rounded corner with the quay.
Constructed as the Victoria Music Hall, later the Church of Ireland YMCA in 1882, and later becoming a Gospel Hall for the Plymouth Brethern around 1916.
This humourous Gothic Style folly with exaggerated crenellations was designed and built by the architect James Pain around 1840.
Now part of a larger hotel complex – the house was remodelled from a late 18th century house into a Tudor Gothic mansion circa 1840.
A smaller country house from the mid 1840s. A distinctive design with a curved bow end elevation and a bowed portico to the front.
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