1849 – Church of the Immaculate Conception, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
The foundation stone for the present church was laid on the 16th August 1844 by Father Joseph Butler P.P.
The foundation stone for the present church was laid on the 16th August 1844 by Father Joseph Butler P.P.
Now subsumed into a large modern hotel complex l, this former government office was built in two stages,
A two-storey sandstone Jacobethan house designed by English architect James Sands for John William Perceval-Maxwell, of Finnebrogue.
The “Hindu-gothic” Indian gate designed by a local architect Martin Day. The design is a strange combination of Gothic and Oriental styles and is the only Irish example of the Brighton Pavilion style of architecture.
The Queen’s University of Ireland was established by royal charter on 3 September 1850, as the degree-awarding university of the Queen’s Colleges of Belfast,
Detached seven-bay three-storey over basement Italianate house incorporating fabric of earlier house constructed for the Malcomson family,
Seven-arch limestone built viaduct, opened 1849, carrying Cork-Dublin railroad over Blarney River. Rock-faced rusticated piers, walls,
Decorative archway built to welcome Queen Victoria to Cork. Similar archways were built in Belfast and Dublin to mark this and subsequent Royal visits.
Royal triumphal archway constructed at Baggot Street bridge over the Grand Canal, for the occasion of Queen Victoria’s visit to Dublin in 1849.
Thirty-two foot tall triumphal archway constructed for the visit of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to Belfast in 1849. Supposedly the words Cead Mile Failte were inscribed on the reverse side to that illustrated,