1869 – Waterpark, Clonlara, Co. Clare
Home to the Bindon, Phelps, Massey, Williams, Hartigan, Latham, Houlihan and Conway families. It was a very large,
Home to the Bindon, Phelps, Massey, Williams, Hartigan, Latham, Houlihan and Conway families. It was a very large,
Started in 1878 and completed by March 1889. The clock tower 150 ft high. Cost: £21,000.
Unbuilt proposal for a new mineral baths spa building at Lisdoonvarna, Co. Clare.
Hotel renovated and extended to design of local civil engineer Civil engineer Richard Dowling around 1925-26.
Shannon was selected in the mid 1930’s as a site for a transatlantic airport. A group that included the pioneering aviator Charles Lindbergh,
The church that launched a career. Liam McCormick, born in Derry, was working as an architect and planner at the Ballymena Urban District Council when he won with Frank Corr (1917 -1986) a RIAI organised competition for a new church at Ennistymon in 1947.
In 1957, The Shannon Airport Development Authority (SADA) was set up with the aim to make Shannon Airport more appealing through the promotion of freight traffic and the development of nearby tourist facilities.
By the mid 1950s because of jet aircraft development, transatlantic flights were able to pass over Shannon instead of landing for refuelling.
Said to be inspired by the Catholic cathedral of Coventry, England, the Church of the Immaculate Conception &
Large 95-bedroom hotel on the Atlantic coastline built by a Dutch company and financed by Irish Life and Bord Failte. Wrecked by vandals in 1975 after it closed,