1783 – Leinster Aqueduct, Sallins, Co. Kildare
Designed by Richard Evans, a canal engineer, the Aqueduct was built in 1783 and carries the Grand Canal over the river Liffey west of Sallins.
Designed by Richard Evans, a canal engineer, the Aqueduct was built in 1783 and carries the Grand Canal over the river Liffey west of Sallins.
An early work of Richard Morrison in a classical style reminiscent of the work of James Gandon.
Originally built as a gaol in 1796 by the Naas Corporation. That body was abolished in 1840, and the building lay empty until it was acquired by their successors,
The Hotel was built in 1803 and was closed as such in 1849. However the building continued in use for various purposes including a RIC barracks and,
Lyons, near Hazlehatch, County Kildare, was originally the seat of the Aylmer family, though they sold it to the 1st Lord Cloncurry who had a new house built in 1797.
In 1807 a Royal Canal Hotel was opened at Moyvalley, between Enfield and Kinnegad. It was reported to have been “the best of its kind and one of the best kept of any in Ireland”
The barracks, originally known as Naas Barracks, were built for local militia units in 1813, and later became the home depot of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers when that regiment was formed in 1881.
Believed to have been built to replace an earlier and similar structure, as John Rocque’s map of 1757 shows a market house in the same location.
In Spring 1813, a tender from Hargrave, a Cork architect and building contractor, was accepted,
Maynooth College was founded in 1795 as a seminary for the education of priests. The College opened in the autumn of 1795 in a house recently built by John Stoyte,