1840 – Toll House, Limerick
Architect: James Pain
This humourous Gothic Style folly with exaggerated crenellations was designed and built by the architect James Pain around 1840.
1841 – Limerick Union Workhouse
Architect: George Wilkinson
Designed to replace the city`s overcrowded poorhouase,
1844 – St Michael’s Church of Ireland, Limerick
Architect: James Pain / William Fogerty
Prior to the construction of this fine Gothic church,
1845 – Leamy House, Upper Hartstonge St., Limerick, Co. Limerick
Architect: William Atkins
Selected after an architectural competition, Atkins’s designs for the former Leamy School are in a Tudor Revival style with a central crenellated tower.
1848 – Castle Oliver / Clonodfoy Castle, Co. Limerick
Architect: G.F. Jones
Also known as Castle Oliver, and constructed by English architect George Fowler Jones between 1845-48 for sisters Elizabeth and Mary Isabella Oliver-Gascoigne.
1848 – Clonodfoy Gateway, Co. Limerick
Architect: G.F. Jones
Extravagent gateway and lodge by George Fowler Jones to accompany the grand baronial castle he designed for the Oliver-Gascoigne sisters.
1854 – Lansdowne Flax Mill / Cleeve’s, Limerick
Constructed as the Lansdowne Spinning and Weaving factory between 1851-54 for John Norris Russell.
1856 – Protestant Orphan Society Hall, Limerick
Architect: William Fogerty
Published in The Builder, January 19,
1858 – Railway Station, Foynes, Co. Limerick
Designed to serve the Patrickswell, Adare, Askeaton and Foynes regions, the Foynes-Limerick rail line was first opened as a passenger line in 1858.
1858 – Railway Station, Limerick, Co. Limerick
Architect: Sancton Wood
Opened on the 28th of August 1858 replacing an earlier,
