1909 – Post Office, Tullamore, Co. Offaly
An unusual Post Office building on O’Connor Square, the building boasts this unusual doorway,
An unusual Post Office building on O’Connor Square, the building boasts this unusual doorway,
Nicely sited on the bank of a small river, the Bridge House Hotel has an interesting shop front with nice early twentieth century detailing in the window frames and doors.
Built by T. F. McNamara for Malachy Scally as a drapery emporium between 1911-14 at a cost of £5,000,
After the second Durrow Abbey House was gutted by fire during the Civil War in 1923.
Scott’s hospital at Tullamore, although faced with traditional limestone masonry, has a very strong horizontal linearity and glazed stairwell that show a Dutch Modernist influence in the massing and the use of a round bay in the centre of the main block.
Occupying the site of a Victorian house in the main affluent area of the town, the building was designed around the gardens of the house.