1726 – Kenmare House, Co. Kerry
The original Kenmare House was built in 1726 and designed by Viscount Kenmare himself in a French chateau style.
The original Kenmare House was built in 1726 and designed by Viscount Kenmare himself in a French chateau style.
A castle was built on the site by the Anglo-Normans in 1324 to defend their town from the Irish tribes in the adjacent mountain territory.
A castellated Georgian mansion with pointed windows and a turret. Built on the site of an earlier castle,
Large three storey mansion with two storey wings connected by simple curved sweeps.
A substantial house in the Palladian manner of a central block flanked by wings and curved sweeps.
Much extended country house,
Around 1730, Sir Edward Lovett Pearce designed a replacement of Stillorgan House for the 2nd Viscount Allen.
The buildings of St. Wolstan’s priory were probably converted into a house for Sir John Alen before his death in 1561.
The 3-bay centre block is of cut ashlar limestone,
Summerhill House was a 100 roomed country house which was the ancestral seat of the Langford Rowley family.