1730s – La Touche Bank, Cork Hill, Dublin
The La Touches were a Huguenots family from the Loire, who fled to Holland on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
The La Touches were a Huguenots family from the Loire, who fled to Holland on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
The old Library of Trinity College (old because of a newer neighbour built by Ahrends Burton Koralak) is Thomas Burgh’s masterpiece.
Designed by Sir Edward Lovett Pearce for Dean Welbore Ellis. Although it looked like a single house,
This is probably Richard Cassel’s first independent work in Dublin. It is a little building with a doric temple front,
Designed by Richard Cassels for Thomas Taylor, afterwards 1st Lord Headfort and Earl of Bective. It included extensive stables running back to Queen Street.
Like Iveagh House further along St Stephen’s Green, Newman House is obviously two houses planted together due to the lack of a unifying facade.
Cassels designed this Dublin town house for Marcus Beresford, Earl of Tyrone, in Marlborough Street between 1740 and 1745.
In 1743 the dilapidated old church of the parish of Clonturk was rebuilt by a Miss Coghill as a memorial to her brother,
Leinster House was designed by Richard Cassels in 1745 for the Earls of Kildare and Leinster,
“The old Hall, which extended from the present Campanile in the direction of the College gate,
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