1880s – Marlborough House, Glasnevin, Dublin
Marlborough House was a large domestic dwelling which had been used as a teacher training college.
Marlborough House was a large domestic dwelling which had been used as a teacher training college.
Proposed by the Resident Magistrates of Ireland,
Costing £800, the Great Palm House, which was made of wood and iron,
Premiated designs for memorial to Roman Catholic Prelate Cardinal MacCabe.
Described as “A remarkable monument of great beauty, designed and executed with much artistic skill,
“The terms of the competition required two designs — the second to be a treatment of a cross.
Designed by George Coppinger Ashlin to upstage the recently completed church by J.J.
Built by James Boyd of Glasgow as the Succulents,
Sadly uncompleted, the tower being capped at the second stage,
Constructed in 1908, and extended in 1911 and 1919,