1820s – Ardamine, Gorey, Co. Wexford
In 1818 Solomon Richards, a Dublin Surgeon, bought Ardamine estate. In 1812,
In 1818 Solomon Richards, a Dublin Surgeon, bought Ardamine estate. In 1812,
A seaside villa redesigned and enlarged into a small mock Tudor castle incorporating a fake “medieval”
Tudor Gothic remodelling of house, and landscape scheme,
Aan impressive church built in the ‘Modern English style’
Erected to the design by George Edmund Street both as a parish Church of Ireland and later as a memorial to Solomon Augustus Richards (1828-74) and Sophia Mordaunt Richards (1829-99) of nearby Ardamine House.
Courtown House, near Gorey, was the seat of the Earls of Courtown.
Largely remodelled by G.C. Ashlin in the late 1860s for local MP Sir John Esmonde,
Constructed in several stages after the previous house by George Semple,