1880s – Castle Erin / Golf Hotel, Portrush, Co. Antrim
Former hotel built between railway line and coast to service Portrush’s links course.
Former hotel built between railway line and coast to service Portrush’s links course.
The coming of the railway to Killarney in 1853 was of great benefit to the the tourism industry in Kerry and actively promoted by the railway companies.
In 1861 the London and North Western Railway Company which had been operating a steam packet service across the Irish Sea,
Constructed between 1882 and 1884,
A Dublin landmark,
Later aquired by the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway and rebuilt to designs by Berkeley Deane Wise.
Hotels were built in coastal locations usually close to railway stations in the most fashionable architectural styles of the time,
Illustration for building described as Sutton House and also as a “design for a hotel”,
Long established and rambling cluster of hotel buildings,
Served by a small station by the Great Southern Railways Company,