The original Gowran Castle was built in the late 14th century by the Earls of Ormonde. Badly damaged in the Cromwellian wars and was all but a ruin when Charles Agar acquired a lease of it about 1660 and repaired it.
A Palladian house of two storeys over a basement, joined to two two-storey wings by curved sweeps from around 1733,
Large Palladian house with wings, designed by Francis Bindon around 1744 on the site of an earlier house.
Originally built 1845-47 for Sir William Fownes to designs by Francis Bindon. Later extended with flanking wings by William Robertson in 1804-06.
The first Viscount Mountmorris commissioned Castle Morres as one of the largest stately homes in the country and it was built in approximately 1751.
The original Castlecomer House, the family seat of the Wandesfordes, was built in 1638. It was burned down during the battle of Castlecomer in 1798.
Designed and built by William Robertson for 2nd Viscount Clifden. between 1816 and 1819. The centrepiece of the building is the mainfront exhibiting expert masonry in locally-sourced Kilkenny limestone.
Illustrated as designed and built by William Robertson, the domestic wing developed structural problems and soon had to be rebuilt.
Shankill Castle started as a Butler tower-house near the ruins of an old church. Rebuilt in the early 18th century, it received its current character in the 19th century when it was enlarged and castellated.
Kilkenny Castle has been an important site since Strongbow constructed the first building here, a wooden tower in the 12th century.
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