1730 – Tollymore Park, Bryansford, Co. Down
Architect: Thomas Wright / Charles Lanyon / James Rawson Carroll
Much extended country house, around four sides of a courtyard,
J. Rawson Carroll (1830-1911)
In 1857 set up his own practice at 180 Great Brunswick St. By 1870 he had been appointed architect to the United Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh. In 1882 Carroll took his nephew and pupil John Howard Pentland into partnership. However he left to jin the Board of Public Works in 1884. In 1892, Carroll formed a new partnership Carroll & Batchelor with his chief assistant, Frederick Batchelor, which lasted until his retirement in 1905. Besides Batchelor and Pentland, Carroll’s assistants included Frederick G. Hicks who later went into partnership with Batchelor, as Batchelor & Hicks which operated from 1905 to 1922.
1824 – St. Philip and St. James Church, Booterstown, Co. Dublin
Architect: John Bowden & J. Rawson Carroll
Constructed on a site donated by the Earl of Pembroke and funded a grant by the Board of First Fruits,
1827 – St Mary’s Church of Ireland, Athlone, Co. Westmeath
Architect: Richard Richards / Rawson Carroll
Designed by Richard Richards, an architect and builder from Roscommon, to the usual Board of First Fruits plan.
1860 – Molyneux Church and Asylum for Blind Females, Leeson Park, Dublin
Architect: J. Rawson Carroll
Winning entry for an architectural competition held in late 1859 to design asylum and adjoining Christ Church.
1861 – Featherstone Memorial, Ardagh, Co. Longford
Architect: J. Rawson Carroll
Constructed as a clocktower and memorial to Sir Ralph Featherstone by his widow Elizabeth.A rdagh is a small designed estate village,
1864 – Houses, Ardagh, Co. Longford
Architect: J. Rawson Carroll
Ardagh is a small designed estate village, laid out around a small village green. The cottages were all largely designed by the architect James Rawson Carroll (1830–1911).
1865 – McBirney’s Department Store, Aston Quay, Dublin
Architect: J. Rawson Carroll / William M. Mitchell
Designed by J. Rawson Carroll around 1865, with later work at the end of the 19th century by William M.
1868 – Magdalen Asylum Chapel, Leeson St., Dublin
Architect: Rawson Carroll
Later facade and tower added to earlier chapel for the Magdalen Asylum at the foot of Leeson Street.
1875 – Classiebawn, Mullaghmore, Co. Sligo
Architect: J. Rawson Carroll
Designed in the Baronial style by J. Rawson Carroll, a Dublin-based, but Scottish, architect, and is constructed of local stone with Mountcharles stone dressings brought by sea from County Donegal.
1878 – Court House, Sligo, Co. Sligo
Architect: Rawson Carroll
Most large Irish towns have a fine classical courthouse (Carlow, Monaghan, Dundalk), but Sligo’s is a fine Gothic Revival ediface.
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