1778 – Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh
The Royal Schools were ‘free schools’ created by James I in 1608 to provide an education to the sons of local merchants and farmers during the plantation of Ulster.
The Royal Schools were ‘free schools’ created by James I in 1608 to provide an education to the sons of local merchants and farmers during the plantation of Ulster.
The cathedral incorporates parts of the 13th-century church of the Benedictine Abbey of Down.
Kirwan House or The Female Orphan House was a female orphanage on Dublin’s North Circular Road,
Originally built around 1785, the courthouse was largely rebuilt in 1820-21 by William Farrell. The prominent and rather heavy Doric porch was added at this time.
Presumed to be the work of William Farrell as it is almost identical to his courthouse in Carrick-on-shannon,
The original church was erected at expense of Jane, Dowager Countess of Rosse – believed to be around £2,000.
Designed to accommodate 1650 people, consecrated 25 July 1833, and closed June 1993. After lying redundant for several years,
Next to the Courthouse is St Patrick’s Church of Ireland – a fine building with a needle spire,
Described in the late 1830s: “The new palace is built in the Grecian Doric style and covered with Roman cement.
Cecil Manor was described as ‘rather forbidding and architecturally uninteresting’ with wide set windows in large solid expanses of wall underneath an overhanging roof with a bracket cornice.