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Buildings shape our countryside, and feature in landscapes, towns and cities. Architectural historian Kevin Mulligan helps us to find out more about this part of our identity.
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Waterston, Co. Westmeath
This curious monument at Waterston in Co. Westmeath was designed by Richard Castle as a dovecote and placed within a designed landscape to serve as an eye catcher to improve views within the demesne.
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Tullamore
In the first half of the nineteenth century a number of grand courthouses were built in larger country towns. The earliest of these is in Dundalk designed by Edward Parke and John Bowden in 1819, followed by William Morrison's more monumental buildings in Carlow and Tralee of the late 1820s. The example built in Tullamore in 1833 is by J.B. Keane who had worked as an assistant to the Morrisons.
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Tuam
St. Jarlath's Tuam is the first of three large Gothic cathedrals designed on the eve of Catholic Emancipation by Dominick and Peter Madden in the west. Designed in 1827 it was followed by those of Ballin and Ennis.
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Stackallen, Co. Meath
Built for Gustavus Hamilton, in the same period as Beaulieu, Stackallan is one of the earliest surviving Classical houses in Ireland.
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Pro Cathedral
St. Mary's Pro Cathedral was the most ambitious Catholic church erected in Dublin. Erected before Catholic Emancipation was granted it was built in an austere Greek inspired Classicism. The Classical style was often favoured for earliest city churches of the nineteenth century.
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Mullagh
The pleasing simplicity of the traditional Irish shopfront, like here at Mullagh is an important feature of our towns that deserves to be preserved.
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Mountstewart, Co. Down
The Temple of the Winds in Mountstewart is a highly sophistciated garden building, which like the Casino at Marino in Dublin, reflected the cultured tastes of the patron.
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Killevan Church
This large church in Killevan, Co. Kilkenny designed by Joseph Welland in 1857 departs from the conventional hall and tower type of preceding decades.
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