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/aai-files/assets/libraries/cork-city-library/reading-room/big-houses-of-ireland/Extract-Full-from-Ho
/aai-files/assets/libraries/cork-city-library/reading-room/big-houses-of-ireland/Extract-Full-from-Ho
Extract from Household and Farm Account Book Purcell Estate 1834-1835
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/aai-files/assets/libraries/cork-city-library/reading-room/big-houses-of-ireland/detail-estate-map.jp
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Detail from an estate map of the lands of Clounbaun in the parish of Doneraile,county Cork, the estate of Nicholas Green Evans, containing 24 acres. (Ryan-Purcell Estate Papers)
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Sir Robert Shaw M.P.
Sir Robert Shaw M.P.
Image of Robert Shaw in the Hibernian Magazine October 1806
© National Library of Ireland
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Wild Goose Lodge
Wild Goose Lodge
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Lough Rynn House
Lough Rynn House
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Example original page from Griffith's Valuation
Example original page from Griffith's Valuation
A section taken from an original page of Griffith's Valuation
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Heywood House
Heywood House
Heywood House, located in Ballinakill, is an ideal example of a big house in county Laois.
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Birr, Co. Offaly
Birr, Co. Offaly
The courthouse in Birr, Co. Offaly is a formal building designed to express the authority of government.
Image courtesy of Dr. Michael O'Neill
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John and Charles Wesley
John and Charles Wesley
Plaque depicting John and Charles Wesley, founders of the Methodist Movement
© Dublin City Public Libraries
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Professor Alistair Rowan, Author of the Architecture Feature
Professor Alistair Rowan, Author of the Architecture Feature
Alistair Rowan was born in Belfast in 1938. He studied architecture at Edinburgh College of Art, took a Ph.D in architectural history in the University of Cambridge and undertook post-doctoral research, on late Baroque architecture in the Veneto, at the University of Padua, Italy, in 1965 and 1966. He later worked as a journalist in London with Country Life magazine and was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Fine Art in the University of Edinburgh in 1967. In 1977 he became the first professor in the History of Art in University College Dublin, a post that he held until 1990 when he became Principal of Edinburgh College of Art. He is a founder member of the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, was Chairman of the Irish Architectural Archive from 1982 to 1986, and was elected Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford for 1987/88. In 1987 he made a series of programmes with RTE on the history of Irish church buildings – ‘God’s Houses’. He has served on the Historic Buildings Council for Scotland from 1986 to 1994 and has been President of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain and of the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland. In December 2000 he retired from Edinburgh College of Art and accepted an invitation from University College Cork to become its Professor of the History of Art and to set up an undergraduate courses in the College. He retired from UCC in September 2003. He is an authority of the architecture of Robert Adam and is an author and editor of the Yale University Press Buildings of Ireland series.