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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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Tullamore -
Built Heritage 1700 - Today
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.
Image courtesy of Dr. Michael O'Neill
Built Heritage 1700 - Today -
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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Tuam -
Desart Court, Rear View
Rear view of Desart Court former home of the Cuffe Family, County Kilkenny
Kilkenny County Library
Desart Court, Rear View -
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.
Image courtesy of Kevin Mulligan
Image is present on following page(s): The Demesne Landscape, The Demesne Landscape
Mountstewart, Co. Down -
John's Bridge
John's Bridge, Kilkenny
Property of Dr. Brendan Grimes
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John's Bridge -
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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Pro Cathedral -
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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Stackallen, Co. Meath -
Clones, Co. Monaghan
The development of towns in the nineteenth century was dependent on regular markets and fairs, like at Clones in County Monaghan
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Clones, Co. Monaghan -
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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Mullagh -
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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Birr, Co. Offaly -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie, Philanthropist
Wilipedia image
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Andrew Carnegie -
Metal Guttering on the Kilkenny Carnegie Library
Metal Guttering on the Kilkenny Carnegie Library
Property of Dr. Brendan Grimes
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Metal Guttering on the Kilkenny Carnegie Library -
Ellen, Countess of Desart
Ellen, 4th Countess of Desart
Kilkenny County Library
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Ellen, Countess of Desart -
Amiens Street
Amiens Street station is a large Italianate building designed by the great Irish railway engineer Sir John MacNeill and William Deane Butler.
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Amiens Street -
Athleague
The gaunt five-storey mill in Athleague is a formidable industrial building powered by the River Suck.
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Athleague -
Carnegie Library Entrance
Main entrance to the Kilkenny Carnegie Library
Property of Dr. Brendan Grimes
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Carnegie Library Entrance -
Main entrance of the Kilkenny Carnegie Library
Main entrance of the Kilkenny Carnegie Library as it is today
Property of Dr. Brendan Grimes
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Main entrance of the Kilkenny Carnegie Library -
Desart Court, Front View
Front view of Desart Court former home of the Cuffe Family, County Kilkenny
Kilkenny County Library
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Desart Court, Front View -
Birr town
The town is characterized by attractive houses and formal open spaces built under the guiding hand of the Parsons family.
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Birr town -
Clones bank
This Bank of Ireland in Clones was designed in 1892 by Millar & Symes as a conscious effort to blend with the Market House which it adjoins thereby investing it with some of the same authority.
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Clones bank -
Broadstone station
Broadstone Station is a distinctive building designed by John Skipton Mulvaney in 1842 as the terminus for the Midland & Great Western Railway.
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Broadstone station -
Aghacashel
The small projection from the rear wall of this cottage in Aghacashel provides additional space for a bed. Known as a 'bed outshot' it is a regional characteristic of houses in the north-west.
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Aghacashel -
Aerial View of The Street, Scattery Island
An aerial view of The Street, the main settlement on Scattery Island.
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Aerial View of The Street, Scattery Island -
Carrickmacross workhouse
This workhouse in Carrickmacross is one of the best preserved examples of the standard plan for workhouses devised in the 1840s by George Wilkinson and built throughout Ireland.
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Carrickmacross workhouse -
Castlerickard
The three-sided pyramid of the Swifte mausoleum at Castlerickard.
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Castlerickard -
Edenderry
This large classical building in Edenderry, Co. Offaly was designed by Thomas Duff for the Marquess of Downshire.
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Edenderry -
Derryvalley
Derryvalley Presbyterian church is a deeply attractive late eighteenth century hall church with distinctive half-hipped gables and round-headed Gothic windows.
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Derryvalley -
Clones market house
This massive market house in Clones was designed by William Deane Butler in 1844 as part of efforts to improve the economy of the town.
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Clones market house -
Glengrant
This small farmyard forms a neat and well sheltered complex.
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Glengrant -
Ennis
The architectural character of most Irish towns derives from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, often evolving from older buildings. McParland's in Ennis has all the appearance of an eighteenth century premises but for the diagonal stone chimney stacks which reveal it as a late mediaeval building.
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Ennis -
Corlea
Country churches, like this example near Kingscourt are amongst the most simple and evocative buildings of the Irish countryside.
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Corlea