Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Castletown house was a milestone in Irish architecture, designed originally by the Italian Alessandro Galilei, circa 1717, in the manner of an Italian town palazzo, for Ireland's most influential man, the politician Speaker William Conolly, it set a new standard and fashion in Irish architecture. The original architect had returned to Italy ...
The house was built in 1740 to a design by Richard Cassels and was said to be his first stone-fronted free-standing house in Dublin. Later, the house was altered by Jacob Owen in 1835 adding a prostyle tetrastyle granite portico and removing the central front venetian window on the first floor while leaving much of the house unchanged.
Russborough House in an illustration by John Preston Neale of 1826. Russborough House is a Georgian Palladian house between Blessington and Ballymore Eustace near the Blessington Lakes in County Wicklow, Ireland. The house was designed by Richard Castle for Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown and built between 1741 and 1755.
Irish Palladianism.Russborough House, Ireland.One of the many country houses designed in Ireland by Richard Cassels. Richard Cassels (1690 – 1751), also known as Richard Castle, was an architect who ranks with Edward Lovett Pearce as one of the greatest architects working in Ireland in the 18th century.
Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland, is a Palladian country house built in 1722 for William Conolly, the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. [2] It formed the centrepiece of an 800-acre (320 ha) estate.
Charlemont House is a mansion in Dublin, Ireland. The house was built in 1763 and designed by William Chambers for James Caulfeild, the 1st Earl of Charlemont. It is a brick-fronted mansion on Dublin's Parnell Square. [8] According to the Hugh Lane Gallery, "in 1929 the gardens of the house were built upon to accommodate the Gallery".
Boyle leased it to his protege Sir Lawrence Parsons, the judge of the Irish Admiralty Court. Though remodelled twice it remains one of the best-known examples of a Tudor house in Ireland. [3] The house was acquired by the Hayman family in the 18th century. [4] [5] In the 20th century, it was the home of Sir Henry Arthur Blake and Lady Blake.
A clochán (plural clocháin) or beehive hut is a dry-stone hut with a corbelled roof, commonly associated with the south-western Irish seaboard. The precise construction date of most of these structures is unknown with the buildings belonging to a long-established Celtic tradition, though there is at present no direct evidence to date the ...