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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 ...
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. The estate was sold in 1965, and later sub-divided.
The following buildings in Ireland that are currently in use are landmarks of historical, cultural or governmental significance. For ruins, see National monuments of Ireland. Albert College Building, Dublin, 1851; Aldborough House and The Lord Amiens Theatre, Dublin, 1795; American Embassy, Dublin; Áras an Uachtaráin, Dublin; Ardbraccan House ...
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.
This is a list of historic houses in the Republic of Ireland which serves as a link page for any stately home or historic house in Ireland. County Carlow
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.
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 ...
The Custom House is a Georgian-Palladian former custom house building in Limerick, Ireland. The building was constructed in local Irish limestone between 1765 and 1769 to a design by architect Davis Ducart and is situated on Rutland Street on the banks of the River Shannon at its confluence with the Abbey River .