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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
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 ...
Also known as "Castle House" or "Lisgar House," Bailieborough Castle, was by 1629 an enclosed demesne that was attacked by Irish rebel forces under Colonel Hugh O'Reilly in 1641. [22] Around 1895 in Ireland , the estate was sold under the Ashbourne Act to a Sir Stanley Herbert Cochrane Bt., only to be destroyed by fire in 1918 .
Lyons Demesne, also Lyons Estate, is a country house and estate in Lyons Hill, County Kildare, Ireland. It is located near Newcastle Demesne and Celbridge, to the northeast of Tipperstown, 24.8 kilometres (15.4 mi) west of the city centre of Dublin. The Georgian house, completed in 1797 under architect Oliver Grace, is set in 600 acres (240 ha).
Restored blackhouse in a museum on Trotternish, Skye. The origin of the name blackhouse is of some debate. On the Isle of Lewis, in particular, it seems to have been used to distinguish the older blackhouses from some of the newer white-houses (Irish: teach bán [ˌtʲax ˈbˠaːnˠ], teach geal [ˌtʲax ˈɟalˠ]; Scottish Gaelic: taigh-geal [t̪ʰə ˈkʲal̪ˠ]), with their harled (rendered ...
The dispersion of artefacts, through the sale of Irish country house contents, occurred over a period of more than 150 years starting with the financial after effects of the Irish famine and the creation of the Encumbered Estates' Court in 1849.
An earlier market house collapsed 2 March 1719 when the courtroom above was overcrowded with 200 prisoners when the court was in session. The replacement building was built by John Ensor, architect 1762. [231] Subsequently served as RC church. The Bank of Ireland branch. [232] [233] Roscrea: Tipperary: 1886 replacing earlier larger Market House ...
Abbeville, formerly Abbeyville House, is an 18th century Georgian house in the townland of Abbeyville, civil parish of Kinsealy, within the traditional County Dublin, Ireland. [ 1 ] It is known for being designed by James Gandon as well as being the home of Charles Haughey during his years as Taoiseach . [ 2 ]