1840 – Place de la Bastille, Paris
Architect: Jean Antoine Alavoine Previously the site of the Bastille, the fortress built by Charles V between 1370-82. This was removed around 1789,
View Article1840 – Pembroke Row, Abbeyleix, Co. Laois
When the 3rd Viscount de Vesci married Lady Emma Hubert, daughter of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery. The Earl built this stone terrace of houses for the town as part of his daughter’s dowry.
View Article1840 – Northland House, Dungannon, Co. Tyrone
Northland House was a three-storey, irregular classical mansion, dating in its final form from around 1840. Also known at times as Northland Park and Dungannon Park.
View Article1840 – Mount Stewart House, Co. Down
Architect: George Dance / William Vitruvius Morrison Between 1804 and 1806, the London architect George Dance was employed by Alexander Stewart,
View Article1840 – Magheramenagh Castle, Belleek, Co. Fermanagh
Architect: John B. Keane Constructed between 1835 and 1840, with the design exhibited at the RHA in 1840. In the Tudor-Gothic style,
View Article1840 – Lock Keeper’s Cottage, Templetate Lock, Smithborough, Co. Monaghan
Fine stone cottage overlooking a former lock on the now closed Ulster Canal. The canal which linked Lough Erne to Lough Neagh was never a financial success and was only open for a few years before the...
View Article1840 – Islandbridge Gate Lodge, Phoenix Park, Dublin
Architect: Jacob Owen Another fine gatelodge to the park, complete with ornate metal revolving pedestrian gate by J. &
View Article1840 – Gywn’s Institution, Brooke Park, Derry
Architect: Samuel Jackman John Gwyn was a local businessman, who was born near Muff in County Donegal in 1754.
View Article1840 – Corpus Christi Church, Athlone, Co. Westmeath
Architect: Joseph Welland An early-Victorian Gothic Revival church with an unusual combination of small belfry and large porch. It retains its original form and much of its original fabric and fittings.
View Article1840 – Church of Ireland Cathedral, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh
Architect: William Farrell When designing the Cathedral, William Farrell kept the tower of the earlier Plantation church, but built the new church off-axis,
View Article1840 – Castleboro, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford
Architect: Daniel Robertson Castleboro was a very large, imposing classical mansion built about 1840 for the 1st Baron Carew.
View Article1840 – Castle Saunderson, Belturbet, Co. Cavan
Castle Saunderson is a large castellated mansion in a Tudor-Revival style. The majority of the structure dates from 1840, architect unknown,
View Article1840 – Bank of Ireland, 32 South Mall, Cork
Architect: Thomas Deane New bank by ‘Mssrs. Deane’, Thomas Deane & Co., comprising Thomas and his brother Kearns, on site formerly occupied by Harbour Commissioners’
View Article1840 – Caledon Monument, Caledon, Co. Tyrone
Architect: William Murray Built in the 1840s in memory of the 2nd Earl Caledon, in form of Greek Doric column the column was topped by a statue by Cork-born sculptor Thomas Kirk.
View Article1840 – Cecil Manor, Augher, Co. Tyrone
Architect: William Farrell Cecil Manor was described as ‘rather forbidding and architecturally uninteresting’ with wide set windows in large solid expanses of wall underneath an overhanging roof with a...
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