Irish architecture

The Folly at Mow Cop, 1754 (Source: _DaveAdams)

Hey all I am in the University of Limerick, in my Final Year of a 4yr course. For my Final Year Project I am going to investigate Irish Thatch Cottages or sometimes called Vernacular Cottages / Vernacular Architecture. I am planning on both writing a written report on the impact of these houses on Rural

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To mark St Paddy's day, I profiled this historic hunting lodge in the south of Ireland, once owned by Irish nobility. Have a look....

Architect: Alfred Waterhouse ' Alfred Waterhouse's major existing work and masterpiece in Manchester is the town hall (1868) with a design in Venetian Gothic. The building is executed with solid and splendid interior detail. Completed in 1887, this most impressive neo-Gothic building cost a million pounds and is acknowledged as a masterpiece in its own

Patrick Parsons, Lord Oxmantown, who recently moved back to the castle after 20 years in China, strolls in the garden with his wife, Anna (wearing an evening dress of her own design), and their children, William and Olivia | archdigest.com

Architect: Fred Chancellor From The Building News, October 23 1874: "We give this week plans and sketch of a pair of cottages, several of which have been built upon the estates of G. Alan Lowndes, Esq., in the county of Essex. The feature of the plan of each cottage is a good-sized dining-room, with a

Walk among 800 years of Irish History. Explore the rich details of the home of the Marquis of Waterford at Curraghmore House & Gardens.

Architect: Fred Chancellor Published in The Building News, August 22 1873: "One of our illustrations this week is a Lodge recently erected for J. Jolliffe Tufnell, Esq., at Langley's-park, near Chelmsford. It is built of red brick and oak framework, filled in with ornamental plastering. The architect is Mr. Fred, Chancellor. "