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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 ...
List of notable Irish buildings includes buildings in Ireland that are currently in-use which 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
Market houses (sometimes earlier called tholsels) are a notable feature of many Irish towns with varying styles of architecture, size and ornamentation.They are usually located at the centre of the town at which at one stage a market was held.
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 ...
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 ...
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Irish architecture by period or style; Subcategories. This category has the following 17 subcategories, out of 17 total. Architecture in Northern ...
The 110-foot (34 m) tower [10] is in the traditional design of an Irish round tower and is partially built with stone from a former army barracks in Tipperary. [ 11 ] At Saint Mary's Cemetery in Milford, Massachusetts a round tower was built of Milford granite in the late 19th century as a memorial to central Massachusetts' Irish immigrants, of ...