Main entry:

Tierney, Andrew, author.

Title & Author:

Central Leinster : the counties of Kildare, Laois and Offaly / by Andrew Tierney.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
©2019

Description:

xx, 697 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm.

Series:

The buildings of Ireland
Pevsner architectural guides

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 58-65) and indexes.
Introduction -- Early settlement -- The early Christian period -- Later medieval architecture -- Plantations and Restoration architecture -- Secular C18 architecture -- Early C19 secular architecture -- C18 and early C19 churches -- Victorian secular architecture -- Victorian and Edwardian churches -- Architecture since 1900 -- A note on building materials -- Gazetteer.

Summary:

"The comprehensive guide to the architecture of the heart of Ireland, closely examining a broad range of works, from castles and churches to grand neoclassical country houses. This comprehensive guide covers the historically rich and nuanced territory of Central Leinster, from the western borderlands of the medieval English Pale to the wild expanse of the Bog of Allen and further west to Clonmacnoise, cradle of early monasticism, with its Hiberno-Romanesque ruins, sculpted crosses, and elegant round towers. The Palladian mansions of Kildare and the romantic castles of Offaly stand within ancient forests, and Neoclassicism flourished with grand houses by James Wyatt at Abbey Leix, by James Gordon at Emo, and by the Morrisons at Ballyfin. Georgian streetscape finds its best expressions in Mountmellick and Maynooth. Disestablishment spurred the re-entrenchment of Irish Protestant architecture, notably in James Franklin Fuller's fusions of Continental and Hiberno-Romanesque styles at Rathdaire, Millicent, and Carnalway, with their rich carving, decoration, and stained glass"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780300232042 hardcover
0300232047 hardcover

Subject:

Architecture Ireland Leinster Guidebooks.
Buildings Ireland Leinster Guidebooks.
Constructions Irlande Leinster Guides.
Architecture Irlande Leinster Guides.
Architecture Ireland Guidebooks.
Buildings Ireland Guidebooks.
Architecture
Buildings
Leinster (Ireland) Buildings, structures, etc. Guidebooks.
Leinster (Irlande) Constructions Guides.
Leinster (Ireland) Buildings, structures, etc.
Ireland Leinster.

Form/genre:

travel guidebooks.
Guidebooks
Guides touristiques.

Added entries:

Buildings of Ireland.
Pevsner architectural guides.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 308348
Call No.: NA990.L445 T54 2019
Status: Available