Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILKENNY, GOWRAN, ALMSHOUSES

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. KILKENNY, GOWRAN, ALMSHOUSES
Date: 1733-1735
Nature: Almshouse for 4 widows. Square building ornamented with black marble 'near gates of Lord Clifden's demesne'. Inscribed slab records that it was built by James Agar, 1733-1735.
Refs: William Tighe, Statistical Observations relative to the County of Kilkenny (1802), 535