Notable Building sights in Ireland - Sort by: Facing Trinity
College across College Green, this sweeping Palladian pile was
built to house the Irish parliament and was the first purpose-
built Parliament House in the world. The original building, the
central colonnaded section that distinguishes the present-day
structure, was designed by Sir Edward Lovett Pearce in the first
half of the 18th century. When the parliament voted itself out
of existence through the 1801 Act of Union, the building was
sold under the condition that the interior would be altered to
prevent it ever again being used as a debating chamber. It was a
spiteful strike at Irish parliamentary aspirations, but while
the central House of Commons was… Officially known as Carlow
College, the main building opened as one of Ireland's first
seminaries in 1793. Today it specialises in humanities and
social studies and has a student body of 800. The wide grounds,
which also front Visual, have a sort of regal, grassy elegance
and are dotted with modern