Swiss Cottage & Other Conservation Award Recipients feature in Frank McDonald article in the Irish Times
Swiss Cottage & Other Conservation Award recipients feature in Frank McDonald article in the Irish Times;
What do 1830s almshouses in Co Waterford, an “off-the-peg” Swiss cottage in Co Leitrim, a Tudor-era tower in Co Kilkenny and a mid 18th-century house in Dublin have in common? Not much on the face of it, but they all feature prominently in the 2019 Irish Georgian Society Conservation Awards.
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More impressive was the timber-framed Swiss cottage, near Mohill, Co Leitrim, which had lain derelict for many years until its careful restoration by Bray-based architect Adrian Buckley and local contractor Vincent Beirne. They pieced this “catalogue house” back together again, including its jigsaw puzzles of lime-mortared bricks. Once part of the Lough Rynn Castle estate, the cottage stands on about two acres of ground shaded by mature trees and is probably the only example of its type in Ireland. With its cosy interiors, enhanced by an eclectic collection of art on the walls, we had no hesitation in giving it the first-ever Mary Bryan Prize for Conservation.
