9 - Enniscorthy, County Wexford

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Enniscorthy, County Wexford

Postcard print

A pictorial postcard print of the town of Enniscorthy in County Wexford in about 1945. Some of the prominent buildings in the image include Enniscorthy Castle (centre), a late sixteenth-century fortified tower house, St. Aidan’s Cathedral (background, centre-left), the largest building in Ireland designed (1843) by Augustus Welby Pugin (1812-1852), the architect responsible for the interior of the Palace of Westminster in London, and St. Mary’s Church of Ireland (left), a Gothic Revival style church built between 1840 and 1850 to the designs of Joseph Welland (1798-1860), architect to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in Ireland.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition