Cashel Palace: An Architectural and Historical Survey

Anna Morrogh
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2006
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation provides an architectural and historical survey of Cashel Palace in Tipperary, originally built as the Bishop's Palace for the Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly by Irish Palladian architect Sir Edward Lovett Pearce in 1728. The author charts a history of the palace's construction and considers the significance of its location in one of the most important ecclesiastical sites in Ireland in the context of church power and wealth in the18th century. This study also examines the changes in ownership and function that have occurred over the building's three hundred year history and consider these changes in terms of Pearce's original designs, his broader oeuvre, and the works of various contemporaries. In addition, the author provides a study of the Palace's 'Bolton Library' with a view to understanding its original design in the context of contemporary library architecture.

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Cashel Palace: An Architectural and Historical Survey