Blackrock Castle
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Blackrock Castle is a castellated fortification located at Blackrock, about 2 km from Cork city centre on the banks of the River Lee in Ireland. Originally developed as a coastal defence fortification
Blackrock Castle
Blackrock Castle in the late 19th century
Blackrock Castle Cork looking North
Cork Harbour
James Pain
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James Pain was an English architect. Born into a family of English architects, his grandfather was William Pain, his father James Pain and his brother George Richard Pain.
Blackrock Castle
…storeys to the original tower and rebuilt the out-buildings. The new building cost the City of Cork £1,000. The architects were George Richard Pain and James Pain, who were responsible for other public buildings around Cork at the time. The neo-gothic complex of buildings around a courtyard is essentially what…
St. Saviour's Dominican Church in Limerick, designed and built in 1815 by the Pain brothers.