Do u no anything bout mainguard clonmel co tipperary ireland?

Question

Do u no anything bout mainguard clonmel co tipperary ireland?

Answer 1

The Mainguard

(CourtHouse & Exhibition)

Sarsfield Street,

Clonmel,

County Tipperary. €1.25 group rate admission

  

"The historic Main Guard building in Clonmel was reopened in 2004, after almost 10 years of painstaking restoration. The 328-year-old building, with its imposing clock tower, was in a very poor state of repair before it was closed in 1987. Built by the first Duke of Ormond, James Butler, in 1675, the Main Guard at one stage served as a courthouse."

"During the plantation of Ireland by English settlers, Clonmel was purchased first by the Earl of Desmond in 1338, and later taken by the Earls of Ormond; Clonmel remained loyal to the English crown until the mid-17th century. The Mainguard in Sarsfield Street was built in 1674 as the seat of the counts of the palatinate of Ormond and was reputedly designed by Christopher Wren."

"It is a two-storey five-bay structure with a pediment containing a clock. The building is surmounted by an octagonal cupola. The front half of the lower storey is an open arcade of five arches carried on round pillars. Although it was built primarily as a court-house the design of the building is so similar to the later Tholsel at Kilkenny and many of the 18th and 19th century market houses that at some time in its history it carried out all of the functions of these buildings. It is probably the oldest arcaded public building in Ireland."

Answer 2

Don't mind Alpha, I'm Irish solisten to me.

Mainguard Clonmel is a place located in County Tipperary...

And thats about all I know.

Good Luck anyway!