Mar 9, 2013 · The ancestral home of the Mcmorrough Kavanaghs, High Kings of Leinster, and originally an important castle guarding the River Barrow, Borris House was rebuilt in 1731. It was later altered by the architectural dynastic family, Richard and William Morrison.

Borris House is an Irish country house near Borris, County Carlow. [1] It is the ancestral home of the McMorrough-Kavanagh family. [2]

Constructed in the Tudor style, Borris House was built in 1731 by Morgan Kavanagh. It is the hereditary home of the MacMorrough Kavanagh family, former Celtic kings of Leinster, and the famous 12th century Kavanagh Charter Horn remains on display in the house today.

The present house, rebuilt in 1731, was significantly remodelled in the early nineteenth century by Sir Richard Morrison (1767-1849) and William Vitruvius Morrison (1794-1838) who introduced Tudor Gothic motifs including curvilinear hood mouldings and battlemented parapets.

Oct 4, 2020 · The Borris website claims that the 1731 house was built for Morgan Kavanagh, but the Irish Aesthete Robert O’Byrne writes that the 1731 house was built by Brian Kavanagh, incorporating part of the fifteenth century castle.

Nov 5, 2021 · Constructed in the Tudor style, Borris House was built in 1731 by Morgan Kavanagh. It is the hereditary home of the MacMorrough Kavanagh family, former Celtic kings of Leinster, and the famous 12th-century Kavanagh Charter Horn remains on display in …

Borris House - Hidden in the wood-ed Barrow Valley stands this magnificent house which was built in 1731 by Morgan Kavanagh, a descendant of the former Kings of Leinster. It is surrounded by the Blackstairs Mountains. Mount Leinster dominates the landscape and the …

Aug 27, 2024 · Set today in over 650 acres of walled private park and woodlands, Borris House retains its place as the centrepiece of the locality. Originally an important castle guarding the River Barrow, the house was rebuilt in 1731 and later altered by …

Apr 18, 2024 · The 50-room house that Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh called home was built in 1731. Borris House is one of the few great Irish houses to be built beside a town. Following serious damage inflicted during two attacks during the 1798 rebellion, the house we see today was restored in the early 1800s.

Aug 9, 2015 · The house was constructed around 1731 and later enclosed in its Gothic envelope to the designs of father and son Richard and William Vitruvius Morrison, and was one of the earliest uses of Tudor Gothic detailing in Ireland in the nineteenth-century.