Lecture: Borris House, County Carlow; an architectural palimpsest 400 years of MacMurrough Kavanagh occupation
By Edmund Joyce Borris House has been in constant occupation since the MacMurrough Kavanaghs moved their principal seat from Poulmounty (near St Mullins) to Borris in the mid sixteenth century. For the most part, Borris is presented as an early 19th century neo-gothic pile and is considered one of Sir Richard Morrison’s most successful re-workings […]