If you have an appreciation for beautiful architecture, and amazing craftsmanship, the museum building in Trinity College Dublin is well worth a visit. It was designed by Sir Thomas Newenham Deane, and the sculpting on the building was carried out by James and John O’Shea from Cork. It is said they didn’t repeat one floral pattern anywhere in the building, and I haven’t seen one yet.
The building was constructed over 5 years between 1852 to 1857 for a cost of about £29,000.
A colour pallette of marbles and stone available in Ireland is provided in the building, with some stone also brought from Cornwall, and France.
- Black Serpentinite from The Lizard, Cornwall
- Green Connemara Marble from Barnaoran, Galway
- Red Cork Marble, from Baneshane, and Little Island, Cork
- White Caen Stone from France
- Wicklow Granite, Ballyknockan, Wiclow which is Clear quartz, white feldspar, and black and silver mica.
- Brown Limestone, Colony Marble from Colony, Co. Offaly
- Black limestone,Kilkenny Marble from south of Kilkenny
A much better review by Genevieve Kilbride about the building can be found here.
