Burke's Guide to Country Houses, Vol. 1: Ireland

150 years after the foundation of Burke's Genealogical Series, the Architectural Series offers a major new addition which covers the Country Houses of the British Isles, the standing and the demolished, the important and the "illustrious obscure." This first volume of the Architectural Series covers Ireland: nearly 2000 Irish Country Houses are dealt with in fascinating detail. The book is an alphabetical dictionary of houses, with individual entries comprising an architectural description and commentary, a brief history of the property and its devolution, any anecdotes and notes of interest concerning the interior, gardens, park, etc. All properties of significance find a place in this volume among the 1300 illustrations accompanying the text.