PRINCIPAL PARK ENTRANCE

TO LISSADELL COURT.

DESIGN No. 14.

PERSPECTIVE VIEW, — PLATE XXXI.

The beautiful and romantic demesne of Lissadell Court in Ireland , isthe property 0 f gj r Robert Gore Booth, Bart, who has lately erectedupon it the mansion which forms the subject of the following design,and this Gate-Lodge which is the principal approach to the house. Thedemesne itself is bounded by the Bay of Sligo , the Atlantic and theBay of Donegal in one direction, and by the mountains called BenBulben, Ben Whisky, and Nocnara, in the other. The countryaround presents such a striking combination of mountain scenery andwater, that it is hardly possible for language to convey an adequateidea of the varied charms of this highly picturesque tract of landscape.The tower hereafter to be attached to this entrance into the park, besidesforming as it will a pleasing architectural object as beheld from thecountry around, and also both from the Bay of Sligo and the Atlantic ,will command an extensive prospect from its upper part, while itwill prove of direct utility, by affording the means of telegraphic com-munication with the adjoining estates.

In regard to its architecture, this tower is necessarily composed in amixed style, bearing a nearer affinity to the Italian than to the Grecian,—and to the Italian of the middle ages (when structures of this class wereconspicuous features in most of the cities of Lombardy ) than to that ofmore recent times. Notwithstanding that it offers a striking, contrastto the lodge, yet in consequence of its being as much detachedTrom, asunited with, the latter by the gate, and ornamental railing extendingbetween the two buildings, the dissimilarity of their style is by nomeans attended with a disagreeable effect. The Lodge itself so nearly