Shelton Abbey, County Wicklow, Ireland. Gothic-Revival-style house in the style of a 14th-century abbey designed by the Irish architect Sir Richard Morrison in 1819 for the owner William Howard, 4th Earl of Wicklow. Now a prison. Colour woodblock by Benjamin Fawcett in the Baxter process of an illustration by Alexander Francis Lydon from Reverend Francis Orpen Morris’s Picturesque Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, William Mackenzie, London, 1880.

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