McAuliffe lived and worked in Listowel as a builder and plasterer. His wonderfully detailed shop and house facades are an eclectic mixture of classical, art nouveau, Celtic and Byzantine influences. They are important examples of the late 19th century pan-European quest for a national style. Traces of his work can also be found on other buildings in Listowel and the surrounding region.
Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1870, with round-headed door opening to left ground floor. Built as a pair with the adjoining house to the right. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Painted ruled-and-lined rendered walls with render cornice, sill courses and quoins at first floor only. Painted stone sills, rendered architraves and vermiculated…
Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1870, with round-headed door opening to centre ground floor and having segmental-headed integral carriage arch to right ground floor. Built as a pair with the adjoining house to the left. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Painted ruled-and-lined rendered walls with render cornice, sill courses and quoins at…
Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c. 1870, as a pair. Now also in use as public house. Renovated, 1912, with Celtic Revival style timber pilaster pubfront by Pat McAuliffe inserted to ground floor and render façade enrichments added to upper floors. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron gutter. Painted rendered walls having…
Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1840. Renovated, c. 1920, with render pilaster shopfront inserted to ground floor and render façade enrichments to upper floor. Attributed to Pat McAuliffe. Pitched artificial slate roof with render chimneystacks, cast-iron profiled gutter and replacement downpipe. Painted ruled-and-lined rendered walls with vermiculated render quoins at first floor. Render pilasters…
Terraced two-bay two-storey house, built c. 1860, now also in use as retail outlet. Built as part of a terrace of ten. Renovated with dormer attic inserted and with render shopfront, attributed to Pat McAuliffe, inserted to ground floor 1883. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron gutter. Snecked hammered limestone…
Terraced four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1860, with three-centre-arched integral carriage arch to right ground floor. Now also in use as public house. Render pilaster pubfront inserted to ground floor c.1880 attributed to Pat MacAuliffe, having fluted pilasters, decorative Corinthian capitals, decorative consoles and modillioned moulded cornice. Pitched artificial slate roof with brick and rendered…
Terraced single-bay three-storey house with dormer attic, built c. 1840, now also in use as public house. Renovated, c.1895, with render pilaster pubfront, attributed to Pat McAuliffe, inserted to ground floor having panelled pilasters, paired consoles and moulded cornice. Extensively renovated in late twentieth century with single-storey recessed canted oriel windows inserted to upper floors…
Terraced two-bay single-storey house with dormer attic, built c. 1900. Renovated, c. 1915, with render façade enrichments, attributed to Pat McAuliffe. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, brick chimneystack, cast-iron gutter and downpipe, and gabled half dormers with timber openwork cresting and finials. Painted rendered walls with render vermiculated quoins. Painted stone sills with…
Terraced single-bay three-storey house, built c. 1840, now also in use as public house. Renovated, c. 1920, with timber pilaster pubfront, attributed to Michael Reidy from Killarney, inserted to ground floor having projecting consoles on paired colonnettes, dentilated moulded cornice, mosaic tiled fascia, Celtic Revival style motifs to glazing. Render façade enrichments attributed to Pat…
Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c. 1840, as part of a terrace of four. Single-bay two-storey lean-to lower return to rear to north-west. Renovated by Pat McAuliffe, c. 1915, with render pilaster shopfront inserted to ground floor having fretwork Celtic motifs to pilasters surmounted by urns, decorative consoles, moulded cornice and decorative iron cresting. Render…
Terraced two-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880, now in use as offices. Renovation attributed to Pat McAuliffe, c. 1910, with render shopfront inserted to ground floor having decorative consoles, moulded cornice and urns. Render façade enrichments added including pilaster strips having Celtic Revival style strapwork and decorative consoles to eaves. Pitched artificial slate roof with…
Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880, as a pair with the adjoining house. Renovation attributed to Pat McAuliffe, c. 1920, with render pilaster pubfront inserted to ground floor having panelled pilasters and corbelled moulded cornice. Render façade enrichments also added. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles and rendered brick chimneystacks. Rendered walls with…
Terraced single-bay three-storey house, built c. 1815, now vacant. Renovated by Pat McAuliffe, c. 1906, with render shopfront inserted to ground floor having scroll motif and decorative strapwork. Render façade enrichments also added. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, parapet to façade and cast-iron hopper and downpipe. Painted rendered walls with moulded architraves to…