Old Conna Hill, Shankill, Co Dublin 

Bence-Jones, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London. 

p. 228. “(Riall/LGI1958) A High Victorian Tudor-Gothic house by Sir Charles Lanyon and William Henry Lynn, built ca 1860 for Phineas Riall. The house, which has steeply pointed gables and rectangular mullioned windows with trefoil-headed lights, is more Gothic than Tudor, with decidedly ecclesiastical air; in fact the grouping of elements, the rather squashed church porch, the fleche, the odd little buttresses, is rather reminiscent of Lanon’s and Lynn’s Unitarian church on Stephen’s Green in Dublin. The interior of the house is sombrely rich: panelling, carved woodwork, elaborately moulded ceilings and stained glass.”