Legacy To Ireland
Richard Cassels died in 1751. His legacy is that he gave Ireland a distinctive type of palladianism all of its own, which to be fully appreciated one has to regard the buildings simultaneously externally and internally, the restrained, even severe, but nevertheless grand external facades, which do not jar the eye in the Irish landscape, give no hint of the flamboyance, even wild rococo exuberance within. This is found almost nowhere else in Europe, the cold grandeur of England's finest palladian mansions such as Kedleston Hall or Holkham Hall could not be further removed from the joy and movement of the interiors of one of Richard Cassels's Irish Palladian interiors.
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