After the Battle of the Boyne of 1690, a new Irish social world began to take shape and the great classical houses of the eighteenth century speak of a more settled time. The Anglo-Irish elite were confirmed in their estates, and a century of relative stability ensued. The great century of Irish Georgian architecture and craftsmanship had begun. Renaissance ideas of symmetry and classical details were arriving in a country where the ancient romans never reached, and gradually over time they soft