Ahabeg House, County Limerick

What is recorded here

Ahabeg House in Ahabeg puts columns and a splendid spoked fanlight around its front door. You might only be calling to borrow a shovel, but that entrance would have you rehearsing ‘Your Excellency’ and wiping a second time.

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1790. Hipped slate roof having brick chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings to first floor with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed opening to first floor, centre-bay having tripartite two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window, flanking one-over-one pane windows and limestone sill. Square-headed openings to ground floor with four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Segmental-headed opening having spoked fanlight over timber panelled door with flanking Doric style pilasters an sidelights. Pair of rubble square-profile limestone piers having metal gate and rubble limestone boundary walls.

A well composed house incorporates classical proportions on a symmetrical plan. The composition is distinguished by the ornate door opening, which retains its spoked fanlight and Doric style engaged columns. Well maintained, the house retains most of its original form and massing, together with important salient features and materials to the exterior.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21901411

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