Ard na Gréine

One of a pair of detached three-bay two-storey houses, built c.1880, with projecting porch, canted bay windows and extensions to rear. Set within its own grounds. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks. Lean-to and flat roofs to rear extensions. Flat roof to front porch. Smooth rendered walls with brick dentil course to eaves and brick quoins. Roughcast render to rear elevation. Camber-arched window openings with timber sash windows having margin lights, red brick surround and stone sills. Canted bay windows to ground floor with stone sills and timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear with timber sash and replacement windows. Projecting porch entrance with timber pilasters, flanking windows with marginlights and replacement uPVC door. Stone threshold to door. Outbuilding to rear with pitched slate roof, roughcast rendered walls and a variety of openings.

This handsome building with its projecting bay windows and porch adds a great deal of architectural character to the Crinkill area. With red brick surrounds to its window openings and attractive sashes, the house boast fine, decorative features. Being both well proportioned and maintained, this domestic structure is a good example of Offaly's later nineteenth-century domestic building stock.