Ashe Memorial Hall, office in County Kerry

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What is recorded here

A clerk at Ashe Memorial Hall in Tralee could have spent all morning looking for a paper that a colleague was calmly using as a bookmark. Everyone would be delighted it turned up, except the clerk who had already searched every sensible place twice.

Detached thirteen-bay three-storey former Local Authority offices, built c. 1925, with five-bay three-storey over basement breakfront entrance facing Denny Street. Now in use as museum and offices. Hipped natural slate roof with snecked sandstone ashlar chimneystack and galvanised rainwater goods. Snecked sandstone ashlar walls with painted stone plinth, string course between ground floor and first floor, projecting cornice to second floor and third floor, channelled sandstone walls to basement to front (north) elevation, and having pilasters and entablature to central five-bay breakfront. Metal side-hung pivot windows with moulded painted stone sills and surrounds. Timber matchboard glazed double leaf doors with moulded stucco surround to main entrance. Concrete steps with railing and stucco candelabras to piers to main entrance. Cast-metal railings to site. Building commenced 1924 and completed 1928. Building is designed to be seen in the round and closes vista at end of Denny Street.

The story behind this place

Snecked sandstone ashlar walls with painted stone plinth, string course between ground floor and first floor, projecting cornice to second floor and third floor, channelled sandstone walls to basement to front (north) elevation, and having pilasters and entablature to central five-bay breakfront.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21006373

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