Ashlawn

Detached three-bay two-storey house on L-shaped plan, built c.1820. Hipped natural slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and two central rendered chimneystacks with clay chimney pots. Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed openings having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor openings and three-over six-pane timber sliding sash window over to first floor. Cut stone sills throughout. Central round-headed doorcase with cut stone block and start surround, and a timber panelled door having plain fanlight over. Set back from road in own grounds with extensive complex of single and two-storey outbuildings to rear (north).

An attractive small-scale late-Georgian house of balanced proportions, which retains its early form and character. well-maintained this house presents an early aspect with substantial quantities of the original fabric surviving to the exterior facade. Buildings of this type were once very common in the rural Irish countryside but few survive today in such good condition as this pleasant example. The extensive complex of outbuildings to the rear adds to this composition and completes the setting.