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What is recorded here

Detached square-plan former dovecote, built c.1830, now in use as a farm outbuilding. Replacement pitched corrugated-iron roof. Random coursed stone walls with string course. Segmental-arched entrance to east. Brick-lined walls to interior with regularly-spaced niches for nesting pigeons or doves. Dovecote is located in the fair green.

This dovecote, retaining its original form and fittings, is a reminder of the agricultural practices of the past. Though uncommon in today's Irish diet, pigeon was popularly eaten in former centuries, and as such many demesnes and estates had dovecotes. Though no longer used, this structure is an artefact of eighteenth and nineteenth-century culture.

This does not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.