Ballroom in Ballysimon, County Limerick

What is recorded here

Ballroom in Ballysimon was locally called The Fog, a tremendous name for a place where you might meet your future husband and spend forty years explaining that visibility was poor.

Detached six-bay single-storey corrugated-iron outbuilding, built c. 1940. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with corrugated plastic roof lights. Painted corrugated iron walls. Square-headed window openings with timber framed casement windows. Square-headed door opening with corrugated-iron door. Square-headed later garage door opening with red brick surround and rolling garage door.

This corrugated-iron shed is an excellent example of the vernacular tradition in the area. The building, which is locally known as The Fog, was used as a dance hall and may have been a purpose-built corrugated iron dance hall. The irregular fenestration and simple unadorned lines of the building contribute to its unique historic character.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21901327

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