Ballyvorneen House, country house in County Limerick

What is recorded here

Ballyvorneen House stands on an old castle site, with narrow loop openings still giving the outbuilding a suspicious squint. That is an awkward face for a shed to wear: ‘Have you come for the rake, or to press a claim to the throne?’

Detached two-storey house, built c. 1700, on site of c. 1100 castle. Pitched slate roof with chimneystack on west gable. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to site with pitched slate roof, rendered walls, loop openings, square-headed openings and segmental-arched openings.

The size of the structure suggests a high level of workmanship involved in its construction.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21902318

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