Building misc in Kilcummin, County Mayo

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Freestanding single-bay single-storey flat-roofed lookout post ["LOP"], between 1939-42, on an elongated half-octagonal plan. Now disused. Flat reinforced concrete roof with mass concrete central chimney stack. Rendered or fine roughcast mass- or reinforced concrete block walls. Square-headed window openings with no…

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A lookout post [""LOP 65""] erected during ""The Emergency"" (1939-46) to a standardised design signed by William Henry Howard Cooke (1881-1977) of the Office of Public Works (established 1831) representing an important component of the mid twentieth-century built heritage of north County Mayo (cf. 31300101; 31300301; 31300706; 31305303; 31307501; 31308503).

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31300801

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