
What is recorded here
Capragh gave the carriages a handsome stone arch and great double doors, and their quarters have outlasted the grand house. There’s a dinner-table humiliation: spending a fortune on your position in life, only for the cart to get the ancestral home.
Detached two-storey multiple-bay outbuilding to north-east of ruinous house, built c.1820, having single-storey outbuilding attached to north-west gable. Pitched slate roof. Snecked dressed stone walls. Square-headed openings having red brick surrounds and cut-stone sills. Elliptical-arch door opening having cut-stone voussoirs. Elliptical-arch carriage entrance having cut-stone voussoirs, proud keystone, and timber battened double-leaf door. Single-storey outbuilding having pitched corrugated-iron roof, rubble stone walls with quoins and square-headed openings. Cut-stone carriage arch to north-west edge of yard having red brick soffit, slate coping, and cut-stone voussoirs, adjoining rubble stone wall to a former outbuilding having red brick surrounds to openings. Rock-faced rusticated stone gate piers with pyramidal cappings and metal gate to yard. Set back from road and west of Lough Capragh. Entrance gate and ruinous gate lodge to south-west comprising ashlar gate piers with pyramidal cappings and cast-iron gate.
This substantial outbuilding retains its early form and character and acts as a reminder of the substantial house that once stood on the site. The arched openings display skilled stone masonry and are typical of nineteenth-century outbuilding structures associated with country houses. While the surrounding buildings are now ruinous the relationship of the outbuildings to the yard behind the house remains evident.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 41403148
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