Caragh Lodge, house in County Kerry

What is recorded here

Caragh Lodge in Tooreennasliggaun has rows of angled bay windows jutting out towards the lake. The house seems to have paid for a view, found another bit of lake round the corner, and put its elbows out before anyone else could have it.

Detached L-plan three-bay single- and two-storey Victorian villa, built c. 1875, comprising two-bay two-storey main block, two-bay side elevations having single-bay two-storey advanced bay to east and three-bay single-storey lean-to wing along south elevation with square-headed open internal porch. Lean-to slate canopy along entrance front on timber framing with gablet above entrance. Extended to north in late twentieth century, comprising five-bay two-storey wing at right angles with three-bay two-storey projecting portion to centre having series of two-storey canted bay windows. Now in use as hotel. Pitched and hipped slate roof with central valley, clay ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks with moulded bands and overhanging eaves on timber brackets. Painted and rendered walls. Round- and square-headed windows with tripled one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Retaining interior features. Detached four-bay single-storey rubble stone-built outbuilding, built c. 1875, to east. Detached single-bay single-storey outbuilding, built c. 1875, to east. Gateway, built c. 1875, to north-west comprising pair of roughcast piers with cast-iron gates. Sited on lake shore.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21306403

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