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Carker House, country house in County Cork (CO017-098----)

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CO017-098----
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Heavily overgrown ruin of 18th-century house: 2-storey over basement. Entrance front (S) of 6 bays, central 2-bay pedimented breakfront. Central round-headed door ope, flanked by sidelights, with limestone surround. Brick-arched camber-headed windows. Bow-ended side elevations of 2 bays. Projections to rear containing…

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Heavily overgrown ruin of 18th-century house: 2-storey over basement. Entrance front (S) of 6 bays, central 2-bay pedimented breakfront. Central round-headed door ope, flanked by sidelights, with limestone surround. Brick-arched camber-headed windows. Bow-ended side elevations of 2 bays. Projections to rear containing staircases and fireplaces, windows in W elevation have 18th-century moulded sills. According to local information, built in 1790s onto earlier house; Grove White (1905-25, vol. 2, 21) suggests house incorporates part of '...old castle...'; house abandoned in 1957. Vacant 2-storey ornate ranges of farm buildings to rear, keystone in archway inscribed 'J.W.E. 1878'. Fine entrance piers survive. See Excavations 2003, 42.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO017-098

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