Carndonagh Courthouse

The saved account records: Detached five-bay two-storey over basement former courthouse, built 1873 and ‘reconstructed’ in 1925, having central shallow three-bay breakfront .

The saved account records: Formerly with library to ground floor.

The saved account records: Bounded on road-frontage to the south by low rubble stone boundary wall (added 1878) having chamfered cut stone coping over with wrought-iron railings over, and with cut stone piers at interval along length.

The saved account records: Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls at first floor level and channelled smooth rendered walls at ground floor level separated by smooth rendered stringcourse

Carndonagh Courthouse matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This fine if rather austere mid-to-late nineteenth-century classical-style courthouse retains its early form and character. The subdued classical detailing, including entablatures to the window openings and the channelled walls at ground floor level, helps to give this building a strong presence in the streetscape of Carndonagh and air of authority that befits an important civic building such as a courthouse. It follows a standard courthouse pattern of a three-bay central block with single-bays to either side providing separate entrances for the judge etc. and the public. There was also formerly a library here… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.