Carrickmacross Courthouse, court house in County Monaghan

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Detached five-bay two-storey courthouse, built 1837, with slightly advanced end bays, with single-storey entrance bays to each end that are recessed to front and projecting to rear. Hipped slate roof, with rolled read ridges, cut-stone eaves course atop block corbels, and built-in cast-iron box guttering. Rendered chimneystacks to rear elevation. Exposed random squared and coursed sandstone with cut-stone dressings including flush quoins, plinth and plat bands. Raised stone surrounds to window openings of front elevation. Segmental-headed window openings to ground floor end bays of front elevation, square-headed elsewhere, with moulded cornices to first floor front, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorways with console brackets and entablatures, and panelled double-leaf timber doors. Building closes vista at north end of Main Street, and is set with garden to front behind ashlar sandstone wall with cast-iron railings and double-leaf pedestrian gate.

This carefully sited courthouse follows a standard courthouse design attributed to William Caldbeck. It has a typically well designed Classical style employing good stonework detailing and early use of cast-iron for building components. Its location, closing the vista, at the north end of Main Street, makes it one of the more prominent buildings in Carrickmacross.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 41310005

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