Carrickmacross Garda Síochána Station

Terraced four-bay three-storey Garda station with basement, built 1868 as RIC barracks. Projecting flat-roofed porch to front. Pitched slate roof having tooled stone copings, moulded stone corbels, red brick chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared limestone walls having rusticated quoins, rusticated stone surrounds and sills to windows and rusticated walls to porch, latter having corbels supporting rusticated cornice and parapet. Square-headed window openings having timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to lower floors and six-over-three to top floor. Square-headed fixed timber windows to porch sides, with stone shield device above. Square-headed door opening to porch having double-leaf metal doors with overlight. Decorative cast-iron railings set on stone plinth over basement area.

This attractive structure was built by the Marquis of Bath as a constabulary barracks and forms an interesting feature of the east side of Main Street, Carrickmacross. The combination of tooled limestone walls and contrasting rusticated limestone dressings gives the building a robust, though artistic, quality. The use of metal doors reflects its earlier purpose, and details such as the corbelling and the cast-iron railings add interest, and the retention of timber sash windows enhances the heritage value of this public building.