What is recorded here
An early eighteenth-century house, built c. 1720 which is depicted on two early to mid-eighteenth-century estate maps as a two-storey building with five bays, a central door with three dormer windows, a hipped roof with a chimney at either end of the roof and a possible wing on either side. The present building has a…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TN013-015
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- Dylan Moore, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- David P Howard, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Odhran Ducie / Nenagh Guardian, www.nenaghguardian.ie
- JP, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- P L Chadwick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
- Maker not stated on source page, www.letsgoireland.com
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