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Castletown Creamery

Creamery, chimney
Castletown Creamery
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Castletown Creamery in Moanduff is now a private house, with its great brick chimney still announcing the dairy business. You could run out of milk there, but you’d have to go to the neighbour’s under cover of darkness.

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Detached irregular-plan former creamery, built c. 1880, now in use as private house. Comprising gable-fronted single-bay two-storey L-plan block to south with three-bay single-storey gable-fronted block to north and adjoining double-pile single-bay single-storey block having square-plan brick chimneystack to north elevation. Pitched slate roofs with brick chimneystacks. Coursed rubble limestone and sandstone walls. Rendered walls to double pile block, north and west elevations. Square-headed openings, some with brick voussoirs and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed window opening to double pile block, west elevation with brick block-and-start surround, now blocked up. Segmental-headed opening to west elevation, north block having brick voussoirs and timber battened door. Square-headed openings to north elevation and south elevation having timber battened doors. Elliptical-headed carriage arch to east elevation with red brick voussoirs, now blocked up. External metal staircase to east elevation.
This substantial building is prominently located beside the River Cahernahallia. It dominates the local area with its robust industrial silhouette, which is particularly accentuated by the red brick chimney. It is well built and is a good example of Victorian industrial workmanship.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21902501

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Dublin Castle RIC, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

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