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What is recorded here

Detached limestone grotto, built c.1740, next to the Clodiagh River. Comprising of a long passage terminating in a circular room with fireplace. Random rubble stone walls with random rubble corbelling to interior roof. Window openings with cast-iron tracery glazing bars. Tooled limestone door surround, now overgrown.

Designed by Lady Charleville and built with considerable expense to give employment to the poor peasantry in a season of scarcity. The magnificence of this structure is captured in a description by Sir Charles Coote, in 1801, when he describes it as 'finished in true rustic style with a venerable appearance of antiquity'. The architectural significance of the grotto is reflected in its elaborate form and attention to detailing in the window glazing bars and door surround which is unusual for a structure of apparently modest form.

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