Cloghmoyle Castle

Ranges of multiple-bay single- and two-storey domestic outbuildings, built c.1740, to the rear site of a modernised detached L-plan multiple-bay two-storey house to north. Site bounded by rendered random coursed wall. Pitched slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles and stone chimneystacks. Lime washed random coursed walls with cast-iron tie-bar plates. Window openings with timber battened shutters and stone sills. Slit vents to upper storey of south range. Square-headed door openings with timber battened doors and overlights to some. Segmental-headed carriage arches, some with replacement timber gates. Segmental-headed integral carriage arch in south range giving access to rear laneway. Hipped and pitched pan-tiled roof to house with roughcast render to walls and replacement windows. Rear of house faces road. Site bounded by part-rendered random coursed wall, lime-washed to interior, crenellated in parts, battered to north and buttressed to west. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate set to round-arched opening with limestone steps and wrought-iron railings. Round-arched vehicular gateway with corrugated-iron gate and square-headed pedestrian gate to west.

This intact complex of outbuildings, together with their associated house, forms an important architectural group within Shinrone. Though the house is much altered, its uneven fenestration and its orientation with its rear to the road auggests an early date. The outbuildings, however, retain their original form and design and with much original fabric. The enclosing walls, with their associated gateways with crenellations, buttresses and battered sections, provide a substantial architectural addition to the Shinrone streetscape and highlight the site's defensive nature.