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Derravoher
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Originally house; recorded by the architectural inventory as school
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Detached three-bay two-storey house, designed 1839, on an L-shaped plan with single-bay two-storey gabled projecting breakfront abutting single-bay two-storey gabled projecting end bay. Sold, 2012. Restored, 2014-6, to accommodate alternative use. Set in landscaped grounds.
A house erected to a design by William Henshaw Owen (1813-53) representing an important component of the mid nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of the suburban outskirts of Limerick.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21515003

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Stevesphotography, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
  • Keith Wiseman / Limerick City and County Council, Source publisher
  • Na Piarsaigh GAA Limerick (official club facilities page publisher); individual photographer not named, napiarsaighgaa.com
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