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Derrycunihy Constabulary Barrack

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Derrycunihy Constabulary Barrack
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Derrycunihy Constabulary Barrack has two battlemented corner turrets, which is a fierce amount of castle for a three-bay police station. You’d arrive to report a missing bicycle and wonder whether you ought to have brought a herald.

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Detached three-bay two-storey stone-built former Royal Irish Constabulary barracks, built c. 1850, with single-bay three-storey polygonal corner turrets to north-east and to south-west having battlemented parapets. Now ruinous. Originally with pitched and hipped roofs, retaining rubble stone chimneystacks becoming brick above roof level and having projecting brick bands. Coursed rubble stone walls with projecting stone eaves course, originally rendered, with ruled-and-lined render remains to rear. Wide window openings with flat brick arches externally and swept brick arches internally. Imitation-ashlar render surrounds to windows and door. Lancets to turrets. Yard at rear enclosed by retaining wall. Ruins of lean-to buildings.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21308403

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