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Derryquin Castle

Gate lodge

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Derryquin Castle in Derryquin has grand stone gate piers with a stile beside them. A splendid entrance: one route says “Are you expected?” and the other says “How are your knees?”
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge with dormer attic, built c. 1880, having single-bay single-storey canted projecting bay to left. Steeply pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, ashlar chimneystack and projecting eaves and verges. Random rubble stone walls. Painted sills and render reveals to timber one-over-one pane sliding sash windows. Gateway, built c. 1880, to south comprising pair of rock-hewn limestone ashlar piers with stile to south.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21310012

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Dr Charles Nelson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Marathon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • David Purchase, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Michael Dibb, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Trevor Harris, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Josh Jackson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Yosemite, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Mick Garratt, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Richard Webb, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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