Dinish Cottage, worker's house in County Kerry

What is recorded here

Dinish Cottage on Dinish Island has names scratched into its window panes going back to 1856. Some lad came for the lake view and decided every visitor after him should enjoy it through the middle of his surname.

Detached L-plan two-bay single- and two-storey over raised basement former game keeper's lodge, built c. 1830, with single-bay two-storey gabled projecting bay to left having single-bay single-storey recessed entrance bay to right. Now in commercial use. Pitched slate roofs with overhanging eaves and verges having boarded soffits, rendered chimneystacks with cornices and cast-iron gutters and downpipes. Painted roughcast rendered walls with timber boarded facing to north extension. Timber transom-and-mullion window and multiple pane casement windows with stone sills and having scratched names and dates to panes - earliest appears to be 1856. Stone steps to covered entrance having double-leaf door. Large upper floor room serving as tea-room with open timber truss roof and boarded ceiling. Attached single-bay single-storey recessed outbuilding to north-east elevation. Gateway, built c. 1830, to east comprising pair of rendered piers with wrought-iron gates. Set on Dinish island facing east across Muckross Lake. Concrete quay serving pleasure boats on lake.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21307404

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