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Dromkeen

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Dromkeen
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Dromkeen in Ballybeg is derelict, but it still has the long drive of a small country house. Even in ruin, it makes you spend a decent stretch approaching it. You can lose the windows; you must never look too available.

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Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, with remains of wing to north-east elevation and basement to rear. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and terracotta ridge tiles. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with remains of timber fittings and cut limestone sills. Abutting wing having roughly dressed limestone walls with red brick block-and-start surrounds to square-headed openings. Remains of outbuildings arranged around courtyard to rear having dressed limestone walls and square-headed openings. Segmental-arched entrance arch to yard having cut limestone voussoirs and remains of timber battened door. Wrought-iron gates to front of site flanked by cast-iron circular-profile piers.
Although now in a derelict state the symmetrical proportion of this house mark it out as a small country house rather than a farm house. Set within its own grounds with long drive the accompanying outbuildings, abutting wing and remains of entrance gates signify a structure that was once a fine building.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21902408

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; EamonnPKeane, Wikimedia Commons · CC0

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