Fermoyle House, County Kerry

What is recorded here

Fermoyle House has a Gothic doorway with fancy tracery, buttresses and steps up to it. You’d go round to borrow an egg and find yourself announcing that you had travelled three days with a warning for the master.

Detached seven-bay two-storey Georgian Gothic Revival style house, built c. 1790, with three-bay two-storey flanking canted end bays and three-bay side elevations. Door opening to centre approached by flight of steps having limestone ashlar architrave with pediment flanked by sandstone buttresses above. Pitched slate roofs with central valley, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimneystack and parapet walls. Sandstone ashlar walls with moulded string courses, first floor centre bays are rendered. Timber casement windows with tracery to first floor centre window. Limestone doorcase set in sandstone relieving arch, having ogee-headed doorway flanked by tracery sidelights, with Gothic Revival panelling to door. Gateway, built c. 1790, to east comprising pair of rendered panelled piers with cast-iron gates.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21303501

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