Fonthill House, country house in County Dublin

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Detached four-bay two-storey over basement former house, c. 1870, now in use as an office. Red brick walls with granite quoins and string courses, coursed limestone rubble walls to north. Granite surrounds with keystones to window openings housing timber sash windows. Hipped slate roof with timber bracketed eaves and red brick chimney stacks. Limestone rubble yard wall to west and north-west with segmental carriage arch. Cobbled lower yard to west. Granite gate piers to estate road entrance.

A handsome, attractively detailed Victorian house set in mature grounds. Excellent group survival of house, coach house, stables, yard and boundary walls of this property.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11202014

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Fonthill House Coach HouseOutbuilding · 30 yd

Explorer Tom Fonthill House Coach House in Fonthill is showing off its red bricks. Dating back to the 1870s, it’s got these segmental arches that look like they’re about to swallow a carriage whole. Very dramatic, honestly.

Fonthill House stablesStables · 34 yd

Explorer Tom Fonthill House stables are humble but handsome, sitting back where no one can see them being pretentious. Two lads once bet a pint that horses preferred this building to the pub, and they lost badly. End your visit with a wink at the yard walls.

Children's playground643 ydTom: I’m here to help · Computer-made picture. It does not show this playground.

Explorer Tom This Children's playground in County Dublin is full of weird noises. I think the sandbox is actually a speaker for alien radio broadcasts. Press your ear to the sand.

Castle (in ruins)Castle, tower house · 1301 yd

Explorer Tom Castle in Irishtown is just a corner turret surviving in the middle of a housing estate, which is a bit of a party trick. It holds a fake world record for being the most ignored tower house in Dublin. Whisper a secret at it, it's kept worse ones over the years.

Fairy fort / ringfort in PorterstownFairy fort / ringfort · 1459 ydTom: I’m here to help · Computer-made picture. It does not show this monument.

Explorer Tom Porterstown’s ringfort was partially dug up before a church car park was built on top of it. It’s been under concrete so long it thinks it’s a parking meter. Stand on the spot and imagine the gossip it's heard from the cars.

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Well in BallyowenWell · 1.1 miTom: I’m here to help · Computer-made picture. It does not show this monument.

Explorer Tom Well in Ballyowen was used for drinking water back in Joyce's day, but now its exact location is lost. It’s a ghost well that slipped out of the map. Bring a map, get lost anyway, that's the fun.

Castleknock CastleCastle · 1.4 mi

Explorer Tom Castleknock Castle in County Dublin is perched right on top of a big old mound, just showing off. It's next to a college, so maybe the students are living in ghost stories now?

Ginkgo1.5 mi

Explorer Tom Ginkgo in County Dublin would tell its younger self to stop trying so hard to look prehistoric. It’s a survivor, but it doesn’t need to brag about being older than dinosaurs every five minutes. Pretend you're a lost aristocrat, nobody will check your ID at the park gate.

Cherry Orchard Community GardenGarden · 1.7 miTom: I’m here to help · Computer-made picture. It does not show this garden.

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