Forge or smithy in Oldcastle, County Meath

What is recorded here

Forge or smithy in Oldcastle has had a modern makeover, but the enormous horseshoe opening rather gives away its past. You can buy a new outfit and move in different circles; someone will still shout, ‘Weren’t you doing feet?’

Detached gable-fronted single-bay single-storey former forge, built 1864. Horseshoe-shaped opening in gable wall with rock-faced voussoirs. Rubble stone walls with strap pointing and rock-faced quoins. Square-headed openings to side elevations with tooled stone surrounds and sills. Date plaque to gable wall. Replacement pitched tile roof with barge boards.

Though this building has been recently modernised, it retains its fine stone work. Architecturally it belongs to an interesting forge type, with the horseshoe-shaped gable opening.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14306070

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