garda station/constabulary barracks — Ardagh

The saved account records: Detached three-bay two-storey former Royal Irish Constabulary barracks, built c. 1863, having an advanced gabled central breakfront and with half dormers to attic. Possibly originally used as an estate worker’s house, now in use as private house.

The saved account records: Pitched natural slate roofs with decorative red brick chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods, and pierced scalloped timber bargeboards to gables.

The saved account records: Snecked rock-faced stone walls over dressed stone plinth with dressed limestone quoins to the corners of main body of building and to breakfront.

The saved account records: Landscaped garden to front, with remains of snecked stone boundary wall, and wrought-iron gate.

garda station/constabulary barracks — Ardagh matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This attractive building retains its early scale and form, and is a fine example of its period. It is characteristic of Victorian estate architecture, which is relatively rare in Ireland. This building, perhaps, retains more of its original fabric than the other estate buildings in Ardagh, including pierced bargeboards and quarry glazing to the window openings, although the boundary wall has been partially demolished. It dates from a specific period of rebuilding and restructuring of the village of Ardagh in the early 1860s. It was erected to designs by the architect James Rawson Carroll (1830 – 1911), who… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.