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Gortnaclea House

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Gortnaclea House
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Map note: There is a map point for Gortnaclea House, a house around GORTNACLEA, County Laois, Ireland. The map has the location of the mystery, though not all its answers.
Detached three-bay two-storey house, c. 1840, with projecting glazed porch to front and two-storey return to rear.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12802347

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