House in Keshends, County Donegal

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Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1870. Hipped slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles, two roughcast rendered chimneystacks with cornice and terracotta pots on the roof apex near to gables; third chimneystack projecting from east gable, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course and extending stone eaves course. Square-headed window openings with six-over-three horned timber sash windows to first floor and six-over-six horned timber sash windows to ground floor, with patent reveals and painted sills. New openings and replacement windows to rear. Square-headed door opening flanked by carved stone Doric columns surmounted by carved stone frieze, with replacement door, and rendered step. Set within own grounds. Single-storey outbuilding with pitched slate roof on rubble stone walls, c. 1820, outside site boundary to north.

A fine house in a good condition with many of its original architectural features having been preserved. A rubble stone outbuilding outside the retaining wall to the rear of the house may originally have been associated with the house, but is no longer within the site boundary.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 40904711

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rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house1598 yd

Explorer Tom This former Church of Ireland rectory from c. 1825 has served as a private home since the 1920s, its hipped slate roof and extensions reflecting decades of change.

Beech ParkHouse · 1641 yd

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Children's playground1.4 miComputer-made picture. It does not show this playground.

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Coyles barPub · 1.6 mi

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Burt CastleCastle, tower house · 1.6 mi

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Grianán of AileachHeritage attraction · 2.8 mi

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Explorer Tom Grianán of Aileach Outer Hillfort has a surprise outside the stone fort: three worn earthen rings may belong to a much older hillfort, perhaps from the Late Bronze or Iron Age. I came for one ancient place and found several piled into one hill! The long account below even traces an old road, a cairn and a holy well.

Greenan MountainMountain / peak · 2.8 mi

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Old CastleCastle, tower house · 3.4 mi

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