Icehouse in Castlecoote, County Roscommon

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Sir Charles Coote built a fortified house (RO039-061002-) at the site of Malby's fortified house (RO039-061001-) after 1616. By the time of the Strafford survey (1635-8) a bridge (RO039-061003-) crossing the Suck E of the house had been built since it is marked on the Strafford map of Athlone barony (Simington 1949). The ice-house was constructed probably in the late 17th or early 18th century on low-lying ground c. 10m S of the bridge. The base of a spherical chamber (int. diam. c. 4m) constructed of masonry (T 0.9m) survives with a vaulted rectangular chamber (int. dims 4.1m N-S; 2.8m E-W; present H 1.2m) on its S side which communicated with the ice-chamber by means of two hatches (Wth 0.5m; H 0.45m; L 1m). The mound has been removed, and the spherical chamber is truncated by the E side of the expanded mill-race (RO039-061004-).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO039-061011

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