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Roofless 2-storey house c. 50m E of tower house (14358). Random-rubble limestone construction. Rectangular in plan (17.1m NE-SW; 6.8m SE-NW; wall thickness 0.62m), extended by 4.36m at SW end by similar addition. Gable-ended; SW gable no longer survives. Steeply pitched NE gable with chimney of 17th-century appearance, chimneys project internally. NE gable elevation has two narrow lintelled opes at ground floor with slightly larger lintelled opes at 1st floor. NW elevation of 6 bays; rough stone-arched ground floor window opes; 1st-floor windows immediately under eaves may have been lintelled; top of arches visible at ground floor level at NE end are probably top of ope into former basement level. Off-centre door ope damaged due to widening, remains of arch visible; old photograph (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 3, opp. 11) shows it as partially damaged narrow camber-headed door ope, no windows occur at first floor level over door or adjacent window to right. SE elevation masked behind modern sheds; stone-arched door ope at SW end and off-centre stone-arched window ope overhead just under eaves, inserted door ope at NE end. Access to interior difficult. Grove White (1905-25, vol. 3, 13) refers to house containing 'cellar, oven, kitchen and three rooms on ground floor and rooms overhead'; may be house referred to by Smith (1750, vol. 1, 388) as property of Mr Welstead. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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