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House in Oldcastletown, County Cork (CO018-014----)

House, vernacular house

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Official monument number
CO018-014----
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On NW side of road. A long front elevation of 4 bays, off-centre door to left; window in left end wall with attic window overhead. Half-hipped roof with thatch of wheaten straw, two off-centre brick chimneys.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO018-014

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Picture notes
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Computer-made picture. It does not show this monument.
  • Computer-made picture. It does not show this mountain top.
  • Colin Park, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • The Speckled Bird, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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