Killagally Park, rectory in County Offaly

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Detached three-bay two-storey over basement glebe house, built c.1790, with bowed bays to rear elevation. Located in estate beside River Brosna. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and timber sash windows. Continuous limestone sills to windows on rear bow. Wyatt windows to ground floor front elevation and segmental-headed window opening to entrance bay. Segmental-headed door opening with timber panelled door flanked by timber pilasters and sidelights and with decorative fanlight. Door accessed up limestone steps. Former staff accommodation to south-east of house with two-storey ranges of buildings arranged around a yard with pitched slate roofs and timber sash windows. Farmyard to south of house with single- and two-storey outbuildings and sheds with pitched slate roofs, roughcast rendered walls and carriage arch openings. Single-storey gate lodge, altered and extended, and cast-iron double gates flanked by limestone piers and quadrant walls to north of house.

Though Killagally Park has been neglected and allowed to fall into dereliction over the years, it is now undergoing major renovation and its future is secure. The large segmental-headed door opening dominates the façade of Killagally Park and seems to dominate the small window openings on the first floor. The rear elevation is hidden behind tall trees and vegetation, however, it is possible to make out the elegant central bow bay and the additional bow bay to the south of the central bow that is possibly a later alteration. The survival of the original timber sash windows, Wyatt windows and door contributes to the architectural significance of the house and its character. The accommodation yard, farm yard, gate lodge, entrance gates, winding avenue and River Brosna all contribute positively to the setting of the house and together form an important group of structures. The gate lodge remained in continuous occupation and was extended and altered over the years.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14914004

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