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Killakee House, gate lodge in County Dublin (11221017)

Gate lodge
Killakee House
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What is recorded here

Detached four-bay single-storey former gate lodge, c.1850, now in use as a house. Smooth rendered walls. Replacement leaded timber casement windows. Canted bay window to east facing gates. Projecting hip-roofed porch with timber door having architrave surround. Low hipped slate roof with wide projecting eaves and central rendered chimney stack. Single-storey extensions to west with pitched slate roofs and chimney stack. Stands inside set of cast-iron railings with ornate iron gate posts.
This pretty lodge, which retains much original fabric, was formerly an entrance to Killakee House, and home to the evicted Lady Massy. It stands prominently behind a beautiful gateway at a fork in the road.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11221017

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Recorded change of use
Originally gate lodge; recorded by the architectural inventory as house
Official building number
11221017
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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • JP, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Alan James, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Sarah777, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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