Killarney Post Office, County Kerry

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What is recorded here

Attached four-bay three-storey post office, built c. 1900. Parapet wall to facade rebuilt to align with adjoining building. M-pitched artificial slate roof. Red brick English garden wall bond walls with limestone ashlar plinth, moulded brick cornice at first floor sills and entablature to parapet. Brickwork painted at ground floor. Round-headed openings to ground floor having brick pilasters, moulded and stepped archivolts, and hood mouldings. Segmental-arched openings to upper floors with moulded reveals and dentilated moulded sill course. Replacement fittings to openings. Street frontage.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21400898

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David Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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