Kilrush Courthouse, court house in County Clare

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Attached four-bay two-storey courthouse, built 1830-1, to design by William Hunt with central round-headed door opening and seven-bay two-storey return. Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered parapet having cut-stone copings and eaves cornice. Rendered walls with cut-stone quoins and moulded limestone architraves to first floor openings. Gibbsian surround and timber panelled double leaf doors to round-headed door opening. Segmental-arched door opening with timber panelled door and overlight. Segmental-arched openings to ground floor and square-headed openings to first floor with timber casement windows.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20301224

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