Kineigh House, County Kerry

What is recorded here

Kineigh House in Kineigh wears diamond-patterned slate on its back wall. Most houses save the finery for the entrance; this one waits until you’ve walked past, then turns round in the good cardigan.

Detached five-bay two-storey house, built 1750. Renovated and extended to south-east, 1803, comprising three-bay two-storey parallel entrance block. Renovated and extended to north-east, c. 1880, comprising single-bay two-storey gabled advanced end bay with three-bay side elevation and single-storey canted bay window added to entrance block. Now disused and partly derelict. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered rubble stone walls having slate-hanging to rear of east section with diamond patterning and remains of slate-hanging to west gable. Timber paired one-over-one pane sliding sash windows and six-over-six pane to rear, having slate sills and brick flat arches and surrounds. Brick bay window c. 1880. Retaining interior features. Gateway, built c. 1880, to south comprising pair of stone piers with pedestrian gateway to north having cast-iron gate.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21308802

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