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Leopardstown Race Course

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Leopardstown Race Course
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Freestanding single-bay single-storey ticket booth or ticket office, extant 1908, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Hipped corrugated-iron roof with pressed or rolled iron ridges centred on pyramid-topped vent, and cast-iron rainwater goods on chevron or saw tooth-detailed timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Corrugated-iron-covered walls on mass-concrete base with timber-clad monolithic piers to corners. Pair of square-headed door openings with mass-concrete step thresholds, and carved timber surrounds framing boarded-up timber panelled doors having boarded-up overlights. Set at entrance to grounds of Leopardstown Race Course.
A ticket booth or ticket office surviving as an interesting relic of the Leopardstown Race Course complex opened (1888) by Captain George Quin (1842-1917) of Leopardstown House.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 60230034

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Pictures: Sarah777, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Sarah777, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Vadim Manuylov, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Percita at Flickr, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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