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Lifeboat station in Tankardstown

Lifeboat station

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Detached four-bay single-storey stone built former lifeboat station, built 1889. Three-bay single-storey boathouse to east. ROOF:Double pitched with only timber rafters surviving in places; double pitched corrugated iron roof on smaller building to east. WALLS:Coursed limestone walls; ashlar limestone plinth course; string courses; limestone buttresses to corners; front/sea façade is rendered; smaller building has rockfaced limestone with quoining.OPENINGS:Slightly segmental headed window openings with limestone dressings, chamfered cills, port of timber sase & frames survive, blocked up with concrete blocks placed inside windows. Smaller adjacent building, carriage arch opening with limestone dressings at gable end also blocked up.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11305010

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  • Jonjobaker, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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