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Rectangular house, 2-storey over basement, built c. 1800 to design of Abraham Hargrave (Bence-Jones 1978, 191). Entrance front (N) has two bays each side of central curved 3-bay bow, central window of which is tri-partite. Central doorway with vertical half door, narrow sidelights, flanked by Ionic columns supporting…

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Rectangular house, 2-storey over basement, built c. 1800 to design of Abraham Hargrave (Bence-Jones 1978, 191). Entrance front (N) has two bays each side of central curved 3-bay bow, central window of which is tri-partite. Central doorway with vertical half door, narrow sidelights, flanked by Ionic columns supporting wide fanlight. Garden front (S) of 5 bays, with limestone string course above basement; house 3 bays deep. Roof hipped with 4 chimneys, 2 on central flat area. One-storey extension to W, with three long roundheaded windows facing onto terrace to S; roof gabled with cut limestone pediment to W. Bence-Jones also mentions 'impressive cantilevered staircase.....Ionic triumphal arch at entrance to demesne by George Richard Pain' (ibid.).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO074-024

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Raúl Corral, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, ie.polomap.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.alamy.com
  • Blackrock National Hurling Club; photographer not named, www.blackrockhurlingclub.com
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