Lough House, County Kerry | Discover Alone

What is recorded here

Lough House in Lough put a dovecote directly above its carriage entrance. Arrive in your finest carriage, have yourself announced, and wait while the upstairs residents decide whether to give a coo.

Detached L-plan six-bay two-storey house, built 1844, set about a courtyard originally intended as stable complex. Single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to left and six-bay two-storey return to rear to south-west. Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Coursed rubble stone walls with ashlar quoins. Red brick flat arches and reveals to openings with limestone sills, some retaining six-over-six pane sliding sash windows, some c. 1900 two-over-two pane sliding sash windows and some replacement timber windows. Attached seven-bay two-storey rubble stone-built outbuilding, built 1844, to north-west on an L-shaped plan completing quadrangle with segmental-headed integral carriage arch to west elevation having dovecote over and flights of steps to entrances to first floor. Set within its own grounds.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21305303

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