What is recorded here
Attached five-bay single-storey building façade, built c.1920, having recent limestone and glass office block built within footprint of rest of building. Coursed red-brick walls having moulded limestone plinth and sill courses and with limestone panelled pilasters to corners having moulded plinths supporting limestone…
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From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30319032
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
- Shane.Halloran at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Ian Capper, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Sarah777, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- KevForkan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikimedia Commons contributor · CC SA 1.0
- A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.visitgalway.ie
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