Orange Hall in Roranna, County Monaghan

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Detached three-bay two-storey Orange hall, built c.1860, having lean-to porch to front (south-east) elevation, two-bay gable ends, and two-storey gable-fronted return to rear to centre of rear elevation. Not in use. Half-hipped slate roof, with decorative timber bargeboards, rendered ridge tiles, and rendered chimneystack. Coursed roughly squared rubble limestone walls, having rusticated block-and-start quoins. Square-headed dressed stone window openings with dressed stone sills, openings blocked to first floor and boarded up to ground floor. Fixed timber window to porch. Square-headed door opening to south-west elevation of porch, having stone lintel and timber battened door. Metal-framed windows to north-east gable. Gauged dressed stone square-headed door opening to south-west elevation of rear return, timber battened door. Set slightly back from road in own grounds.

Although it is no longer in use, this former Orange hall served an important role in the social and political life of the locality. It is enlivened by dressed stone detailing and decorative bargeboards.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 41401637

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