Outbuilding on South Circular Road, County Dublin

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Attached twelve-bay single-storey former barracks building, built c.1860, now in use as outbuilding. Pitched slate roof, hipped to south, with red brick chimneystack having clay chimney pot, cast-iron rainwater goods and granite eaves course. Snecked cut calp limestone walls, tooled quoins and plinth course, roughcast rendered wall and cut limestone buttress to north gable. Segmental-arched window openings to front, timber framed windows, tooled calp limestone block-and-start surrounds, dropped granite keystones and granite sills. Some cast-iron railings over openings. Segmental-arched door openings, tooled calp limestone block-and-start surrounds, dropped granite keystones, timber battened doors and small-pane overlights, some replacement steel doors.

The artillery barracks at Islandbridge was built in 1798 and by the 1830s it could house 23 officers, 547 men and had stabling for 185 horses. This building was a later addition to the barracks and reflects the ongoing development and importance of the barracks following the addition of a cavalry barracks in the mid-nineteenth century. It also had a hospital for 48 patients. The complex was renamed Clancy Barracks following Independence in 1922. The fabric of this modestly-proportioned range is similar to that employed in the adjacent ordnance repair workshops, suggesting that they were built at the same time. This repetition creates a pleasing sense of uniformity which makes a strong visual impression on the landscape of the complex.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 50080019

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