
What is recorded here
Remains of detached three-bay two-storey pedimented guard house, built 1815-8, on a symmetrical plan. Demolished, 1981. Margined limestone ashlar wall on margined limestone ashlar chamfered plinth with cut-limestone stringcourse on blind frieze. Square-headed (ground floor) or round-headed (first floor) blind openings in round-headed recess with margined rusticated limestone ashlar piers centred on margined rusticated cut-limestone keystone. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Sligo County Gaol.
The remains of a guard house making a pleasing visual statement at the entrance on to the Sligo County Gaol complex.
This does not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.
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