What is recorded here
Lock on Jamestown Canal, built in 1848 as part of the Shannon-Erne Navigation. Coursed cut stone blocks to retaining walls with name of 'Albert Lock' carved to north side. Tooled stone mooring posts and cast-iron rings. Two lock gates, now mechanised. Adjacent detached three-bay single-storey with attic lock keeper’s house, built in 1848, with return and extension to rear, c.1960. Pitched tiled roof with rendered chimneystacks. Flat roof to extension. Random coursed rock-faced stone walls, now painted with rendered extension. Replacement windows with stone sills. Lancet opening to eastern gable with cast-iron diamond-paned window. Replacement timber battened door and overlight to shouldered-arched opening within gabled porch. Stone and brick outhouse.
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