Grange Beg House — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Detached pigeon house, built c.1700. Now in ruins. Approximately seven metres in diameter and three metres high. Constructed of limestone rubble and brick-lined to the interior. Hundreds of pigeon holes remain to the interior. Square-headed doorway to southeast side. Located to the southwest of Grange Beg House (15402105) and to the southeast of Raharney.

An interesting and well-built feature associated with Grange Beg House (15402106) or an earlier castle on the same site (WM021-012---), which is indicated on the Down Survey Map of the area in 1654-6. Pigeon houses were used to provide a ready supply of eggs and pigeon meat and were a relatively common feature in country demesnes in Ireland during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries but appear to have gone out of fashion by the start of the nineteenth century. They are now very rare survivals. This structure forms an interesting pair with the adjacent house and is an interesting addition to the architectural heritage of Westmeath.

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