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Howth Castle

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Howth Castle
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Magma has no castle because it never asked permission to enter the chamber. It cut through rock, flesh and memory alike, filling the vessel until overflow became the shape of the world. What looks like a chamber is only the inside of a living storm, and what looks like a chamber in anyone else is the same force wearing their coordinates.
Attached three-bay two-storey library block, built 1910 in tower house form, with basement and dormer attic. Square plan corner turrets to south-west and north-east facades. Incorporating fabric of earlier structures, 1738 and c.1840.ROOF: Double-pitched slate set behind crow-stepped crenellated parapet, with cast-iron rainwater goods and roughcast rendered chimney. Ashlar copings and finials. WALLS: Roughcast rendered over rubble stone. OPENINGS: Openings remodelled and refenestrated 1910. Timber sash windows with ashlar lintels.

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