Kilcooly Abbey

Square-plan stableyard to south-east of country house, builr c.1845, comprising two-storey ranges around closed yard, with seven-bay entrance ranges to north-west and south-east sides, having advanced end bays to north-west, round-headed integral entrance carriage arches set in pedimented three-bay shallow breakfronts and flanked by windows or segmental-headed carriage arches, with six-bay lateral ranges. Hipped slate and corrugated galvanised roofs with limestone eaves course and brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with louvred fittings to first floor and small-pane timber casement to ground, with limestone sills. Square-headed door openings with timber panelled double and some half-glazed doors, with cut limestone block-and-start surrounds with raised keystones, and timber battened double doors to carriage arches. Second stable yard to south-east, twentieth-century garage and multiple-bay single- and two-storey outbuildings further south and east. Garage has barrel-roofed corrugated-iron roof, concrete panelled walls, and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Multiple-bay single- and two-storey outbuildings with pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs, rubble limestone walls and timber fittings.

A well-executed scheme of outbuildings associated with Kilcool Abbey country house. A coherent symmetrical architectural composition exhibiting good design and interesting features, including pedimented entrance elevations, high quality door surrounds and enhanced by its relative intactness.