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Castlecomer Post Office — High Street

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Castlecomer Post Office — High Street
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Detached five-bay two-storey post office, c.1825, possibly originally Royal Irish Constabulary barracks on a corner site. Reroofed. Hipped roof with replacement artificial slate, terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, slightly sproketed eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves. Unpainted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and six-over-six timber sash windows having iron bars to ground floor. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door having overlight. Round-headed door opening to side (east) elevation with timber panelled door having overlight. Road fronted on a corner site with concrete footpath to front.

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