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forge/smithy — KILFANE WEST

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forge/smithy — KILFANE WEST
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Detached three-bay single-storey forge, c.1875, on a corner site with two-bay single-storey rear (east) elevation. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stacks having stringcourses, and no rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves having remains of timber eaves board. Coursed random rubble limestone walls with tooled cut-limestone quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds (no surrounds to rear (east) elevation), red brick voussoirs, and timber boarded panel fittings. Horse shoe-shaped door opening with tooled cut-limestone surround, and timber boarded double doors. Set back from line of road in own grounds on a corner site with unkempt grounds having random rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter of site.

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