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Sean Connolly Barracks — Church Street

hospital/infirmary
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Sean Connolly Barracks — Church Street
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Detached four-bay two-storey former military hospital, built c. 1820. Now in use as barrack related building. Former morgue and auxiliary building to rear (north). Addition to west elevation, and two-storey extension to rear (north). Pitched artificial slate roof with painted rendered chimneystacks to either end gables (east and west) and cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped artificial slate roof to addition. Painted rendered walls. Projecting buttresses/pilasters to either end of the main façade (south). Dressed limestone snecked walls to addition. Square-headed window openings with stone sills. Some two-over-two pane timber sliding sash with a variety of replacement windows. Tooled limestone block-and-start surrounds and stone sills to addition window openings. Square-headed entrance opening with replacement glazed timber panelled entrance door. Hipped slate roofs with dressed limestone eaves courses and tooled coursed limestone chimneystacks to morgue and auxiliary building. Random rubble stone and dressed snecked limestone walls. Square-headed openings with six-over-six timber sliding sash windows and timber frame windows with hinged panes. Tooled limestone block-and-start surrounds. Timber battened entrance doors. Random rubble limestone walls to rear. Situated within the grounds of Sean Connolly Barracks and to the north end of Longford Town centre.

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