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Dean Egan Library — Main Street

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Dean Egan Library — Main Street
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Detached five-bay single-storey former public library, dated 1930, with single-bay flat-roofed entrance porch to the centre of the main elevation (northeast) and single-storey lean-to extension to rear (southwest). Now in use as a community centre. Pitched tiled roof with central pyramidal roofed louvered vent on square-plan and with rendered chimneystacks to the rear. Painted pebbledashed walls with painted smooth rendered eaves and plinth courses. Painted channelled smooth rendered walls to porch. Square-headed window openings with painted smooth render surrounds, painted rendered sills and replacement windows. Diocletian window to central bay (behind porch) with painted smooth render surround and timber casement window. Square-headed opening to front face of porch with double leaf timber panelled door, having painted metal lettering and electrical lamp above entrance. Recessed from road having painted pebbledashed boundary walls with painted smooth rendered piers with stepped profile and iron gates, to site. Located to the northwest end of Ballymahon.

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