Keel House — KEEL (MOYDOW BY.)

Detached five-bay two-storey former house, built c. 1830, with lean-to porch to rear elevation (north). Formerly in use as a school with attached school master’s accommodation. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding with attic storey attached to the west gable end. Now disused. Pitched natural slate roof with cut stone eaves course, rubble stone chimneystacks to gable ends (east and west) and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast render finish over roughly coursed limestone and pudding stone walls; render now failing. Square-headed window openings with tooled cut limestone sills and two-over-two pane diminishing timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings to rear (north) at first floor level having paired four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows. Central square-headed door opening to main elevation having decorative overlight with leaded tracery, and double-leaf timber panelled doors. Pitched natural slate roof and random rubble limestone and pudding stone walls to attached outbuilding to west. Two multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings to the rear on L-shaped plan, built c. 1880, having pitched natural slate roofs, random rubble limestone walls, square-headed window and door openings with stone sills, timber fittings and some with limestone voussoirs, and segmental-headed carriage arches with yellow brick voussoirs. Rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) give access to outbuildings from road to the east. Set slightly back from road with house/former school aligned at a right-angle to the road alignment. Located to the southwest of Ardagh with modern house to front yard of house/former school (south).