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A three-bay gable-fronted single-storey grotto/hermitage (on rectangular-plan) associated with Waterstown House (15314014), erected c.1780. Built into the side of a south-facing hill with roof now partially collapsed. Constructed using irregular water-worn limestone rubble and overgrown with ivy. Pointed arched window openings to either side of central pointed-arched doorway to the centre of the south elevation. Three niches to north side of interior and the remains of a fireplace to the west side. Located to the north of the ruins of Waterstown House, overlooking a lake to the south. Stone tablet adjacent to grotto reads ' On Sunday the 6th of January 1839, Ireland was visited with a tremendous hurricane which destroyed much of the fine old timber of this demesne'.
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