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Creggan House — CREGGAN UPPER

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Creggan House — CREGGAN UPPER
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Two freestanding battlemented towers on square-plan, built c.1820, formerly part of the Creggan House estate (house demolished). Lime rendered walls with projecting ashlar limestone string courses and battlements to parapet. Square-headed and pointed-arch window openings, fittings now gone/blocked. Single tripartite window to one of the towers having cut limestone surrounds, mullions and transoms. Square-headed doorcases with remains of timber sheeted doors. Towers stand to either side of site of Creggan House. Set back from road in own grounds to the southeast of Athlone Town. Rubble limestone boundary wall to the south.

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