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Shurock House — SHUROCK (Clonlonan By.)

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Shurock House — SHUROCK (Clonlonan By.)
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Detached three-bay single-storey country house, built c.1760, with a later single-storey Gothic wing to the west having two-storey Gothic towers to either end (east and west), built c.1810. Now ruinous and largely overgrown with ivy. Roof now collapsed, probably originally pitched. Lime roughcast rendered walls having square-headed window openings to single-storey section, now boarded up. Rubble limestone construction to later Gothic wing having pointed-arched openings and clasping buttresses with quatrefoil motifs. Square-headed doorcase to the centre of the original building having a limestone surround with heavy architraves with a projecting keystone with fish-scale detail. Cut stone cornice over with pulvinated frieze. Quadrant walls run away from later Gothic block having pointed-arched niches. Complex of ruinous outbuildings to the east and west and former main entrance to the north (15403021). Located to the north of Moate.

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