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Island House — ISLAND (Ballaghkeen By., Killincooly ED)

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Island House — ISLAND (Ballaghkeen By., Killincooly ED)
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Detached five-bay three-storey country house, extant 1777, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey projecting porch to ground floor. Damaged, 1798. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Vacated, 1962. Sold, 1963. Replacement flat roof behind parapet, rendered chimney stacks having capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and concealed rainwater goods retaining cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Rendered walls with concrete coping to parapet. Square-headed central window opening in bipartite arrangement (porch) with cut-granite sill, timber mullion, and moulded rendered surround framing four-over-four timber sash windows. Central door opening into country house. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and moulded rendered surrounds framing six-over-nine (ground floor), six-over-six (first floor) or three-over-six (top floor) timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined piers to perimeter having ball finial-topped cut-granite capping.

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