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engine house — BARRYSTOWN

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engine house — BARRYSTOWN
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Silver mines complex, recommissioned 1845, including: Freestanding single-bay single-storey engine house on a square plan. Decommissioned 1851. Recommissioned, 1913. Disused, 1922. Now in ruins. Roof now missing. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls with rough hewn rubble limestone flush quoins to corners; part creeper- or ivy-covered red brick English Garden Wall bond chimney stack (north-east) on a circular plan on coursed rubble stone base with remains of red brick header bond corbelled stepped capping. Round-headed opening (south) with red brick block-and-start surround. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds on a slightly elevated site.

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