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Glengarriff House Hotel — DROMGARRIFF

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Glengarriff House Hotel — DROMGARRIFF
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Detached nine-bay two-storey former house with pair of three-bay full-height bows, built c.1800, having rectangular-plan three-stage castellated tower with bartizan to south-west and circular-plan tower to north-east corner. Three-bay two-storey wing attached to five-stage circular-plan tower, set at angle to main block, and terminating in three-stage tower with battered base, attached to ogee-headed carriage arch, having three-stage flanking tower. Later in use as hotel, now in ruins. Pitched roof and rendered chimneystacks to three-storey wing. Glazed roof to circular-plan tower. Castellations to three-bay wing and square-plan tower. Rubble limestone walls, with remains of lined-and-ruled, roughcast and smooth rendered walls. Label mouldings to three-storey wing and circular-plan tower openings. Ogee-headed openings with concrete sills and render surrounds to west elevation. Square-headed opening with concrete sills to remaining openings. Pointed arch, square-headed and ogee headed door openings.

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