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Saint Fintan's Monastery — Monastery Road

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Saint Fintan's Monastery — Monastery Road
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Detached five-bay two-storey H-plan former monastery, built c. 1880, comprising projecting gable-fronted end bays to front (south-west) and rear (north-west) elevations. Now in disuse. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods, limestone bracketed eaves and decorative timber bargeboards to gabled end bays. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Round-headed niches to end bays front elevation, second floor having render surrounds. Square-headed openings to front elevation with limestone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed openings to rear and north-east elevations having replacement aluminium windows. Square-headed openings to end bays, first floor, front and rear elevations with stained glass windows. Square-headed openings first floor, south-east elevation having stained glass windows. Round-headed opening to south-east with replacement fanlight over timber panelled door and flanking sidelights. Cast-iron round-profile fluted piers to south-east having double-leaf cast-iron gates and flanking pedestrian single-leaf cast-iron gate. Rendered boundary walls with render copings.

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