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The Hellfire Club — Askeaton

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The Hellfire Club — Askeaton
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Detached former barracks/tower, erected in 1636-7, having battered walls with cut stone quoins with remains of three-bay mid eighteenth-century house built on top of battered base. Bow to south elevation of house and shallow projecting end-bay to north elevation. House roofless with limestone eaves course. Coursed rubble limestone walls having tolled quoins, brick stringcourse and brick quoins to upper floors. Square-headed door openings to north elevation. Square-headed window opening to bow with brick architrave. Camber-headed window openings to west having brick voussoirs. Round-headed window opening to east elevation with brick surround, flanked by round-headed niches having brick surrounds and continuous brick sill course. Situated within the bailey of Askeaton Castle.

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