Fethard Town Hall — Main Street

End-of-terrace, formerly freestanding multiple-bay two-storey almshouse with attic storey, built c.1610, modified c.1770, having raised gable to centre of façade, and stairs return of c.1770 to rear. Disused as almshouse by 1758 and in use as market house, courthouse and town hall from c.1770. Used for various community purposes, including dance hall throughout twentieth century. Renovated 2014-15 for tourism use. Pitched artificial slate roof with octagonal carved limestone chimneystacks to front gable and west gable, with openwork tops, rendered chimneystack to east gable, and cast-iron vents to ridge. Rendered rubble limestone walls, with three seventeenth-century carved limestone plaques to front facade, comprising two armorial plaques to Everards and Dunboyne Butlers, one crucifixion plaque, and late twentieth-century plaque to Patrick Pearse. Square-headed irregularly-spaced window openings, dating from c.1825, with limestone surrounds of 1990, and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, one tripartite to ground floor, latter formerly serving market office. Several seventeenth-century window openings to façade, gables and rear elevation, though not all visible externally, with cut limestone surrounds and label-mouldings. Square-headed door opening of c.1990 to west end of facade, and elliptical-headed archway to centre of façade, with cut limestone door surround and voussoirs, now having glazed and timber fittings. Two seventeenth-century Tudor-arch doorways at first floor level at rear. Interior retains seventeenth-century features, including corbels that supported original first floor, and three large fireplaces at first floor level, one to front gable and one to each end gable. Weighbridge in pavement to front of building relates to later market house function. Narrow yard to rear, bounding north side of medieval parish churchyard, having seventeenth-century doorway.