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Detached H-plan three-storey former military barracks, built c.1813, with projecting three-bay central block with pedimented entrance breakfront topped by cupola and flanked by seventeen-bay blocks. Twenty-two bay three-storey wings to north and south of parade ground to front of main building and former church to southeast. Now in use as national training college for An Garda Síochána. Pitched artificial slate roofs. Ashlar limestone cupola to main building, having weather vane. Roughcast rendered walls with render string courses to entrance block of main building. Recessed round-headed window openings to entrance block and square-headed elsewhere in complex, with replacement uPVC windows and with stone sills. Round-headed double-height opening to entrance block, with glazed entrance. Ashlar limestone block-and-start surrounds to doorways of north wing. Coursed rubble limestone boundary walls with chamfered corners to northwest and southwest, pill boxes to northeast and southeast and integral carriage arch to south perimeter. Ashlar limestone piers with lamps and flanking quadrant walls to main entrance with cast-iron gates.
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