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Ballysaggartmore House — BARRANAMANOGE

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Ballysaggartmore House — BARRANAMANOGE
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Gateway, c.1845, comprising ogee-headed opening, limestone ashlar polygonal flanking piers, and pair of attached two-bay single- and two-storey flanking gate lodges diagonally-disposed to east and to west comprising single-bay single-storey linking bays with single-bay two-storey outer bays having single-bay three-stage engaged corner turrets on circular plans. Dismantled, post-1935. Now disused and derelict. Roofs not visible behind parapets (most now dismantled) with limestone ashlar paired polygonal chimney stacks, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods. Limestone ashlar polygonal piers to gateway with moulded stringcourses having battlemented coping over, and sproketed finial to apex to opening with finial. Sandstone ashlar walls to gate lodges with cut-limestone dressings including stepped buttresses, stringcourses to first floor, moulded course to first stage to turrets, and battlemented parapets on consoled stringcourses (on profiled tables to turrets) having cut-limestone coping. Ogee-headed opening to gateway with decorative cast-iron double gates. Paired square-headed window openings to gate lodges with no sills, chamfered reveals, and hood mouldings over. Square-headed door openings with chamfered reveals, and hood mouldings over. Pointed-arch door openings to turrets with inscribed surrounds. Trefoil-headed flanking window openings with raised surrounds, and quatrefoil openings over. Cross apertures to top stages to turrets with raised surrounds. All fittings now gone. Interiors now dismantled with internal walls and floors removed. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Ballysaggartmore House with irregular coursed squared rubble limestone flanking boundary walls to perimeter of site having cut-stone coping, and polygonal piers with battlemented coping.

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