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Ballydonnellan Castle — BALLYDONNELLAN EAST

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Ballydonnellan Castle — BALLYDONNELLAN EAST
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Ruinous remains of multiple-bay three-storey over basement country house, built c.1750, incorporating tower house, built 1412, to west end. West wall standing over tower house undercroft, central range of house demolished, east elevation, single-bay of garden (south) elevation with full-height canted bay window, and part of east bay of north (front) elevation remain. Roofless. Remains of rendered walls with some cut limestone quoins and string courses. Square-headed openings, dressings and fittings gone. Evidence of plaster cornices to interior. Undercroft with vaulted ceiling having excellent wicker centering. Ruinous remains of outbuilding to east with round-headed arches having cut limestone voussoirs, giving onto single-cell chambers with corbelled ceilings. Remains of carriage arches, set in rendered walls, one with double-leaf wrought-iron gates. Site entrance to roadside with square-profile cut stone piers with decorative cast-iron gates and matching railings set on cut limestone plinth wall, with matching cut limestone terminating piers.

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