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Abbey View — Clonfert

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Abbey View — Clonfert
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Detached house, built c.1750, comprising two-storey block having three-bay ground floor and two-bay first floor, with slightly lower further bay to west end, projecting taller single-bay block to east, and with porch projecting to re-entrant corner. Formerly used as Royal Irish Constabulary Barracks c.1910, now in use as private house. Porch has hipped slate roof. Slate roofs, pitched to house and hipped to porch, with clay ridge tiles, cement rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings throughout, with painted sills and variety of timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to porch with timber panelled door with paned sidelights. Timber battened doors to west gable. Garden to front of house, bounded by rendered boundary wall with rendered coping and having wrought-iron gate and railings inset in walling. Rubble limestone outbuildings ranged around yard to west and south.

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