Castlebar Infantry Barracks

Detached two- or three-bay two-storey "Front Entrance", sanctioned 1828; under construction 1831; extant 1838, on a symmetrical U-shaped plan with two-bay single-storey flanking wings. Now disused. Hipped slate roofs centred on pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, creeper- or ivy-covered cut-limestone coping to gables with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar chimney stacks to apexes having cut-limestone stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed coursed or snecked limestone walls on drag edged tooled cut-limestone plinth with drag edged tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Elliptical-headed central carriageway with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs centred on drag edged tooled cut-limestone keystone framing replacement mild steel double gates. Square-headed flanking door openings with drag edged tooled cut-limestone lintels framing timber boarded doors. Square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (wings) with cut-limestone sills, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Lane fronted at entrance to grounds of Castlebar Infantry Barracks.