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Castletown House — COTTLESTOWN

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Castletown House — COTTLESTOWN
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Detached four-bay three-storey rubble stone fortified house, built c. 1600. Rectangular plan. Roof missing, rendered corbelled chimneystacks to east and west gables. Partially roughcast random rubble limestone walling, main south elevation with slightly projecting parapet, bartizan to south-east corner with insitu concrete tank c. 1940, cut-stone dressings and pointed corbels, parapet string course, battered base, north elevation with bartizan to north-west corner with pointed corbels. Square-headed window openings to upper storeys, rendered reveals, stone sills. Several defensive slit openings to ground floor, dressed stone chamfered surrounds, hood moulds. Segmental-arched entrance openings in east gable, square-headed opening to south. Surrounded by grass, rubble stone wall linking south-west corner with north wall of corn mill to south.

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