![An tSean Bheairic [The Old Barrack] — An Fál Carrach [Falcarragh]](https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/building-images-iiif/niah/images/survey_specific/original/40812009_1.jpg)
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Detached five-bay two-storey former constabulary barrack, built c.1890. Later in use as a Garda Síochána station from c.1923. Probably originally a three-bay two-storey building later extend to the east by the addition of two-bay two-storey extension. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to the east. Now in use as a heritage centre\visitor information centre with modern single-storey addition to the rear (north), c.2000. Double hipped natural purple slate roof with exposed rafter ends, replacement rainwater goods, and with three rendered chimneystacks (two central chimneystacks to the western three bays and one to the east) with flat copings over. Roughcast rendered walls over chamfered red brick plinth course, and with raised red brick block-and-start quoins to the corners. Shallow segmental-headed window openings with raised red brick block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs, painted stone sills, and with two-over-two timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed door opening to the centre of three-bay block to the west having red brick block-and-start surround and voussoirs, chamfered red brick capital detail, moulded red brick hoodmoulding, replacement half-glazed timber panelled entrance door, and with overlight. Shallow segmental-headed door opening to the east having red brick block-and-start surround and voussoirs, replacement timber panelled entrance door, and with overlight. Set back from road with brick paving to south, cast-metal painted bollards and flanked with stepped rendered boundary wall to east with brick quoins and flat coping over. Located to the east of the centre of An Fál Carrach [Falcarragh]. Modern single-storey Garda Síochána station adjacent to the west.
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