![Knockalla Coastguard Station — Bun na Toinne Mór [Bunnaton More]](https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/building-images-iiif/niah/images/survey_specific/original/40901840_1.jpg)
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Detached six-bay two-storey former coastguard station, built c.1880, having machicolation feature to front and gable elevations with window openings, and projecting single-storey porch extensions to rear (northwest). Hipped slate roof with projecting eaves having exposed timber rafters, three rendered chimneystacks, replacement aluminium rainwater goods, and lean-to slate roofs to extensions. Painted coursed rubble stone walls with margined tooled quoins and raised stone plinth. Machicolations supported on corbelled brackets and smooth-rendered. Mainly camber-arch window openings with painted tooled stone voussoirs and sills, with some square-headed window openings. Replacement uPVC doors and windows. Blocked camber-arch doorway and recently enlarged window openings towards one end of front elevation. Single-storey rubble stone outbuildings to rear, with pitched slate roofs having render copings. Stone walls to boundary to rear with square-plan stone piers supporting wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Set on hill overlooking overlooking Trá Screagaí [Scraggy Bay] and Loch Súilí [Lough Swilly].
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