Castle Shanaghan — CASHELSHANAGHAN

Detached complex of two-storey outbuildings, built c. 1800 and altered c. 1880, comprising five-bay two-storey outbuilding to the west with attached three-bay two-storey outbuilding to the east. Originally associated with Castle Shanaghan (demolished and replaced with modern dwelling). Pitched purple slate roof to main outbuilding to the west having with overhanging eaves with cut stone eaves course, clay ridge tiles, and with raised rendered verge and brick chimneystack to the west gable end. Pitched corrugated-metal roof to adjoining building to east with ashlar verge and rendered rubble stone chimneystack to the east gable end. Random rubble stone walls with flush ashlar and roughly dressed block-and-start quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings at ground floor level having roughly squared rubble stone voussoirs over and with remains of timber windows. Ocular window openings to first floor with red brick surrounds, now blocked. Square-headed doorways and loading bays (first floor level) with roughly dressed voussoirs and battened timber doors. External stone sets to north-west to first floor segment-headed door opening. Square-headed carriage-arches with roughly squared voussoirs, and with corrugated-metal and battened timber doors. Set perpendicular to laneway with rubble stone wall to south-west and set adjacent to the north of two-storey dwelling. Located in the rural countryside to the north-east of Letterkenny, and to the south of Ramelton.