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Two square-plan water towers with cast-iron water storage tanks, built 1867, as part of former Monaghan Lunatic Asylum, to designs by Dublin architect and civil engineer John McCurdy. Slightly battered rock-faced sandstone walling with red brick block-and-start quoins and surrounds to openings, and cut limestone corbels to eaves, supporting outer edges of tanks. South-west tower has square-plan brick buttress to north side of east elevation, with stone cap. Painted square-plan cast-iron water tanks with rounded corners having wrought-iron straps to north-eastern tower. Both tanks have step ladders fixed to north-west elevations as well as having low pitched corrugated-iron roofs. Tank to north-west has lettering 'GEORGE CONNELL CONTRACTOR MONAGHAN' in raised lettering cast into north-west side of tank while south-east tank has 'ROSS & MURRAY DUBLIN 1867' cast in all sides. Windows paired on three elevations of towers, with square heads over narrow parallel openings having four-pane fixed timber frames and stone sills. Square-headed doorways to elevations that face each other, having sheeted timber doors. Tanks were originally situated at highest point of hospital site beside boundary which is no longer extant.
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