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Carrickmacross Courthouse — Main Street

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Carrickmacross Courthouse — Main Street
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Detached five-bay two-storey courthouse, built 1837, with slightly advanced end bays, with single-storey entrance bays to each end that are recessed to front and projecting to rear. Hipped slate roof, with rolled read ridges, cut-stone eaves course atop block corbels, and built-in cast-iron box guttering. Rendered chimneystacks to rear elevation. Exposed random squared and coursed sandstone with cut-stone dressings including flush quoins, plinth and plat bands. Raised stone surrounds to window openings of front elevation. Segmental-headed window openings to ground floor end bays of front elevation, square-headed elsewhere, with moulded cornices to first floor front, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorways with console brackets and entablatures, and panelled double-leaf timber doors. Building closes vista at north end of Main Street, and is set with garden to front behind ashlar sandstone wall with cast-iron railings and double-leaf pedestrian gate.

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