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Garda Station — Kilmainham Lane

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Garda Station — Kilmainham Lane
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Castellated screen wall of courtyard, built c.1870, with adjoining pair of three-bay two-storey lodges to interior (south) elevation. Now in use as garda station. Pitched slate roofs having red brick chimneystacks, limestone coping, timber eaves courses and cast-iron rainwater goods, half-dormer windows to east lodge. Yellow brick eaves course to lodge to west. Raised castellated cut limestone parapets to north-facing gables, stepped cut limestone chimneystacks abutting north-facing gables. Snecked calp limestone walls, some dressed stone, some rubble. Segmental-arched window openings, cut limestone surrounds and sills. Timber sash windows with three-over-three pane to first floor, six-over-six pane to ground floor, eight-over-eight pane to west lodge. Segmental-arched door openings, cut limestone surrounds, timber battened and steel doors, some having overlights. Snecked cut limestone to front (north) elevation of screen wall, blind arcades of Tudor arches with chamfered limestone voussoirs and stepped buttresses, flanking central carriage opening, now blocked. Limestone plinth course having carved limestone coping. Carved limestone string course, castellated parapet over. Coursed rubble stone to interior of wall.

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