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Cathal Brugha Barracks — Military Road

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Cathal Brugha Barracks — Military Road
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Detached twenty-one-bay two-storey barrack range, built c.1810, having recent pedimented pavilion to front (east) elevation, and returns and recent extensions to rear (west) elevation. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystacks, terracotta ridge cresting and finials, granite eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods and masonry coping. Square-profile domed turret over recent pavilion. Snecked rubble calp limestone walls having calp limestone plinth course. Red brick to returns. Rendered walls to recent pavilion, arcaded to ground floor, with colonade to first floor. Square-headed window openings having yellow brick block-and-start surrounds, granite sill, one-over-one pane timber sash windows, six-over-six pane timber sash windows and tripartite timber sash windows. Square-headed door openings to front, having cut granite Gibbsian surrounds and stepped keystones, timber battened doors, overlights and cast-iron bootscrapes.

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