Ric barracks in Cloongownagh

Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1840, with single-bay single-storey addition to north elevation and two-bay single-storey extension to rear (west) elevation. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and render copings. Pitched slate roof to addition, flat roof to extension. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings to first floor having bipartite one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed openings to ground floor with timber casement windows and limestone sills. Square-headed opening having half-glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed opening to addition with timber battened door. Rubble limestone boundary walls to east having square-profile rubble limestone piers with single-leaf cast-iron gate. Pair of square-profile rendered piers to north-east having double-leaf metal gates.

This simple nineteenth-century house may have been in use as a barracks. It displays an irregular fenestration rhythm comprising square-headed openings, some of which retain their bipartite sash windows.