Shamrock Lodge

Detached three-bay single-storey shooting lodge with half-dormer attic, c.1800, on a square plan with single-bay full-height gabled projecting entrance bay to centre. Extended, c.1925, comprising single-bay single-storey lean-to end bay with half-dormer attic to right. Subsequently in private residential use, pre-1948-9. Extensively renovated. Now disused. Hipped roof (gabled to entrance bay; gabled to half-dormer attic windows; lean-to to end bay) with replacement artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks (one on axis with ridge), slightly sproketed eaves, and iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted replacement rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door having sidelights. Square-headed door openings to ground floor (one blind) with replacement glazed timber doors. Set back from road in own grounds with unkempt grounds to site. (ii) Detached three-bay two-storey outbuilding, pre-1840, with two-bay single-storey recessed wing to right. Reroofed. Now disused. Hipped roof (pitched to wing) with replacement artificial slate, terracotta ridge tiles, slightly sproketed eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves having iron ties. Painted roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and timber fittings. Square-headed door openings with timber fittings.

A modest-scale house of idiosyncratic appearance on account of distinctive characteristics including the somewhat informal massing on a compact plan, the many gables articulating the skyline, and so on. Although many of the essential attributes survive intact extensive renovation works have included the replacement of much of the original fabric, thereby impacting upon the character of the site. Originally intended as a shooting lodge the house remains of particular importance in the locality for the connections with the Power, the Ardchall, the Connellan, the Seigne (Synge), and the Gooley families.