Overview
Springfort — Patrickswell is recorded as house in Limerick. Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1800, with central breakfront and porch to front (east) elevation added in 1882. Single-storey extension to north elevation, lean-to and four-bay two-storey extension to rear (west) elevation.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1800, with central breakfront and porch to front (east) elevation added in 1882.
People and work
The saved account records: Single-storey extension to north elevation, lean-to and four-bay two-storey extension to rear (west) elevation.
How it changed
The saved account records: Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystacks.
What survives
The saved account records: Pair of square-profile rusticated limestone piers to east with carved caps, double-leaf metal gates and rubble stone walls.
Why it mattered
Springfort — Patrickswell matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: Set in a mature landscape, this house retains much of its original form and structure despite additions to the rear. The floors of the building are differentiated by the use of diminishing windows, with decorative tripartite windows to the ground floor. The porch adds an element of ornamentation and obscures a particularly fine entrance complete with ornate spoked fanlight. The site retains a fine courtyard and well-crafted limestone piers. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
- Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballybronoge Northmonument0.1 miles
- bridge — Patrickswellbuilding0.2 miles
- Patrickswell Railway Stationbuilding0.2 miles
- Designed landscape feature in Attyflinmonument0.3 miles
- Fulacht fia in Attyflinmonument0.3 miles
- Lissardmonument0.3 miles
- Lissard, Hachured — Attyflinmonument0.3 miles
- Ring-ditch in Ballybronoge Southmonument0.4 miles
- milestone/milepost — Patrickswellbuilding0.4 miles
- Hearth in Ballybronoge Southmonument0.4 miles
- Outlined — Attyflinmonument0.5 miles
- Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballybronoge Southmonument0.5 miles
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