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Syngefield House

House, 18th/19th century

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Partially destroyed mid-18th-century two storey house built over a basement with fine venetian door with venetian window directly above. Diocletian window at basement level with gabled addition to rear of house. Impressive mid-18th-century staircase and impressive large 18th-century gate piers still survive. (Garner 1985, 35) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record OF035-034

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