What is recorded here
Detached three-bay single-storey former parcel office, built c. 1870, with gabled central bay. Now in use as house. Pitched slate roofs with overhanging eaves, decorative timber bargeboards and timber finial to gables. Red brick chimneystacks. Rubble limestone walls with red brick quoins. Rendered wall to south.…
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From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20908712
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- Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
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