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The Old Forge in Kilgarran

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The Old Forge in Kilgarran
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Detached single-bay single-storey L-plan forge, built 1855. The façade is in squared roughly dressed granite with edge pilasters, kneelers, parapets and finials also in granite. To the front gable is a horseshoe shaped doorway with dressed voussoirs and moulding with an ‘arrow loop’ opening above. The gable is topped…

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Detached single-bay single-storey L-plan forge, built 1855. The façade is in squared roughly dressed granite with edge pilasters, kneelers, parapets and finials also in granite. To the front gable is a horseshoe shaped doorway with dressed voussoirs and moulding with an ‘arrow loop’ opening above. The gable is topped with a ball and cone finial, with octagonal granite chimneystacks to remaining gables. Flat-headed windows with multiple-pane frames to roadside elevation with doorway with plain timber door to south face of the rear projection which is on the west side.
Granite-built blacksmith’s forge of 1855 which picks up some of the Tudoresque elements favoured in much of Enniskerry’s buildings as well as including the typical forge ‘horseshoe’ doorway; forms a memorable grouping with the neighbouring matching blacksmith’s house.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 16302050

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