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Turnpike Cottage

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Turnpike Cottage
Photo: Eric Jones, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original Geograph photograph · Report the wrong picture

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Recorded construction date: 1740 - 1759. Current recorded use: House.

From the Northern Ireland Historic Buildings Record record HB19/05/124

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  • Maker not stated on source page, www.irishstar.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
  • Maker not stated on source page, br.pinterest.com
  • Eric Jones, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Albert Bridge, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Dean Molyneaux, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
  • Albert Bridge, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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