Historic building in Enniscorthy, County Wexford (15603068)

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Section of irregular coursed squared limestone or rubble stone boundary wall, c.1750, originally forming part of larger composition with tooled cut-granite quoins to ends, square-headed door opening with rendered surround, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. In use as hospital, 1798. Remainder of composition…

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The remains of a mid eighteenth-century range exhibiting good quality traditional stone masonry in the construction in barely-refined limestone or rubble stone with granite dressings producing a muted polychromatic visual quality in the composition. Although surviving only as a fragment enhancing the streetscape value of Friary Hill, the wall remains of additional importance as evidence of a temporary hospital established to accommodate casualties from the 1798 Rebellion in Enniscorthy.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15603068

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