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Rectangular 2-storey house of early/mid-19th-century appearance. Entrance front (NE) of 5 bays; central door with engaged Corinthian columns supporting fanlight. Central rectangular 1st-floor window with Neo-Perpendicular tracery. Side elevations 2 bays deep. Central shallow projection to rear with large round-headed window. Hipped roof with two off-centre chimneys. Forest House, shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map c. 700m to NNW, no longer survives.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO072-056

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Jo and Steve Turner, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Sole Origami, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Corkonian2013, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Frederick Dean, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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