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Watch tower in Askillaun [murr. by.]

Watch tower
Watch tower in Askillaun [murr. by.]
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Watch tower in Askillaun [murr. by.] is half an octagon stretched into a little lookout hut. It has the shape of a committee compromise: eight sides were requested, four were funded, and somebody leaned on the drawing.

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Freestanding single-bay single-storey flat-roofed lookout post ["LOP"], between 1939-42, on an elongated half-octagonal plan. Now in ruins. Flat reinforced concrete roof. Rendered mass- or reinforced concrete block walls. Square-headed window openings with no fittings surviving. Set in unkempt grounds.
A lookout post [""LOP 57""] erected during ""The Emergency"" (1939-46) to a standardised design signed by William Henry Howard Cooke (1881-1977) of the Office of Public Works (established 1831) representing an important component of the mid twentieth-century built heritage of County Mayo (cf. 31300101; 31300301; 31300706; 31300801; 31305303; 31307501).

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31308503

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; National Library of Ireland on The Commons, Wikimedia Commons · No restrictions; Jonathan Wilkins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Oliver Dixon, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Steve Edge, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Keith Salvesen, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Colin Park, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Ire2500, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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