workshop

Detached twenty-bay two-storey former military barracks, built 1862, having three-bay terminating breakfronts to front (south) and rear (north) elevations. Hipped slate roof with tooled calp limestone chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and granite eaves course. Snecked cut calp limestone walls, tooled quoins and plinth course. Square-headed window openings to first floor, six-over-six pane timber sash windows. Segmental-arched window openings to ground floor, timber framed windows. Tooled block-and-start limestone surrounds, dropped granite keystones and granite sills throughout. Some cast-iron railings over openings. Some openings blocked. Segmental-arched door openings, tooled calp limestone surrounds, dropped granite keystones, timber battened doors and overlights. Some replacement steel doors.

The artillery barracks at Islandbridge was built in 1798 and by the 1830s it could house 23 officers, 547 men and had stabling for 185 horses. It also had a hospital for 48 patients. One of three similar buildings which served as ordnance repair workshops, this building was a later addition to the barracks and reflects the ongoing development and importance of the barracks following the addition of a cavalry barracks in the mid-nineteenth century. Regularity of design and proportion is seen in the even fenestration arrangement and breakfronts, which enhance the symmetry of the plan. The use of squared calp in the walls contributes to its stoic, forbidding aspect, and is subtly enlivened by granite detailing. The complex was renamed Clancy Barracks following Independence in 1922.