Survey Data

Reg No

20842007


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Social


Previous Name

Ballincollig Cavalry Barracks originally Ballincollig Artillery Barracks


Original Use

Barracks


In Use As

Office


Date

1800 - 1820


Coordinates

159580, 70901


Date Recorded

21/04/2009


Date Updated

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Description

Detached fifteen-bay two-storey former barracks, built c.1810, having three-bay breakfronts to east and west ends of front (south) elevation. Now in use as office. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls having lead cladding to sills and plinth course. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, second last window to east and west ends of front elevation set within round-headed recesses. Square-headed door opening with double-leaf timber panelled door having sidelights and overlight set in render broken pedimented doorcase with central crest and flanking Doric columns. Flight of recent cut limestone steps to door.

Appraisal

This building belongs to an interesting ensemble of former military buildings arranged around a courtyard. Constructed in the early nineteenth century, the military barracks initially provided security for the gunpowder mills located to the north. Together with the related adjacent former barrack buildings, the former mills to the north and Oriel House to the west, it is a reminder of the military history of the area, and of the strategic importance of Ballincollig in European warfare in the nineteenth century.