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| St. Brigid's Training Centre, Ardagh, County Longford
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| 13312042 |
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| Reg. No. | 13312042 |
| Date | 1840 - 1880 |
| Previous Name | Ardagh House |
| Townland | ARDAGH DEMESNE |
| County | County Longford |
| Coordinates | 220350, 268796 |
| Categories of Special Interest | ARCHITECTURAL ARTISTIC HISTORICAL |
| Rating | Regional |
| Original Use | stables |
| In Use As | stables |
| Additional Use | school |
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Description
Detached complex of single and two-storey outbuildings and stableyard, built c. 1863 and possibly containing earlier fabric. Arranged around a courtyard to the rear of Ardagh House (13312039). Some buildings now in use as classrooms. Comprises clock tower, three ranges, and entrance to walled garden (13312043) from within the stableyard. Pitched, hipped, and half-hipped slate roofs with ridge cresting, cast-iron rainwater goods, and decorative bargeboards. Timber louvered lantern to clock tower with metal weather vane. Half dormers to attic of north range. Snecked rock-faced limestone walls, with moulded string course to clock tower. Clock face with carved limestone surround to east and west elevations of tower. Square-headed openings with two-over-two timber sliding sash windows, and timber battened doors. Tooled limestone block-and-start surrounds with chamfered detail. Segmental-arch opening to stableyard, with roll moulding, tooled limestone block-and-start surround and wrought-iron double leaf gates. Segmental-arch openings to east range with timber battened double leaf doors, and fixed timber frame windows. Random rubble stone wall to south with occuli having carved stone surrounds and wrought-iron guards. Stone cobbles to yard. Brixon plank stone paving, and ceramic tiling to internal floors. Covered circular well to centre of stableyard with half hipped slate roof, decorative bargeboards and random rubble stepped stone walls. Four standing lamps with hexagonal glazed heads to yard. Red brick addition to east range east elevation, having lean-to slate roofs and segmental-headed openings. Shouldered segmental-headed openings to north range north elevation with chamfered detail. Set in working farmyard and farmland, with walled garden to east. Located to the east/northeast of Ardagh House and to the north of Ardagh.
Appraisal
The formal arrangement of this stableyard is visually pleasing and it forms an important part of the Ardagh House (13312039) complex. Its scale and form is retained, as well as much character and significant fabric. The quality of the building materials and finishes attests to the attention given to this project. Its scale is testament to the former size of the Fetherston estate and it provides an interesting historical insight into the extensive resources needed to run and maintain a large country estate in Ireland during the nineteenth century. It was erected (or altered) to designs by the architect James Rawson Carroll (1830 - 1911), who carried out various works at Ardagh and Ardagh House for Sir Thomas Fetherston between c. 1860 - 1865. It detailing to the openings, particularly the carved detail to lintels, is of the same design as found to the openings in a number of Rawson Carroll's buildings in Ardagh village. It probably contains fabric from an existing courtyard of outbuildings indicated here on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of the area in 1838. |
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