Survey Data
Reg No
13400808
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Outbuilding
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
211042, 281022
Date Recorded
27/07/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Complex of three single-storey outbuildings arranged around a courtyard to the rear (north) of Carrickmoyragh House (13400809), built c. 1820. Single-storey lean-to extension to the west gable end of outbuilding to the north, flight of stone steps give access to loft level of outbuilding to the west of complex. Pitched natural slate roofs with surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, rendered chimneystack to the centre of the east range. Roughcast lime rendered finish over rubble limestone construction. Square-headed openings with timber battened doors and timber shutters. Segmental-headed carriage to the south end of outbuilding to the east side of complex having redbrick voussoirs to arch and a replacement metal door. Entrance to complex to the southwest. Tall rubble stone boundary walls to site. Located to rear to the north of Newtown-Forbes.
Appraisal
A modest complex of single-storey outbuildings associated with Carrickmoyragh House (13400809), which retain their early character, form and fabric. Their humble form and the lime roughcast rendered finish gives these outbuildings a vernacular character, which creates an interesting contrast with the more formal architectural form of the main house. The survival of many features and materials such as the slate roofs and timber battened doors enhance the group. These outbuildings predate the present Carrickmoyragh House (13400809) and were probably originally built to serve an earlier house to site. This complex provides an interesting historical insight into the resources required to run and maintain a modest country estate in Ireland during the nineteenth century and forms part of a group of related structures along with the main house to the south.