Survey Data
Reg No
31301802
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Hunting/fishing lodge
Date
1864 - 1876
Coordinates
87001, 328364
Date Recorded
14/01/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey shooting lodge, between 1864-76, on a U-shaped plan with pair of single-bay (single-bay deep) single-storey returns (east). Occupied, 1901; 1911. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on a U-shaped plan on collared timber construction with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on axis with ridge having stepped capping, remains of timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and no rainwater goods surviving on rendered eaves. Rendered, ruled and lined walls with drag edged tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with drag edged tooled cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals framing rubble stone infill. Square-headed flanking window openings in bipartite arrangement with drag edged tooled cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals framing remains of one-over-one timber sash windows. Shouldered square-headed central open internal porch to rear (east) elevation with drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds.
Appraisal
A shooting lodge erected for Captain Arthur McCallum representing an integral component of the later nineteenth-century built heritage of Contae Mhaigh Eo [north County Mayo]. A prolonged period of unoccupancy notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding much of the character of a shooting lodge having subsequent connections with R. [Richard] O'Brien Hickson (1860-1921) 'of Bangor' (NA 1911); and a succession of stewards including Thomas McManamon (----), 'Caretaker [and] Farm Steward' (NA 1901; NA 1911).