Survey Data
Reg No
22204313
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Boathouse
In Use As
Boathouse
Date
1835 - 1845
Coordinates
229767, 158409
Date Recorded
26/05/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached single-space single-storey boathouse, built c. 1840, rectangular in plan with stepped screen wall to lake elevation and having boat dock to interior. Pitched corrugated-iron over timber collared rafter roof, having dressed limestone pinnacles to screen wall. Rubble limestone walls, rendered and with pointed arch niches with keystones and stone sills to screen wall. Pointed arch door and boat openings, with dressed limestone surrounds, and having keystones to boat opening.
Appraisal
This is one of a remarkably intact and diverse group of demesne buildings including Kilcooly Abbey itself, its associated outbuildings and smaller dwellings, the nearby bridge, the Church of Ireland church, the old walled graveyard, the ruined Abbey, the dovecote, and the Wellington monument and icehouse in the former deerpark. Not unlike the Wellington monument, its main façade is illusory, having a screen wall presenting a mock Gothic elevation to the viewer across the lake. Behind the screen wall lies a simple rectangular-plan building, with deep water for mooring small pleasure boats.