Survey Data
Reg No
22208104
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Previous Name
Caher Barracks
Original Use
Barracks
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
204374, 123403
Date Recorded
22/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay two-storey barracks, built c.1800, with boundary walls and entrance arches to south-west. Now in state of ruin. Rubble limestone boundary walls with gun loop openings. Segmental-arched entrance with cut limestone walls and voussoirs surmounted by carved limestone entablature. Flanked by square-headed pedestrian entrances set in boundary wall, western entrance now blocked. Cut limestone block-and-start surround to eastern entrance with cut voussoirs to entrance head. Wrought-iron gates to entrances.
Appraisal
Although now in a state of ruin, this former barracks once played an important social and political role in the South Tipperary/North Cork area. The stationing of British soldiers here over a period of a hundred years is a reflection of Ireland's turbulent political history. The design typically incorporate notable gun loops and entrance arches.