Survey Data
Reg No
30400203
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Previous Name
Ballymoe Constabulary Barrack
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Garda station/constabulary barracks
Date
1850 - 1900
Coordinates
169720, 271913
Date Recorded
10/10/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached two-storey house, formerly Garda station, built c.1875, and having three-bay first floor and four-bay ground floor. Pitched slate roof with roughcast rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls, having inscribed limestone plaque marking house as birthplace of Éamonn Ceannt, signatory of the Declaration of the Irish Republic in 1916. square-headed six-over-six-pane timber sliding sash windows with painted stone sills, and square-headed doorways, that to public office being later addition of c.1935 to Board of Works design and having ashlar limestone surround with lintel and cornice, and glazed timber panelled door. Building has garden to front bounded by low coursed rubble limestone wall with edge-set coping stones, and wrought-iron pedestrian gate between cut-stone piers. Outbuilding to rear with lean-to roof and rendered walls.
Appraisal
This building was converted for use as a Garda Station in the early years of the foundation of the State, its simple form being typical of many rural stations. The plaque over the entrance and the fine limestone doorcase adds important embellishment and architectural quality. As the birthplace of Éamonn Ceannt, the building has considerable historical importance in the context of the foundation of the State.