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https://hdl.handle.net/10599/6604| Title: | Aircraft Hangar, Junkers Avenue, Baldonnell Aerodrome, Newcastle, South Dublin County |
| Authors: | National Inventory of Architectural Heritage |
| Keywords: | Aircraft hangar Flight shed Yellow brick buttressed corner piers Aviation Sliding hangar doors brick arcade Takeoff point of first east-west Atlantic flight Belgard Aerodrome "Blue Max" film J Fitzmaurice and Baron E G Hunefeld |
| Issue Date: | 1-Jan-2002 |
| Publisher: | Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government |
| Description: | Detached former flight shed, c.1917, now in use as an aircraft hangar. Yellow brick buttressed corner piers, the eastern incorporating an open platform. Seven bay lean-to brick office ranges to north and south, with uPVC casement windows. Walls and roof re-clad, c.1990, with corrugated metal. Sliding hangar doors to north and south on original cast-iron frames. Internal wall forms brick arcade.Associated memorial to first east-west Atlantic flight and inscribed stone panel inset in ground marking take-off point in 1928. |
| URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10599/6604 |
| Appears in Collections: | National Inventory of Architectural Heritage Collection Published Items |
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