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Title:	Loreto Abbey, Grange Road, Rathfarnham, South Dublin County
Authors:	National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Keywords:	four-storey multiple-bay former nunnery and school transomed windows former Rathfarnham House attic cruciform wing chapel buttresses octagonal chimney stacks Single, twin and triple lancets traceried window Battlemented turrets bellcote Rubble walls dormers mullioned windows hexafoil shouldered ogees Banded slate roof with cast-iron cresting Terminal tower clasping buttresses oriels rock-faced granite walls Snecked walls Patrick Byrne John Benjamin Keane Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin William Henry Byrne C B Powell,
Issue Date:	1-Jan-2002
Publisher:	Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Description:	Detached three- and four-storey multiple-bay former nunnery and school, c.1838, now unoccupied. U-plan with annexes, incorporating former Rathfarnham House. Four-storey with attic cruciform wing to south, incorporating chapel of 1838-40 on second storey. Five bays to nave, shallow buttresses terminating in octagonal chimney stacks. Single, twin and triple lancets as storeys rise, traceried east window. Battlemented corner turrets, northern carrying bellcote. Rubble walls. Pitched slate roof. Extension to north, c.1870, three storeys to attic with dormers, two bays by four. Two light mullioned and transomed windows with hexafoil above to first floor, shouldered ogees to ground floor. Banded slate roof with cast-iron cresting. Three- and four-storey school extensions to west of c.1921. Terminal tower, oriels, clasping buttresses framing single-bay advanced corner towers. Snecked rock-faced granite walls. Disused annexes to north. Further multiple-bay four-storey institutional blocks to west with granite walls and brick dressings to openings.
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10599/7365
Appears in Collections:	National Inventory of Architectural Heritage Collection Published Items

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