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dc.contributor.otherNational Inventory of Architectural Heritageen_IE
dc.coverage.spatial---Rathfarnhamen_IE
dc.coverage.temporal1838en_IE
dc.date.accessioned2011-08-11T02:01:25Z-
dc.date.available2011-08-11T02:01:25Z-
dc.date.copyrightReproduced with kind permission of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. South Dublin Libraries do not own the reproduction rights to this image. If you wish to reproduce this image see contact details at http://www.buildingsofireland.ieen_IE
dc.date.issued2002-01-01en_IE
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10599/7365-
dc.descriptionDetached 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.en_IE
dc.formatJPEGen_IE
dc.language.isoEnglishen_IE
dc.publisherDepartment of the Environment, Heritage and Local Governmenten_IE
dc.relationNational Inventory of Architectural Heritage ID: 11216011en_IE
dc.subjectfour-storey multiple-bay former nunnery and schoolen_IE
dc.subjecttransomed windowsen_IE
dc.subjectformer Rathfarnham Houseen_IE
dc.subjectattic cruciform wingen_IE
dc.subjectchapelen_IE
dc.subjectbuttressesen_IE
dc.subjectoctagonal chimney stacksen_IE
dc.subjectSingle, twin and triple lancetsen_IE
dc.subjecttraceried windowen_IE
dc.subjectBattlemented turretsen_IE
dc.subjectbellcoteen_IE
dc.subjectRubble wallsen_IE
dc.subjectdormersen_IE
dc.subjectmullioned windowsen_IE
dc.subjecthexafoilen_IE
dc.subjectshouldered ogeesen_IE
dc.subjectBanded slate roof with cast-iron crestingen_IE
dc.subjectTerminal toweren_IE
dc.subjectclasping buttressesen_IE
dc.subjectorielsen_IE
dc.subjectrock-faced granite wallsen_IE
dc.subjectSnecked wallsen_IE
dc.subjectPatrick Byrneen_IE
dc.subjectJohn Benjamin Keaneen_IE
dc.subjectAugustus Welby Northmore Puginen_IE
dc.subjectWilliam Henry Byrneen_IE
dc.subjectC B Powell,en_IE
dc.titleLoreto Abbey, Grange Road, Rathfarnham, South Dublin Countyen_IE
dc.typeImageen_IE
dc.internal.visibility1en_IE
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