Two water towers (Monaghan (Muineachán)) | listed building / architectural heritage, 1860s construction

 water tower, listed building / architectural heritage, 1860s construction

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Two square-plan water towers with cast-iron water storage tanks, built 1867, as part of former Monaghan Lunatic Asylum, to designs by Dublin architect and civil engineer John McCurdy. On north-west has lettering 'GEORGE CONNELL CONTRACTOR MONAGHAN' in raised lettering cast into north-west side of tank while south-east tank has 'ROSS & MURRAY DUBLIN 1867' cast in all sides. Windows paired on three elevations of towers, with square heads over narrow parallel openings having four-pane fixed timber frames and stone sills. Square-headed doorways to elevations that face each other, having sheeted timber doors. Tanks were originally situated at highest point of hospital site beside boundary which is no longer extant.