Brigidine Convent (Mountrath (Maighean Ratha)) | nunnery, listed building / architectural heritage

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Eleven-bay three-storey convent, dated 1885, with projecting porch to front and full-height gabled projecting end bays. Four-bay three-storey house, c.1810. Double-pitched slate roof with red clay ridge tiles, yellow brick chimneystacks and stone finials. Roughcast rendered walls with limestone quoins, red brick band to eaves, niches to gables with statues and datestone to porch. Slate-hung to gable to four-bay house. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills, rendered hood mouldings to end bays and single-pane timber sash windows. Pointed-arch door openings with glazed timber panelled double doors, block-and-start doorcase and timber panelled door with overlight. Interior not inspected. Set back from street in grounds shared with four-bay three-storey Georgian house, c.1810, six-bay two-storey building, c.1900, and chapel.