Glin Castle

Country house in Limerick, Ireland, dating from 1670–1800

Detached eight-bay three-storey country house, built c. 1790, comprising full-height curved bows to end bays of the front elevation, full-height three-sided bows with crenellated porch to garden (south) elevation. Sixteen-bay two-storey wing to west, built in the late seventeenth century/early eighteenth century, having full-height canted bay and three-stage square-plan tower to garden elevation. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, crenellations to roofline and limestone eaves course. Roughcast rendered walls. Blind cross loops to west wing, west elevation and to full-height canted bay and tower to west wing, garden elevation. Square-headed openings having bipartite four-pane fixed windows with carved transoms over four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills throughout. Square-headed opening to west elevation, first floor with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window. Round-headed opening to west elevation with Y-tracery eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash window. Square-headed openings to second floor full-height canted bays, rear elevation having six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows, those to first floor having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Those to ground floor with nine-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Venetian windows to centre-bay rear elevation comprising spoked fanlight over six-over-thr

Type:
Country house

Period:
1670–1800

Where:
Limerick, Ireland

Coordinates:
52.57°N, 9.29°W

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