Broadford Carnegie Library

Library/archive in Limerick, Ireland, dating from 1915–1920

Detached two-bay single-storey Carnegie library, built in 1917, having breakfront porch and two-bay gable-fronted break front to front (south). Hipped slate roof, having pitched slate roof to gable-fronted break-front. Roughcast rendered chimneystack, timber clad eaves and cast-iron rainwater goods. Timber cornice with timber corbels to flat lead clad roof of porch. Roughcast rendered parapet wall to gable-fronted breakfront having tooled limestone coping. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth, having tooled limestone plaque surmounted by cornice to front elevation of breakfront. Ashlar limestone walls to porch. Square-headed window openings having tooled limestone sills, raised render surrounds and replacement multiple-pane timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with chamfered ashlar limestone surround to porch, having recent render approach with recent railing and replacement timber battened door. Rendered enclosing plinth wall having square-profile corner piers, render coping, and wrought-iron gate. Located on the western side of the village of Broadford.

Type:

Library/archive

Period:

1915–1920

Where:

Limerick, Ireland

Coordinates:

52.35°N, 8.98°W

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