Waterbarrack Hill, The Butts, Kilkenny City
Top photograph and text from http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KK®no=12005015
1945 - 1955
Pair of mass-concrete handball alleys, c.1950. Unpainted mass-concrete walls with square-headed door openings having no fittings, and rendered rounded coping having iron posts supporting iron mesh panels. Set back from line of road.
A pair of handball alleys representing an element of the cultural nation-building of the early Irish Republic while forming part of the vernacular heritage of County Kilkenny on account of the status as a building type indigenous to Ireland. Imbued with a pared-down functional, almost Brutalist quality the handball alleys make a distinct impression in the streetscape of Water Barrack.
Remaining photographs Á.Ryan
20 August 2008
Kilkenny City - Waterbarrack Hill / The Butts
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