Further to Monday’s piece on The Argory, County Armagh, (see Where Time Stands Still « The Irish Aesthete), to the north of the house and yards is an expansive lawn overlooking the adjacent river Blackwater. This concludes in a long, curved rampart of rock-faced masonry, at either end of which stands a little, square pavilion. While sloping ground means one sits higher on a bastion above the path below than does the other, the pair otherwise have the same decorative features, such as rusticated quoins and pyramidal roofing with central polygonal chimneystack. They are, to use an Irishism, just dotey*
*Dotey: meaning adorable or charming.
Very nice. Reminds me of the square pavilions commonly seen at the gates to grand buildings in France, though admirably translated to the bucolic rustic setting here with touches like the rounded rustication.
Do the doted buildings have a function?
dotey is the word .