A former lock keeper’s cottage on the Royal Canal in County Westmeath. Dating from c.1810 and adjacent to Lock Number 35, the cottage was built to a common plan and style by the Royal Canal Company as part of its development of the facility. Single storey and just one room deep on either side of the entrance, this modest residence is given architectural appeal thanks to the shallow arches into which door and windows sit. The house here shown was extended more recently, but the work appears to have been left incomplete and it now stands boarded up by the canal.

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