Roscrea (Tipperary)

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The Supermac's Building 2004
The Supermac's Building 2004

Terraced four-bay three-storey former hotel, built c.1860, now in use as restaurant with shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with triple timber-bracketed eaves and with cut sandstone chimneystack. Snecked cut sandstone walls with raised sandstone quoins, eaves cornice and sill-course. Timber sliding sash windows to upper floors, two-over-two pane within segmental-arch openings to first floor and two-over-pane in depressed-arch openings with raised keystones to second. Timber shopfront comprising fluted pilasters, consoles, fascia and cornice with plate glass windows and timber half-glazed door.

It was once The Royal Hotel and shows up in the 1888-1913 Ordnance Survey Map for the first time.  Before being part of the Supermac's Company, it was also a restaurant and chip shop owned by the Fusco Family.

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