elphin local area plan 2009 - 2015 - Roscommon County Council

Chapter 6: Built and Natural Heritage
68 An attractive shopfront. 66-71 Another historic terrace
which steps down the street and
diminishes in scale.
72 This building is significant in
its own right but is also very
important in views from the east.
The area in front of the Cathedral
and graveyard is landscaped with
a famine cauldron and a water
feature. The graveyard however is
in dire need of maintenance.
The south side of Main Street ends with the landscaped park in front of the Cathedral which boasts very
fine iron gates to the graveyard.
Main Street ACA – North side
Main Street opens in the east on its north side with the former Grammar School and the associated
master’s residence. Both are set back off the street behind very fine iron railings and gates. Next to them is
the builder’s yard complex featuring an Art Deco façade. Several terraces follow with a variety of twostorey
buildings but all with rendered elevations and with many natural slate roofs surviving. Of particular
note are the pair of two-and-a-half-bay two-storey buildings which include Cryan’s mosaic tiled shopfront
– there is likely to be medieval fabric within these structures. The three-bay building to the east of them is
also full of character. Dockery’s shopfront with distinctive styling evokes the desire for modernity
prevalent in the mid-twentieth century. The more urban streetscape is terminated by the terrace of threestory
buildings - the end one which retains many original features and a beautiful decorative overlight to
the front door is considered significant enough to merit protected structure status.
26, 27 28 Protected Structures and Buildings of interest on the north side of Main Street.
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