Historic Clonmel building to reopen this week after extensive restoration

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2003 / June 25 2003: Historic Clonmel building to reopen this week after extensive restoration

The Irish Times

The historic Main Guard building in Clonmel will reopen this week after almost 10 years of painstaking restoration. The 328-year-old building, with its imposing clock tower, was in a very poor state of repair before it was closed in 1987. Built by the first Duke of Ormond, James Butler, in 1675, the Main Guard at one stage served as a courthouse in the Co Tipperary town. Stone believed to have come from a 12th-century Cistercian abbey at Inislounaght was used in its construction.

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