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The roof at Ballytarsna Castle was constructed by:
Paul Price
Woodwrights
Dun Laoghaire
County Dublin
Ireland
Telephone: +353 (0) 1 2809 887
e-mail:
woodwrights@iolfree.ie
Final assembly and installation of the roof on Ballytarsna Castle
The top of the tower house ready for the new roof
What we started with
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Ballytarsna Castle
Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland
The Story of the Roof in Photographs
A Masterpiece of Traditional Timber Framing and Scribe Carpentry
What we started with
The top of the tower house ready for the new roof
Click on the links below for other photographs of the roof project
Final assembly and installation of the roof on Ballytarsna Castle
The roof at Ballytarsna Castle was constructed by:
Paul Price
Woodwrights
Dun Laoghaire
County Dublin
Ireland
Telephone: +353 (0) 1 2809 887
e-mail:
woodwrights@iolfree.ie
The Story of the Roof in Photographs - Main Page
Scribing wind braces
into roof-plane frame
Paul with the assembled upper roof
in the Woodwrights workshop.
Scribing an upper truss
Paul Price, Traditional Timber Framer
Constructing the "half-hipped, three bay, arch braced/crown post roof with doubled collars" which was scribe-built in his Woodwrights workshop
October 2001