Moorlough Shooting Lodge, Napple Road, Dunamanagh, Co Tyrone BT82 0RL

Moorlough Shooting Lodge is a detached two-storey rubble stone house built around 1850, located on the west side of Napple Road near Dunamanagh, County Tyrone. The building is now ruinous and no longer retains its interior.

The house is rectangular on plan, facing east, and is a two-bay structure with a pitched corrugated iron roof with cement skews. A pair of symmetrically-placed brick chimneysstacks and cast iron rainwater goods remain. The walling is constructed of random coursed and snecked rubble stone with rough-hewn squared quoins. Window openings are square-headed with stone lintels and sills and redbrick reveals; timber frames were used throughout, with timber shutters originally fitted to first-floor openings. Ground-floor window openings are now partially blocked up in concrete block, with remnants of 3 over 3 timber sash windows visible.

The front elevation is symmetrical with a central gable-fronted entrance porch that projects substantially. The porch features a large round-arched opening formed in redbrick with a timber boarded floor and two concrete steps leading to a square-headed door opening within.

The south gable is blank and contains an elliptical arch formed in redbrick to ground floor level, now blocked up in stone, with a stone lintel to first floor, also blocked up in stone. The rear elevation is abutted by a lean-to structure with corrugated iron roof; three former window openings formed in redbrick are now blocked up in concrete block. The north gable has a segmental-arched former opening at first-floor level formed in redbrick, now blocked up in stone. At ground floor on this side is a three-sided canted bay constructed in stone with a ruined natural slate roof and square-headed window openings to each side with concrete lintels, redbrick reveals, and timber frames. Behind the bay is a further segmental arch formed in redbrick.

The house is accessed via a long curved lane opening onto Napple Road to the northeast. The quality masonry and pleasant symmetrical composition suggest a building of some consideration, though its original purpose remains uncertain.

Historical records show the building first appeared on the Second Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1854, identified as "Moorlough Shooting Lodge" (with Moor Lough itself shown a short distance away to the east). According to Griffith's Valuation, the original occupier was James Rouse, a sportsman, who leased the property from the Marquis of Abercorn. The Marquis later became the owner in fee. The property comprised a house, offices, and land—the surrounding land was turbary (turf-cutting rights) belonging to the Marquis of Abercorn. A marginal note in the valuation records stated that "the Marquis will pay all taxes as he wishes to preserve the game", confirming its use as a sporting lodge. The buildings were valued at £1 5s, later increased to £1 10s. By 1886, James Rouse was leasing the lodge from the Duke of Abercorn (the estate having passed to the next generation), and he acquired ownership in fee in 1915 under early twentieth-century land purchase legislation. By 1934, William Rouse was the owner, and the building was described as a "house used as office" and valued at 15s.