Survey Data
Reg No
30410322
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
138584, 218893
Date Recorded
03/09/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having recent lean-to extension to rear (north) elevation. Pitched thatched roof having raised scolloped ridge, and rendered chimneystack. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having painted stone sills with replacement timber windows. Square-headed door opening having replacement half-glazed timber door. Rubble stone piers and boundary walls to front and side of site.
Appraisal
The low elevation and chimneystack, thick walls, and small openings are typical of the vernacular tradition in Ireland. Once common throughout the countryside and small villages, thatched buildings have become increasingly rare, and the survival of this example is notable.