Survey Data
Reg No
16402801
Rating
National
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Farm house
In Use As
Heritage centre/interpretative centre
Date
1770 - 1790
Coordinates
296488, 191062
Date Recorded
12/08/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey direct entry farmhouse, built c.1780, with single-bay portion to the north end reconstructed in 1992. The house, which was the scene of battle between government forces and United Irishmen in February 1799, is now a visitor centre. The walls are constructed in coursed rubble and whilst the pitched roof is thatched and has whitewashed rubble chimneystacks. The entrance consists of a timber tongue and groove half door whilst the small window openings are flat-headed and have replacement "pivot" timber windows. Internally there are three rooms opening off each other, with whitewashed walls, earthen floors and exposed roughly-hewn replacement roof timbers. The farmhouse is set within a small rural enclosure with dry stone walls.
Appraisal
Small vernacular farmhouse of the mid to later 18th century whose fabric was renewed in the later 20th-century. The farmhouseis a National Monument in the care of the Office of Public Works.