Survey Data

Reg No

30411910


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Technical


Original Use

Outbuilding


Date

1900 - 1940


Coordinates

93495, 206321


Date Recorded

10/10/2009


Date Updated

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Description

Detached single-bay single-storey outbuilding, erected c.1920. Pitched roof having roped rye thatch. Rubble limestone walls with door opening to front, north-east, wall, having timber battened door. Stands at rear of small field bounded by rubble limestone walls.

Appraisal

This farm building is one of an interesting group of similar structures on Inis Meáin and of a wider group on the Aran Islands. The use and retention of thatch continues a long tradition of thatched roofing in Ireland and the occurrence of thatched outbuildings is also increasingly rare.