Survey Data
Reg No
40403410
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Farm house
Date
1790 - 1830
Coordinates
271318, 294873
Date Recorded
24/07/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Attached three-bay single-storey lobby-entry vernacular house, built c.1810, with projecting windbreak. Separate two-bay single-storey dwelling attached to north end. Now disused. Pitched corrugated metal roof with rendered chimneystack to north gable wall and evidence of former chimneystack to centre. Exposed random rubble stone walls with surviving traces of roughcast render. Six-over-three timber sash window to northern bay with two-over-two timber sash window to extension, both having stone sills. Timber sheeted entrance door. Timber settle bed and open hearth to interior. Set at angle to road with single-storey detached outbuilding set at right angle forming loosely triangular yard with detached outbuilding forming south side backing onto road. Single-arch stone bridge to east.
Appraisal
An execellent example of a traditional farmstead of formerly thatched buildings in a scattered layout, with a small two-room dwelling opening directly to the farmyard and an attached single-room dwelling probably for a farmhand. The house retains its original form, with some interior features including an increasingly rare example of a settle bed, a particularly Irish item of traditional furniture. Despite its decayed condition the group makes a strong contribution to the rural environment, and contributes to our understanding of rural settlement in Ireland from the eighteenth century up to the middle decades of the twentieth century.