Survey Data
Reg No
40900902
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
House
Date
1840 - 1880
Coordinates
231100, 446150
Date Recorded
23/09/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1860. Round pitched flax thatched roof with latticed restraining ropes and timber pegs, chimneystacks with clay pots to gables. Limewashed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings, timber-framed replacement casement windows. Square-headed door opening, replacement timber matchboard door. Single-bay outbuilding to south-west, round pitched flax thatched roof with latticed restraining ropes and timber pegs, rubble stone walls. Set within own grounds.
Appraisal
A good example of this vernacular type which has been adapted by refenestration. It represents an important survival, preserving a traditional local craft and a building type once much more common in the Irish countryside. It retains much that is of interest including rope and peg thatch which was a feature of Irish thatched houses in exposed locations particularly in the north-west of the country. Contributes character to its rugged and isolated surroundings. Local information has it that it was in use as a cobbler's over several generations.