Survey Data
Reg No
30411025
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1880 - 1920
Coordinates
83509, 209412
Date Recorded
12/08/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey house with attic, built c.1900, having flat-roof lower single-storey extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with concrete copings to gables, and red-brick chimneystack having string course and coping. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having timber sliding sash windows, two-over-two pane to front and rear elevations, and one-over-one pane to upper gables. Garden to front has rubble limestone boundary walls and rubble limestone outbuilding with lean-to roof. House was birthplace in 1896 of writer Liam O'Flaherty.
Appraisal
This modest island house has retained all of the characteristics of its type, including its slate roof, brick chimneystack and timber sash windows. It also has cultural and historic interest, being the birthplace of one of the most renowned Irish writers in both the Irish and English languages.