Survey Data
Reg No
30411914
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
House
Date
1780 - 1820
Coordinates
93139, 204940
Date Recorded
10/10/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800. Pitched roof having crow-step gables and roped rye thatch roof covering, now becoming ruinous. Remains of rubble limestone chimneystack. Rendered rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with timber frames now lacking windows and square-headed door opening with timber battened door. House sited back from road, having approach lane and field to front bounded by rubble limestone walls.
Appraisal
This building is one of only three thatched houses now remaining on Inis Meáin. Although its roof is becoming ruinous this house is an important reminder of a building tradition that is now almost totally replaced by modern concrete-walled structures.