Survey Data
Reg No
30411920
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Outbuilding
Date
1900 - 1940
Coordinates
94067, 204863
Date Recorded
10/10/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached single-bay single-storey vernacular outbuilding, built c.1920, having loft to east end. Possibly formerly dwelling house. Pitched roof with crow-step gables and roped rye straw thatched roof. Rubble limestone walls with square-headed openings, with timber battened door, openings having limestone lintels. Set back from road with garden to front 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.