Survey Data
Reg No
30411925
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Outbuilding
Date
1900 - 1940
Coordinates
93769, 203881
Date Recorded
10/10/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Detached single-bay single-storey vernacular outbuilding, erected c.1920. Pitched roof with crow-step gables and roped rye straw thatch covering. Rubble limestone walls with square-headed door opening to west gable having limestone lintel. Sited in field having rubble limestone boundary walls, and with rubble limestone and concrete water collector to north.
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.