Overview
Angela's Cottage — Cappagh is recorded as house in Limerick. Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1790, having slightly projecting end-bay to front (east) elevation and two-bay single-storey extension to rear (west) elevation. Hipped and pitched thatched roof with red brick chimneystacks.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1790, having slightly projecting end-bay to front (east) elevation and two-bay single-storey extension to rear (west) elevation.
People and work
The saved account records: Hipped and pitched thatched roof with red brick chimneystacks.
How it changed
The saved account records: Square-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills.
What survives
The saved account records: Square-headed opening having timber battened door.
Why it mattered
Angela's Cottage — Cappagh matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This house is an excellent example of the Irish vernacular building tradition. Although extended to the rear and modernized, the original form of the house is still evident, while the stepped roofline has a particularly pleasing effect. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
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- Partially outlined — Ballyadam (connello Lower By.)monument0.1 miles
- Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Callowmonument0.3 miles
- Indicated — Cappaghmonument0.3 miles
- Excavation — miscellaneous in Doohyle Moremonument0.4 miles
- Curraheen House — Cappaghbuilding0.4 miles
- Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cappaghmonument0.4 miles
- Saint James's Catholic Church — BALLYHOMOCKbuilding0.4 miles
- Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Doohyle Moremonument0.5 miles
- Indicated — Ballyhomockmonument0.5 miles
- Cappagh Castle (in ruins) — Cappaghcastle0.6 miles
- Cappagh Castlecastle0.6 miles
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