Overview
Attymon House is recorded as house in Galway. Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, with flat-roofed entrance porch to front elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, and with cut stone cornice to porch.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, with flat-roofed entrance porch to front elevation.
People and work
The saved account records: Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, and with cut stone cornice to porch.
How it changed
The saved account records: Square-headed window openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows having cut-stone sills and louvred external shutters.
What survives
The saved account records: Double-leaf cast-iron gates to road with carved stone piers with rubble stone quadrant walls, rubble stone terminating piers, and rubble stone boundary walls.
Why it mattered
Attymon House matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: The simple symmetrical arrangement of the windows creates a pleasing elevation. Its use as presbytery in the early twentieth century adds interest and the retention of original materials gives this house a pleasing patina of age. 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.
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