Overview
Church View — Ballymacward is recorded as house in Galway. Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, having single-storey lean-to porch addition of c.1920 to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to gables, stone copings and cast-iron rainwater goods.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, having single-storey lean-to porch addition of c.1920 to rear.
People and work
The saved account records: Pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to gables, stone copings and cast-iron rainwater goods.
How it changed
The saved account records: Lime-rendered random rubble stone walls.
What survives
The saved account records: House set back from road with modern outbuildings and farmyard to rear and lime rendered boundary wall.
Why it mattered
Church View — Ballymacward matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This attractive farmhouse is finished with traditional lime render and limewash and has been relatively unaltered over the years. Intact houses of this style are becoming rare in the Irish landscape and are often treated to unsympathetic alterations. This example retains simple proportions and exhibits some of the characteristics of vernacular architecture. 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
- Grave Yard — Ballymacwardmonument0.2 miles
- Ballymacward Cemeterymemorial0.2 miles
- Church in Ballymacwardmonument0.2 miles
- Corn Mill — Whiteparkmonument0.3 miles
- Ballymacward Bridgebuilding0.3 miles
- Mapped cemetery — County Galwaymemorial0.5 miles
- R. C. Chapel — Alloon Uppermonument0.5 miles
- Catholic Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul — Ballymacwardbuilding0.5 miles
- water pump — Ballymacwardbuilding0.6 miles
- handball alley — Ballymacwardbuilding0.6 miles
- Fairy fort / ringfort in Annagh (kilconnell By.)monument0.6 miles
- Cloth and Corn Mill (in ruins) — Alloonbaunmonument0.6 miles
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