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Conor's Cottage

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Conor's Cottage
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Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1897, with single-bay single-storey lean-to outshot (west). In ruins, 2000. "Restored", 2001[?], to accommodate occasional use. Replacement pitched Turkish reed thatch roof with exposed steel lattice stretchers to raised ridge having blind…

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Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1897, with single-bay single-storey lean-to outshot (west). In ruins, 2000. "Restored", 2001[?], to accommodate occasional use. Replacement pitched Turkish reed thatch roof with exposed steel lattice stretchers to raised ridge having blind scallops, cement rendered dwarf chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pot, and concrete coping to gables. Replacement cement rendered battered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings having rounded reveals framing replacement two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Interior including kitchen with timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled vaulted ceiling. Set back from road in landscaped grounds with cement rendered piers to perimeter supporting timber gate.
A farmhouse identified as an integral component of the nineteenth-century vernacular heritage of the rural environs of Ballyhean by such attributes as the rectilinear direct entry plan form featuring a characteristic outshot; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone displaying a feint battered silhouette; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof latterly showing a non-indigenous Turkish reed thatch finish.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31308917

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  • Maker not stated on source page, secretireland.ie
  • Tom Quinn, credited by Western People, www.westernpeople.ie
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