farm house — BALLYNAKILL (D. WT. BY.)

The saved account records: Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1841, on a rectangular plan.

The saved account records: Hipped water reed thatch roof with paired exposed stretchers to flush ridge having exposed scallops, rendered chimney stack (east) having stepped capping, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops.

The saved account records: Replacement cement rendered battered walls.

The saved account records: Square-headed door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door.

farm house — BALLYNAKILL (D. WT. BY.) matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A farmhouse identified as an important component of the vernacular heritage of County Waterford by such attributes as the rectilinear direct entry plan form; 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 showing a thatch finish. Having been well maintained, the form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, including a collection of traditional cottage furnishings, thus upholding the character or… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.