farm house — CURRY (KIRWAN)

The saved account records: Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1894.

The saved account records: Replacement pitched reed thatch roof of collared timber construction with remains of rope twist above exposed hazel or sally lattice stretchers to raised ridge having exposed scallops, rendered chimney stack having "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta pots, and shuttered concrete coping to gables.

The saved account records: Coursed rubble limestone battered walls with squared limestone flush quoins to corners.

The saved account records: Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and reinforced concrete lintels framing replacement two-over-two timber sash windows having exposed sash boxes.

farm house — CURRY (KIRWAN) 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 integral component of the nineteenth-century vernacular heritage of south County Mayo by such traits as the alignment perpendicular to the road; the rectilinear direct entry plan form; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone displaying a battered silhouette; and the high pitched roof showing a replenished thatch finish. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original or sympathetically replicated fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a farmhouse making… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.