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Farm house in Moonveen

Farm house
Farm house in Moonveen
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Detached four-bay two-storey thatched farmhouse, c.1800. Renovated, c.1900, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch added. In use, 1994. Now disused and derelict. Hipped roof with water reed thatch having rope work to ridge, and red brick Running bond chimney stack. Pitched (gabled) slate roof to porch…

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Detached four-bay two-storey thatched farmhouse, c.1800. Renovated, c.1900, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch added. In use, 1994. Now disused and derelict. Hipped roof with water reed thatch having rope work to ridge, and red brick Running bond chimney stack. Pitched (gabled) slate roof to porch with clay ridge tiles, rendered coping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Painted rendered walls over random rubble stone construction having sections of mud wall construction. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, one-over-one and two-over-two timber sash windows having one three-over-six timber sash window. Square-headed door opening with timber boarded half-door. Set back from road in own grounds with painted rendered plinth wall having rendered rounded coping, iron gate, and unkempt forecourt having iron double gates. (ii) Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding, c.1950, perpendicular to south possibly incorporating fabric of earlier range, pre-1840, on site with square-headed carriageway. Now disused. Pitched roof with corrugated-asbestos having concrete ridge, rendered coping, corrugated-Perspex rooflights, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted fine roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings with concealed dressings, and louvered panel fittings. Square-headed door opening with concealed dressings, and remains of timber door. Square-headed carriageway with concealed dressings, and painted corrugated-iron sliding door.
A modest-scale farmhouse representing an essential element of the vernacular legacy of County Kilkenny as identified by characteristics including the construction in locally-sourced materials, the informal arrangement of the openings, the thatched roof, and so on. Despite appearing to be in the process of being reclaimed by the surrounding landscape having rapidly deteriorated in the late twentieth century the original composition attributes nevertheless survive in place together with substantial quantities of the early fabric, thereby maintaining the integrity of a range making a pleasing visual impression in the locality.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12404519

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.megalithic.co.uk
  • David Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Vadim Manuylov, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Wendy Cutler, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Eric Hunt, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
  • Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
  • David Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.flickr.com
  • Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde; photographer not stated, Viking Ship Museum
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