farm house

Detached five-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1838, originally four-bay single-storey. Extended, pre-1894, producing present composition. Reroofed, 2000/6. Pitched roof with part chicken wire-covered replacement reed thatch, pressed iron ridge above exposed steel lattice stretchers to decorative raised ridge having blind scallops, limewashed dwarf chimney stack having stringcourse below capping, and rendered coping to gables. Limewashed lime rendered battered walls over coursed rubble limestone construction with hammered or rough hewn limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with rough hewn limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed lintels framing replacement glazed timber panelled doors. Interior including kitchen retaining hearth, timber boarded opposing door openings, and timber boarded vaulted ceiling. Set perpendicular to road with limewashed piers to perimeter having concrete capping supporting flat iron "farm gate".

A farmhouse identified as an important component of the vernacular heritage of south County Mayo by such traits as the alignment perpendicular to the road; the lengthy direct entry plan form; the construction in unrefined local fieldstone displaying a battered silhouette; the disproportionate bias of solid to void in the massing; and the high pitched roof showing a replenished thatch finish: meanwhile, a comparison of the first (surveyed 1838; published 1840) and second (surveyed 1894; published 1896) editions of the Ordnance Survey clearly illustrates the continued linear development of the farmhouse in the later nineteenth century.