Overview
house — Ballyagran is recorded as house in Limerick. Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800, having later porch to front (south) and two-bay single-storey addition to side (east). Hipped thatched roof to house with artificial slate roof to porch.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800, having later porch to front (south) and two-bay single-storey addition to side (east).
People and work
The saved account records: Hipped thatched roof to house with artificial slate roof to porch.
How it changed
The saved account records: Pitched corrugated-iron roof to addition with uPVC rainwater goods.
What survives
The saved account records: Lined-and-ruled rendered walls throughout.
Why it mattered
house — Ballyagran matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This charming thatched house retains much of its historic form and character. Sympathetic renovations including casement windows that mimic sash windows complement the historic nature of this pleasing building. The building is an essential part of the streetscape of Ballyagran and is one of only two surviving thatched houses in this village. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
- Saint Michael's Catholic Church — Ballyagranbuilding0.2 miles
- presbytery/parochial/curate's house — Ballygranbuilding0.2 miles
- Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballyagranmonument0.2 miles
- Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballysallamonument0.3 miles
- Gobnet's Fortmonument0.5 miles
- Gobnets Fort - Hachured — Castletown (connello Upper By.)monument0.5 miles
- Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Drewscourt Eastmonument0.5 miles
- Saint Derivla's Wellwaterfall0.6 miles
- St. Derivlas Well — Castletown (connello Upper By.)monument0.6 miles
- Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Clooneemonument1.0 miles
- Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cappanantymonument1.0 miles
- Ballybane Bridge — BALLYBANE, DREWSCOURT EASTbuilding1.0 miles
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