House in Ballymacarry, County Donegal

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Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820, with windbreak porch to front, and modern single-storey extension to rear. Rounded pitched thatched roof with netting restraint and timber and metal rope stays to eaves, smooth rendered chimneystacks to gables with rendered coping; flat stone roof to porch. Smooth rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with replacement two-over-two horned timber sash windows and painted sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement battened timber door, and stone threshold. Set within own grounds with smooth rendered boundary wall. Detached ruined, formerly thatched single-storey rubble outbuilding to north.

A vernacular thatched house, recently restored for modern use. Thatched buildings, although still relatively common in Inishowen, nationally are becoming increasingly rare, making their survival a matter of importance. It forms part of a small vernacular settlement which is marked and named on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837. The attractive setting adds to its appeal and appreciation.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 40901242

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