House on Ballyglass, Galway

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Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1850 with windbreak to front (south) elevation, and with recent extension to rear. Hipped thatched roof with low cement rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth render to windbreak. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills and replacement timber windows. Blocked-up square-headed opening in rear wall. Square-headed replacement timber battened door to porch. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding to north with pitched corrugated-iron roof, rendered walls and square-headed openings. Four-bay single-storey outbuilding to east with pitched slate roof, rubble limestone walls and square-headed openings, with lean-to turf shed to north gable, latter having corrugated-iron roof. Cast-iron garden gate and double-leaf wrought-iron vehicular gates, set to rendered piers and rendered road boundary wall.

This thatched house and outbuildings are an excellent example of the Irish vernacular building tradition and use local of materials such as limestone and thatch, and corrugated-iron, to good effect. The house and related outbuildings make a positive contribution to the architectural heritage of the area due to its position on the roadside.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30412603

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