House in Ballyvockoge, County Limerick

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Detached three-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house, built c. 1850. Pitched thatched house with rendered chimneystack and render copings. Rendered walls. Rubble limestone walls to east gable. Square-headed openings having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills. Square-headed opening with timber panelled door. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to west. Single-pitched corrugated-iron roof. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed opening having timber battened door. Pair of round-profile rendered piers to south with rounded caps and single-leaf cast-iron gates. Render over rubble limestone boundary walls to site.

This simple vernacular thatched house exists largely in its original form. It is an increasingly rare example of the survival of a vernacular house in the Irish countryside.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21902017

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