Overview
house — BELCRUIT is recorded as house in Donegal. Detached two-storey house, built c.1910, having three-bay front elevation and five-bay rear elevation, with three-bay single-storey building, possibly former house, attached to north end. Pitched fibre-cement tiled roof on raised eaves course with replacement rainwater goods, and with smooth-rendered chimneystacks to gable ends
Why it was built
The saved account records: Detached two-storey house, built c.1910, having three-bay front elevation and five-bay rear elevation, with three-bay single-storey building, possibly former house, attached to north end.
People and work
The saved account records: Pitched fibre-cement tiled roof on raised eaves course with replacement rainwater goods, and with smooth-rendered chimneystacks to gable ends
How it changed
The saved account records: pitched fibre-cement tiled roof to adjoining building.
What survives
The saved account records: Set on elevated site, parallel to and set back from road with low stone boundary wall, and having private garden to rear.
Why it mattered
house — BELCRUIT matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This simple house is made elegant by the applied render treatment of its openings, and by the use of margined timber sash windows. Its quite different elevations add architectural and visual interest. 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
- Mapped cemetery — County Donegalmemorial0.3 miles
- Saint Mary's Catholic Church — BELCRUITbuilding0.3 miles
- Altar (Site of) — Béal Na Cruitemonument0.3 miles
- Altar (Site of) — Cionn Caslachmonument0.4 miles
- foot bridge — ARDUN, DOREbuilding0.5 miles
- Oileán Muiríníisland0.6 miles
- house — An Chruit [Cruit Island]building0.8 miles
- Cruit Island Graveyardmemorial1.1 miles
- St. Bridget's Wellswaterfall1.1 miles
- St. Bridgets Wells — An Chruit Uachtarachmonument1.1 miles
- Inis Annaisland1.3 miles
- Mullaghderg Tower — Mullach Deargmonument1.3 miles
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