Overview
house — CARRICKAFODAN is recorded as house in Donegal. Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1860, with windbreak porch to front. Rounded straw thatched roof with netting restraint and timber and metal rope stays to eaves, flat concrete roof to porch.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1860, with windbreak porch to front.
People and work
The saved account records: Rounded straw thatched roof with netting restraint and timber and metal rope stays to eaves, flat concrete roof to porch.
How it changed
The saved account records: Painted rubble stone walls with smooth rendered walls to porch.
What survives
The saved account records: Roughcast rubble walls and gate-piers to west with strap iron gates to road.
Why it mattered
house — CARRICKAFODAN matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: An attractive thatched vernacular house, surviving in fine condition, a good example of a type once common in the Irish countryside but now becoming increasingly rare. The retention of integral window and door fittings enhances its significance. 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.
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