House in Carrowblagh, County Donegal

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Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1780, with two-bay single-storey outbuildings to both ends with thatched and corrugated-metal roofs, modern two-bay single-storey extension to rear. Rounded thatched roof with netting restraint and metal rope stays to eaves, smooth rendered chimneystacks with stepped coping and terracotta pots. Smooth rendered and random rubble walls. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement uPVC door. Detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding to south-west comprising of pitched corrugated-cement roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, with roughcast rendered random rubble walls. Set within own grounds on elevated site. Extensive series of dry-stone walls to north and lining driveway to south. Strap-iron gate mounted on vernacular square-plan rubble gate piers to south.

Despite loss of original fenestration, this is a substantial thatched vernacular house. It may originally have been two attached houses. Although it poor condition it is a good example of a type that was once prevalent throughout the country but now becoming increasingly rare. The rounded pitched roof is designed to minimise the impact of high winds, a subtle adaptation of more common thatch detail to accommodate local climatic conditions in exposed areas such as Inishowen. A house is shown on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837, but on a smaller footprint.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 40901234

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