House in Cloonageeher

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Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1800, with projecting gabled porch to the front elevation (south) and flat-roofed single-storey extension to rear (north). Pitched natural slate roof with three cut limestone chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth and with dressed limestone quoins to the corners at the east end. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and cut limestone sills. Square-headed door opening to front face of porch with timber battened door and overlight. Rendered wall to west of site with carved limestone heads and wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Outbuilding to south of site having roughly dressed sandstone walls and pitched corrugated-metal roofs. Set within a small group of houses/former clachan, close to the border with County Leitrim and the Rinn River. Rendered boundary walls and wrought-iron gates to site. Carved stone heads, c. 1950, to top of boundary wall to south of house.

This vernacular house retains much of its earlier character and fabric. The dressed limestone quoins help to elevate this building above many of its contemporaries of a similar date and type in County Longford. The spacing of the window openings suggest that this building was extended to the west at some stage. Modest in scale and form, this farmhouse exhibits the simple and functional form of traditional building in Ireland. The associated outbuildings make this an interesting group of traditional farm buildings. The single-storey outbuilding to the south is well-built and contributes to the setting. The house is the best surviving structure in a cluster of buildings and houses that originally formed a clachan or nucleated settlement. The carved stone heads were carved by two local old men about 50 years ago in their own likenesses (local information).

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 13400403

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