house

Detached two-storey four-bay vernacular house, built c.1780, with irregularly placed windows. Now vacant. Pitched slate roof, brick chimneystacks to gables, remaining of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast render over fieldstone and mud walls with brick around openings. Four-over-four timber sash windows to front and rear elevation with stone sills. Nine-pane fixed window in southern bay. Timber sheeted doors. Outbuildings to south and east, overgrown and in ruinous state.

A vernacular house of particularly strong character, retaining its historic form and many interesting features, including roughcast render with lime wash finish, historic sash windows, and sheeted doors. The irregular fenestration may be an indicator that the upper level is a later addition to a traditional single-storey farmhouse. Outbuildings were once attached to the end gables forming a long linear arrangement, with further outbuildings to the west and south, subdividing the farm yard into different areas. Access to the river to the north indicates some historic relationship to it and to the clustered settlement of Kilcreeny to the north, arranged around a flax mills at Kilcreeney Bridge.