House on Crockaveela, Donegal

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Detached six-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, with windbreak porch to front, and two-bay single-storey thatched outbuilding to north-east. Rounded thatched roof with netting restraint and timber and metal rope stays to eaves, and smooth rendered chimneystacks with stepped cornices. Flat concrete roof to porch. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered margins and plinth. Random rubble walls to thatched outbuilding. Square-headed window openings with rendered patent surround, timber casement windows, and painted concrete sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement half-glazed timber panelled door. Detached single-storey outbuilding to north-east comprising of pitched corrugated-metal roof, roughcast rendered random rubble walls, and battened timber double-doors. Detached two-storey outbuilding to north comprising of pitched slate roof and roughcast rendered walls. Building set to roadside, within cluster of buildings formerly constituting a clachan settlement

A now disused property forming part of a vernacular settlement which is marked and named on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837. Its form and character remains evident, but its appreciation is threatened by its increasingly derelict state. 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 the Inishowen peninsula. Thatched buildings, although still relatively common in Inishowen, nationally are becoming increasingly rare, making their survival a matter of importance.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 40901241

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