Overview
house — DROMINBOY UPPER is recorded as house in Limerick. Detached three-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house, built c. 1770, with lean-to to front (north-west) elevation and adjoining two-bay single-storey outbuilding to north-east. Pitched thatched roof having rendered chimneystack.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Detached three-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house, built c. 1770, with lean-to to front (north-west) elevation and adjoining two-bay single-storey outbuilding to north-east.
People and work
The saved account records: Pitched thatched roof having rendered chimneystack.
How it changed
The saved account records: Single-pitched slate roof to lean-to.
What survives
The saved account records: Pair of square-profile rendered piers to north-west with render caps and rendered boundary walls terminating in second pair of piers.
Why it mattered
house — DROMINBOY UPPER matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This house forms an important element of the vernacular heritage of County Limerick, as identified by attributes such as the long, low massing and thatched roof. Despite additions that incorporate an existing outbuilding, the house presents an early aspect with much of the original form intact, including the window arrangements, which retain an informal quality. 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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