Overview
house — DRUMAVILLE (TREMONE) is recorded as house in Donegal. Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, with windbreak porch to front, in use as outbuilding. Rounded pitched thatched roof with netting restraint and metal rope stays to eaves.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, with windbreak porch to front, in use as outbuilding.
People and work
The saved account records: Rounded pitched thatched roof with netting restraint and metal rope stays to eaves.
How it changed
The saved account records: Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls.
What survives
The saved account records: Single-bay single-storey outbuilding extension to north-west comprising of corrugated-metal roof and smooth rendered walls.
Why it mattered
house — DRUMAVILLE (TREMONE) matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: Although no longer inhabited, and despite the evident deterioration of the roof, this building has kept its intrinsic scale and form and its characteristic architectural details including timber sash windows. 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. Once very typical of Ireland’s rural built heritage, it now represents a type fast disappearing. The thatched outbuilding to north (40901239) adds significance as part of a group. The house is… 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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