Overview
house — GRAGAUGH is recorded as house in Tipperary. Detached four-bay single-storey house, built c. 1800, with lower outbuilding attached to north-east and having rendered windbreak to front. Thatched hipped roof with rendered chimneystack, pitched slate roof to extension.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Detached four-bay single-storey house, built c. 1800, with lower outbuilding attached to north-east and having rendered windbreak to front.
People and work
The saved account records: Thatched hipped roof with rendered chimneystack, pitched slate roof to extension.
How it changed
The saved account records: Pebbledashed walls with ruled rendered quoins and rendered eaves and plinth courses.
What survives
The saved account records: Outbuildings to yard with pitched slate roofs and pebbledashed walls.
Why it mattered
house — GRAGAUGH matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: Simple in design, this thatched house is an excellent example of Ireland's vernacular architecture. The recently rethatched roof exhibits a skilled craftsmanship and a trade that is becoming increasingly rare. The arrangement of the buildings in a U-plan around an enclosed yard highlights the main buildings direct association with the outbuildings as part of a group of domestic structures, which serve a working farm. 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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