Overview
house — GRELLAGH is recorded as house in Sligo. Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1825. Single-storey flat-roofed extension c. 1990 to north (rear).
Why it was built
The saved account records: Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1825.
People and work
The saved account records: Single-storey flat-roofed extension c. 1990 to north (rear).
How it changed
The saved account records: Reed-thatched roof, raised scalloped ridge, squat painted smooth-rendered chimneystacks with stepped capping.
What survives
The saved account records: Small garden to south, low rubble stone boundary wall to road, farmyard to north, Donegal Bay further to north.
Why it mattered
house — GRELLAGH matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This neat thatched house has been re-thatched with a non-traditional crested ridge. Sash windows and channelled quoins assist in preserving something of a vernacular feeling. 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.
Places near here
- Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Derryduffmonument0.5 miles
- St. Patricks Well — Bunduffmonument0.5 miles
- Saint Patricks Wellwaterfall0.5 miles
- House — indeterminate date in Lisgoolmonument0.5 miles
- Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lisgoolmonument0.5 miles
- Hut site in Lisgoolmonument0.5 miles
- Indicated — Bunduffmonument0.5 miles
- House — indeterminate date in Bunduffmonument0.5 miles
- Field boundary in Derryduffmonument0.5 miles
- Indicated — Castlegal (carbury By., Cliffony North Ed)monument0.6 miles
- Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Castlegal (carbury By., Cliffony North Ed)monument0.7 miles
- Embanked enclosure — Knockbrackmonument0.7 miles
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