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Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, with windbreak porch to front. Pitched rounded thatched roof with netting restraint and timber and metal rope stays to eaves, smooth rendered chimneystacks to gables with stepped coping and terracotta pots. Flat concrete roof to porch. Smooth rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one horned timber sash and timber casement windows, and painted stone sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber door. Building constitutes part of Clachan settlement of Inishnaneill with a series of associated thatched dwellings to south (40901126) and north-west (40901124).

A simple thatched house, recently renovated and now in fine condition, it is a good example of its type and a valuable addition to the architectural heritage of the area. The rounded pitched roof, designed to minimise the impact of high winds, demonstrates a subtle adaptation of thatch roof construction, to accommodate local climatic conditions in exposed areas such as Inishowen. The house forms part of a small clachan settlement, called 'Ard' on the Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map of c. 1837. Whilst some of the original structures are in a derelict state, the group remains a good example of a clachan settlement and of domestic vernacular architecture.