House in Kintogher, County Sligo

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Detached four-bay single-storey thatched dwelling, built c. 1880. Flat-roofed porch with vestigial pediment with duck ornaments, single-storey flat-roofed extension to rear (south) c. 1970. Thatched roof, plain raised and scalloped ridge, painted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystack c. 1980, painted concrete skews. Painted smooth-rendered ruled-and-lined walling, painted projecting plinth. Square-headed window openings, painted sills, painted timber casement windows c.1990. Square-headed door opening, varnished timber door c. 1970 with six panels. Shed attached to west, pitched corrugated-iron roof. Outbuildings to south-west, gravelled frontage, dry stone boundary wall, isolated rural location, Ben Bulben to south.

This, superbly located, thatched house retains its original massing while having lost its original windows and entrance door.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 32400829

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