Overview
house — MILLTOWN is recorded as house in Monaghan. Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c.1840, with windbreak to entrance, and modern extensions to rear. Hipped thatched roof, re-thatched c.2002 with wheaten straw, block ridge and red brick chimneystack.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c.1840, with windbreak to entrance, and modern extensions to rear.
People and work
The saved account records: Hipped thatched roof, re-thatched c.2002 with wheaten straw, block ridge and red brick chimneystack.
How it changed
The saved account records: Pitched slate roof to rear extension.
What survives
The saved account records: Single-storey outbuilding extends to north-west from house, with pitched corrugated-iron roof, rendered walls and square-headed openings.
Why it mattered
house — MILLTOWN matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This thatched house at Milltown is a good surviving example of County Monaghan's vernacular architecture. Although the house has been modernised and extended to the rear it retains its basic original plan and structure. The house was re-thatched c.2002 with wheaten straw but was originally thatched using oaten straw and flax, although the decorative block ridge of the roof is not traditional to the county. 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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