Overview
house — Mitchells Town is recorded as house in Donegal. Detached four-bay single-storey with attic vernacular house, built c. 1860, with porch to rear. Pitched slate roof with gable ended red brick chimneystacks, clayware ridge tiles, rendered gable coping and cast-iron rainwater goods.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Detached four-bay single-storey with attic vernacular house, built c. 1860, with porch to rear.
People and work
The saved account records: Pitched slate roof with gable ended red brick chimneystacks, clayware ridge tiles, rendered gable coping and cast-iron rainwater goods.
How it changed
The saved account records: Roughcast rendered walls with stone eaves course.
What survives
The saved account records: Set within own grounds with hedge and garden to front, remains of red brick shed to west and whitewashed rubble stone wall with sloping rendered coping and red brick piers with pyramidal coping and cast-iron gates to the south-east.
Why it mattered
house — Mitchells Town matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A curious vernacular house retaining its original fenestration. There is a former smithy to the east. The cast-iron gates to the front and those at the entrance are the same and may have been made at the smithy. 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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