House in Owenteskiny, County Donegal

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Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular farmhouse, built c.1860, with bed outshot to rear, and opposed doorways. Rye-straw thatched roof with netting over, roped to iron rod and pegs to eaves and stone pegs to gables; lacking chimneystacks, but has two pots. Rendered walls, roughcast to gables and smooth-rendered to long walls, with projecting plinth course. Square-headed windows openings with painted stone sills and replacement timber casement windows, and timber battened door. Interior has timber panelled ceiling and timber battened internal doors with moulded surrounds. Two-bay two-storey outbuilding at right angle to house with pitched corrugated-iron roof, rubble stone walls roof, square-headed openings and external rubble stone steps leading to first floor.

This modest vernacular house retains its original form and many original features, including a roped-thatch roof whose materials have been sourced locally, a rear bed outshot and opposed doorways, all typical features and exemplifying interesting features of the vernacular heritage of Dún na nGall [County Donegal]. The outbuilding is also typical of the region and enhances the setting of the house.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 40908101

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