Overview
house — Tynagh is recorded as house in Galway. Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house with attic, built c.1800, having flat-roof porch to front (north) elevation. Pitched thatched roof with low rendered chimneystack.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house with attic, built c.1800, having flat-roof porch to front (north) elevation.
People and work
The saved account records: Pitched thatched roof with low rendered chimneystack.
How it changed
The saved account records: Roughcast rendered walls to front and rear elevations, and smooth rendered to side elevations, with smooth rendered plinth course.
What survives
The saved account records: Square-headed window openings with stone sills and replacement timber windows, those to west gable having render surrounds.
Why it mattered
house — Tynagh 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 is a good example of vernacular building. It is located at a focal point within the village of Tynagh and is one of a relatively small number of the type in this part of the county. It adds significantly to the variety of the district's built heritage. The irregularly placed openings and the low chimneystack are typical of vernacular buildings. 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.
Places near here
- Burying Ground — Tynaghmonumentunder 0.1 miles
- Church in Tynaghmonument0.1 miles
- Mapped graveyard — County Galwaymemorial0.1 miles
- Graveyard in Tynaghmonument0.4 miles
- Derrywillin Ho. — Tynaghmonument0.4 miles
- Spring Garden Ho. — Spring Gardenmonument0.4 miles
- Designed landscape feature in Redparkmonument0.4 miles
- Indicated — Ballydonagh (leitrim By.)monument0.6 miles
- Indicated — Derrybeg (leitrim By.)monument0.6 miles
- post box — QUARRYHILLbuilding0.8 miles
- Tynagh Parochial Hall — QUARRYHILLbuilding0.8 miles
- Saint Lawrence's Catholic Church — LISSANARD WESTbuilding0.8 miles
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