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At the end of a laneway, in mixed pasture and tillage. Described by Ó Danachair (1966-7, 243-6) as a fine specimen of a “Thatched Mansion”, or large two-storied thatched house, which was common as the dwelling of prosperous farmers and lesser gentry in the 17th and 18th-centuries. It was originally a traditional direct entry house, and was built before 1717. There are two large rooms each, on ground and first floor, divided by partitions, and access to first floor-level was originally by means of a ladder. There are fireplaces in each room in the gable walls, and there is a built-in oven in the kitchen There is a second two-storey thatched house with an apparently similar layout c. 300m to the NNE in the same townland, which is not mentioned by O’Danachair. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 12 November 2013