Killaroo House

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1870, having projecting single-bay flat-roofed entrance porch to the centre of the front façade (north). Return to rear (south). Hipped natural slate roof with a pair of central rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth. Smooth rendered finish to projecting porch with moulded cornice over. Square-headed window openings with patent reveals, cut stone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Single fixed casement window to the first-floor over the entrance porch and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to rear return. Square-headed entrance to flat roofed porch having timber surround, incorporating two flanking fixed casement sidelights, with early timber panelled door with central fillet moulding. Yard to south has two rubble stone outbuildings with slate roofs and timber sheeted doors. Site is accessed from the north through pair of rubble stone gate piers supporting wrought-iron gates. Located to the south of Loughanavally and to the east of Boher.

An appealing and well-balanced house, of mid-to-late nineteenth-century date, which retains much of its early form. The symmetrical entrance front, the retention of the early sash windows and the detailing to the main doorcase give this building an architectural quality that makes it a welcome element in the rural landscape. Its form is typical of the many middle-sized farmhouses built in rural Ireland in the decades following the Great Famine (1845-50), few of which survive in as good condition as this example in Killeenagroagh. The two-over-two pane windows to the rear return are probably the original fenestration type of this building. The gate piers to the north complete the setting of this good quality composition.